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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;

// CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

// Full-date notation as defined by RFC 3339, section 5.6, for example, 2024-03-28
string date1 = string.Format("{0:yyyy}-{0:MM}-{0:dd}", DateTime.Now);
Console.WriteLine(date1);

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Convert video to a Twitter-friendly format

Simple, but with minimum modification:

ffmpeg -i "input.mp4" -pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec libx264 "output.mp4"

Resizes the video and may better support encodings:

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Free PHP Webhosting

• https://www.infinityfree.com/
• https://x10hosting.com/

Inexpensive Webhosting

• https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ ($0.25)
• https://www.netcup.eu/ (~ $30 / year)
• https://www.manitu.de/webhosting/

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File Operations in C++

Reading a file into a string variable

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

fstream file("file.name.xml", fstream::in);

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PHP FFI - Using a C++ DLL with C bindings with MinGW-64

Requirements

• MinGW-64

Setup

On Windows:

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@echo off

winget list

winget uninstall "Solitaire & Casual Games"
winget uninstall "Microsoft Kontakte"
winget uninstall "Movies & TV"
winget uninstall "News"
winget uninstall "Get Help"
winget uninstall "Microsoft People"

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PHPStan rule to to disallow accidental assignments in conditionals

The url has changed:

https://odan.github.io/2023/01/12/phpstan-disallow-assign-in-conditional-rule.html

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MySqlMigrationSqlGenerator Example

dotnet add package MySql.Data.EntityFramework

using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Common;

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Creating a ASP.NET Core Web API from scratch

Requires .NET 8 SDK

dotnet new sln -o MyApi
cd MyApi

dotnet new webapi -o MyApi

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NES RAM map

CPU Memory

NES Mega Man 5

• $00B0: M. Buster - 00 to 9C (max)
• $00BD: Number of E energy tanks - 80 to 89
• $00BE: Number of M - 80 to 89
• $00BF: Number of lives - 00 to 09