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Developer and .NET enthusiast by day, Gamer and show binger by night.

How to hi-jack CEF applications

Automate CEF applications that didn't disable debugging

It's important to ensure that you disable debugging functionality before releasing to production. Password protecting your CEF application exe can be bypassed by users who know which arguments they should pass to the exe, which can enable users to bypass the security you put in place.

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SWTOR and Login Automation

How to use 1Password CLI and Power Automate to 1 click login

Power Automate should be installed already if you are on Windows 11. I created a brand new flow and named it 'SWTOR Launch'.

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1Password and SSH

Securing your dev environment

I've been using a Password manager for years now, however one thing which always annnoyed me was the lack of SSH support and having your Private key stored in the .ssh folder on your machine. Or you would have to manually generate your SSH key using Putty. Then you would upload your public key and make sure you never lost your private key since it was always stored in the .ssh folder unless you backed it up securely and then would put it back on a fresh install.

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