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I’ve talked about how I love a nice pretty prompt in my Windows Terminal and made videos showing in detail how to do it. I’ve also worked with my buddy TooTallNate to put my real-time blood sugar into a bash or PowerShell prompt, but this was back in 2017.
Now that I’m “Team OhMyPosh” I have been meaning to write a Nightscout “segment” for my prompt. Nightscout is an open source self-hosted (there are commercial hosts also like T1Pal) website and API for remote display of real-time and near-real-time glucose readings for Diabetics like myself.
Since my body has an active REST API where I can just do an HTTP GET (via curl or whatever) and see my blood sugar, it clearly belongs in a place of honor, just like my current Git Branch!
Oh My Posh supports configurable “segments” and now there’s a beta (still needs mmol and stale readings support) Nightscout segment that you can setup in just a few minutes!
This prompt works in ANY shell on ANY os! You can do this in zsh, PowerShell, Bash, whatever makes you happy.
Here is a YouTube of Jan from OhMyPosh and I coding the segment LIVE in Go.
If you have an existing OhMyPosh json config, you can just add another segment like this. Make sure your Nightscout URL includes a secure Token or is public (up to you). Note also that I setup “if/then” rules in my background_templates. These are optional and up to you to change to your taste. I set my background colors to red, yellow, green depending on sugar numbers. I also have a foreground template that is not really used, as you can see it always evaluates to black #000, but it shows you how you could set it to white text on a darker background if you wanted.
{
"type": "nightscout",
"style": "diamond",
"foreground": "#ffffff",
"background": "#ff0000",
"background_templates": [
"{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#FFFF00{{ end }}",
"{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#FF0000{{ end }}",
"#00FF00"
],
"foreground_templates": [
"{{ if gt .Sgv 150 }}#000000{{ end }}",
"{{ if lt .Sgv 60 }}#000000{{ end }}",
"#000000"
],"leading_diamond": "",
"trailing_diamond": "\uE0B0",
"properties": {
"url": "https://YOURNIGHTSCOUTAPP.herokuapp.com/api/v1/entries.json?count=1&token=APITOKENFROMYOURADMIN",
"http_timeout": 1500,
"template": " {{.Sgv}}{{.TrendIcon}}"
}
},
By default we will only go out and hit your Nightscout instance every 5 min, only when the prompt is repainted, and we’ll only wait 1500ms before giving up. You can set that “http_timeout” (how long before we give up) if you feel this slows you down. It’ll be cached for 5 min so it’s unlikely to b something you’ll notice. The benefit of this new OhMyPosh segment over the previous solution is that it requires no additional services/chron jobs and can be setup extremely quickly. Note also that you can customize your template with NerdFonts. I’ve included a tiny syringe!
Next I’ll hope to improve the segment with mmol support as well as strikeout style for “stale” (over 15 min old) results. You’re also welcome to help out by watching our YouTube and submitting a PR!
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Yesterday Online PNG Tools smashed through 6.39M Google clicks and today it’s smashed through 6.40M Google clicks! That’s 10,000 new clicks in a single day – the smash train keeps on rollin’!
Online PNG Tools offers a collection of easy-to-use web apps that help you work with PNG images right in your browser. It’s like a Swiss Army Knife for anything PNG-related. On this site, you can create transparent PNGs, edit icons, clean up logos, crop stamps, change colors of signatures, and customize stickers – there’s a tool for it all. The best part is that you don’t need to install anything or be a graphic designer. All tools are made for regular people who just want to get stuff done with their images. No sign-ups, no downloads – just quick and easy PNG editing tools.
Online PNG Tools were created by me and my team at Browserling. We’ve build simple, browser-based tools that anyone can use without needing to download or install anything. Along with PNG tools, we also work on cross-browser testing to help developers make sure their websites work great on all web browsers. Our mission is to make online tools that are fast, easy to use, and that are helpful for everyday tasks like editing icons, logos, and signatures.
Online PNG Tools and Browserling are used by everyone – from casual users to professionals and even Fortune 100 companies. Casual users often use them to make memes, edit profile pictures, or remove backgrounds. Professionals use them to clean up logos, design icons, or prepare images for websites and apps.
Smash too and see you tomorrow at 6.41M clicks! 📈
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I was reading Gabby’s blog post about the new TypeScript/JavaScript project experience in Visual Studio 2022. You should read the docs on JavaScript and TypeScript in Visual Studio 2022.
If you’re used to ASP.NET apps when you think about apps that are JavaScript heavy, “front end apps” or TypeScript focused, it can be confusing as to “where does .NET fit in?”
You need to consider the responsibilities of your various projects or subsystems and the multiple totally valid ways you can build a web site or web app. Let’s consider just a few:
VS2022 brings JavaScript and TypeScript support into VS with a full JavaScript Language Service based on TS. It provides a TypeScript NuGet Package so you can build your whole app with MSBuild and VS will do the right thing.
NEW: Starting in Visual Studio 2022, there is a new JavaScript/TypeScript project type (.esproj) that allows you to create standalone Angular, React, and Vue projects in Visual Studio.
The .esproj concept is great for folks familiar with Visual Studio as we know that a Solution contains one or more Projects. Visual Studio manages files for a single application in a Project. The project includes source code, resources, and configuration files. In this case we can have a .csproj for a backend Web API and an .esproj that uses a client side template like Angular, React, or Vue.
Thing is, historically when Visual Studio supported Angular, React, or Vue, it’s templates were out of date and not updated enough. VS2022 uses the native CLIs for these front ends, solving that problem with Angular CLI, Create React App, and Vue CLI.
If I am in VS and go “File New Project” there are Standalone templates that solve Example 2 above. I’ll pick JavaScript React.
Then I’ll click “Add integration for Empty ASP.NET Web API. This will give me a frontend with javascript ready to call a ASP.NET Web API backend. I’ll follow along here.
It then uses the React CLI to make the front end, which again, is cool as it’s whatever version I want it to be.
Then I’ll add my ASP.NET Web API backend to the same solution, so now I have an esproj and a csproj like this
Now I have a nice clean two project system – in this case more JavaScript focused than .NET focused. This one uses npm to startup the project using their web development server and proxyMiddleware to proxy localhost:3000 calls over to the ASP.NET Web API project.
Here is a React app served by npm calling over to the Weather service served from Kestrel on ASP.NET.
This is inverted than most ASP.NET Folks are used to, and that’s OK. This shows me that Visual Studio 2022 can support either development style, use the CLI that is installed for whatever Frontend Framework, and allow me to choose what web server and web browser (via Launch.json) I want.
If you want to flip it, and put ASP.NET Core as the primary and then bring in some TypeScript/JavaScript, follow this tutorial because that’s also possible!
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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