Liam Hunt Blog

30 articles written so far...

26 February 2024

CSS Trick: Sliding background color with a CSS transition

How to add a sliding background effect to any div using a CSS transition.

CSS

7 January 2024

Extracting boundary data from OpenStreetMap

How to extract boundaries from OpenStreetMap to use in your projects. Get the Lat Long coordinates of any boundary in OpenStreetMap.

9 December 2023

A trick to fix Selenium “Element is not clickable at point” (C#)

Front-end tests are notoriously unreliable. This post describes a hacky trick I had to implement to make some selenium tests run and actually pass.

17 October 2023

Why I run

These are the reasons I run.

Life

1 October 2023

Detect changes in Notion with Azure Logic Apps

Detect changes in Notion without webhooks by using Azure Logic Apps. This blog is written in Notion so I needed an automatic way to redeploy it.

Notion

Azure

Cloudflare

29 July 2023

Upload to Cloudflare R2 in C#

How to upload files to Cloudflare R2 storage in C#. Using the SDK uploading files becomes easy.

Cloudflare

8 July 2023

Properly size images in Asp.Net with middleware

Resize and serve properly sized images in Asp.Net with middleware. Resize images on the fly to make your web apps faster.

AspNet

25 June 2023

Nuget restoring the wrong package from the wrong source

Nuget gets confused between feeds when packages are named and versioned exactly the same. This post goes over how to fix it with Nuget package source mappings.

17 June 2023

How to gzip compress and decompress in C#

How to Gzip compress and decompress data in C#. Gzip is use all over the web due to it being supported by web browsers.

10 March 2023

How to White Label ASP .NET Core with Middleware

How to white label an ASP NET core application using middleware. We replace the logo and colours for the white-labelled version of the app.

AspNet

2 March 2023

Gather .Net versions and Nuget packages in C#

Simple C# code to gather the .Net version and Nuget dependencies from all of your projects.

23 February 2023

View Google Search Console data in months

How to view your Google search console data in monthly increments instead of daily.

3 February 2023

Clone all repositories from Azure DevOps (Powershell or C#)

A quick PowerShell script to clone all repositories from Azure DevOps

Azure

15 January 2023

Useless software development books

I bought 2 of the most famous software books when I was new to software development. They were completely useless. I was told I needed to read these books to get good at development. What a load of nonsense.

Software Development

7 January 2023

There are only 2 types of software developers

We use a ridiculous number of different categories for software developer. I don’t care about any of them. The only thing I care about is what you’re focused on: Code or Customer?

Software Development