Declaration of VAR

Dark Tower

Весьма достойное кино. И значительно интереснее книг - я бросил читать где-то на пятом томе (невозможная тягомотина). Лютер - отличный Стрелок (вопреки воплям в интернетах). Удивительно видеть крайне низкие оценки на IMDb и всяких хипсторских экспертных сайтах. Я бы вообще поставил 8, но слишком сжато всё сняли, полтора часа это очень мало. Им надо было делать сериал.

Cineworld IMAX London

Last week I was in London and decided to use the opportunity and finally try the IMAX format - I never watched any movie in IMAX. And also last time I went to cinema theatre more than 5 years ago (guess why I stopped), and I wanted to give it one more try.

I chose the Cineworld Leicester Square cinema.

Telegram bot

On the 24th of June 2015 Telegram got bots, or, to be specific, Telegram Bot API. So, now my other problem about receiving server status can be solved much easier.

Initially I wrote this article in russian 🇷🇺, but having noticed that it’s one of the most visited pages in my blog, I decided to translate it to english.

VirtualBox on Mac OS with a fullscreen Linux-guest

In this article I’ll try to get into all (okay, maybe not all) possible troubles related to using a VirtualBox guest-machine with Linux, running on a Mac OS (High Sierra, 10.13) host. But actually it’s not about Mac OS and all the steps will be the same for Windows and Linux hosts too. But anyway.

The aim is to get a Linux guest-machine running in a fullscreen mode on a dedicated desktop (screen) with a decent performance.

OpenSearch in your .NET Core MVC project

OpenSearch is a way to add/integrate your website’s search engine to web-browsers. And here’s how to do such a thing with your .NET Core MVC project website.

Death Note 2017

Бря, хана Ведьмаку.

How to add reCAPTCHA to your .NET Core MVC project

If you have some views with inputs exposed to public access, especially if they are served via controller with [AllowAnonymous], then you most probably would like to add CAPTCHA to those views. Otherwise, you risk to get flooded with automated spam.

I decided to use reCAPTCHA from Google.

Ulysses has switched to subscription

As you might already know, Ulysses has switched to a subscription model. Here’s also their post on Medium.

You can host a .NET Core MVC app on Linux

Ya, rly.

VirtualBox port forwarding

A Windows host runs a VirtualBox guest Linux machine. And you want to connect to this Linux guest machine via SSH from your other PC (or Mac) remotely: