Node.js is getting more popular by the day. It breaks JavaScript free from the browser. I would love to auto start an application – much like a Windows service – without keeping a console window open. There are many services to wrap node applications into an executable, but I like to stick with just Node. This small trick will make your Node application windowless on Windows.
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Today we had a problem on the server: our app was causing the application pool to crash. Windows error reporting didn’t give a clear result of what was causing a stack overflow exception within the app. No stack-trace, no nothing. So how to solve a problem like this?
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MP3s are everywhere and back in 2014 I finally had a phone with enough storage to store a decent amount of them. I use MediaMonkey to add high resolution album covers and to rename the files in a predictable format: Artist – Album – # – Title. The only thing I was missing was a simple way of creating a M3U playlist: PowerShell to the rescue!
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Compare large files efficiently in PowerShell by checking their size first and then processing their contents in buffered chunks.
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PowerShell runs on .NET and uses the .NET regex engine, but PowerShell adds its own string semantics. Two independent failures can break a capture-group replacement: multiline matching and PowerShell interpolating `$1` before it reaches the regex engine.
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