Adding field support to MS PowerPoint

Author: smeans
Date: 2021-07-26
Tags: MSOffice, PowerPoint, VBA
Categories: Code, Useful Code

I’ve been working on a series of videos about an unpublished app of mine called FlipStream, and I wanted to easily insert some information about the current PowerPoint presentation on the first slide. Sadly, PowerPoint doesn’t have a generic field replacement function like Word does. So, either I type some stuff and have to remember […]

Manage your hosts file from the command line.

Author: smeans
Date: 2021-07-05
Tags: Python, Utilities
Categories: Code, Useful Code

When you’re a full-stack developer, you often find yourself mixing and matching destination hosts on your development system. Sometimes you need to run your development codebase against a test back-end server, sometimes you need to spoof the test back-end with your local code base. All of this switching back-and-forth can be tedious, so I wrote […]