Clint McMahon

Photos

Joshua Tree Photos

A few of my favorite pictures from the few hours we spent running around in the Joshua Tree National Park.

weather

Just about the warmest winter on record (so far)

I pulled the top ten warmest December, January and February months based on the average temperature for each of the months from the ACIS tool.

Azure B2C

Creating Azure B2C User Admin App

There isn't a good way for end users who are not Azure admins to update user information without logging into the Azure portal.

life

Friday, January 12, 2024

Yesterday I went to work from a coffee shop that I've never been but meaning to visit for a while. I met the owners ten years ago selling coffee at the Linden Hills Farmer's Market. Since then they've opened multiple locations and are the

Friday, December 22 2023

I'm writing this post to kick start my blogging habit. Hopefully it sticks this time. Lately I've been writing about how to fix bugs or set up environments, but the more I read about writing the more intrigued I am to make writing in public a

C#

FizzBuzz in C#

The comments on this Hacker News post generated a bunch of opinions on the ability for developers to solve a FizzBuzz problem. Specifically in a coding interview. I’ve never actually seen what the FizzBuzz problem was, so I had to look it up. In this blog post I solve

Armchair Expert

Worlds Colliding: Dr. Becky Kennedy on Armchair Expert and Our Journey with the Armchair Media Explorer

The recent episode of the Armchair Expert featured the Dr. Becky Kennedy, a renowned psychologist specializing in parenting, resonated deeply with us. It was a thrilling worlds colliding moment – the insightful world of Armchair Expert and the transformative parenting wisdom of Dr. Becky. Armchair Expert: A Platform for Meaningful Conversations

notes

Friday, November 17 2023

Good morning. A few notes that I wanted to record for this lovely fall Friday. 1. Near record warm has passed us and we’re back to normal cold fall. Should be great for saunaing. 2. Made a fantastic oat milk cortado this morning. Using regular Oatly blend, normally I

faa

Real-time FAA Flight Data Powering the JetTip Smart Alert System

Over the past year I’ve been working with JetTip to provide their smart alert system with real-time FAA flight data. We finally launched the service into production last month so I decided to write this blog post about the real-time FAA flight data powering the JetTip smart alert system.

hosting

How to Configure Cloudflare's Load Balancer Monitoring When Health of the Pool is Critical

I recently faced an issue where my Cloudflare managed API endpoint was functioning correctly—returning a 200 OK status when I hit the endpoint manually—but Cloudflare’s Load Balancer was reporting a “Critical” health status. After a lot of trial and error with some investigation, I found that the

hosting

How To Migrate WordPress Websites to WP Engine

This blog post outlines how to migrate a WordPress website from any hosting provider to WP Engine hosting account without access to source FTP site. The post focuses around utilizing the WP Engine Migration Assistant Plugin. WP Engine offers a specialized plug in to make WordPress migrations a pretty simple

docker

Moving Docker SQL Server databases between machines

In this blog post I'll show how I migrated my SQL Server databases between machines and Docker containers.

Armchair Expert

Armchair Expert Books

Or how to get the cover for a book programmatically. In the Armchair Expert Media Explorer is a website I built to track all the book, movies, documentaries, podcasts and shows that are discussed on Armchair Expert between the hosts, Dax and Monica, and their guests.

react native

React Native: Loaded "env" configuration for the "production" profile: no environment variables specified.

This is a post to describe a fix for an error in React Native, specifically an Expo Bare project, that looks like "Loaded "env" configuration for the "production" profile: no environment variables specified".

Armchair Media Explorer: Running list of all media

We’ve added a running list of all the recommended and mentioned books, songs, articles, podcasts, movies, documentaries and shows from each episode of Armchair Expert podcast to the Armchair Expert Media Explorer. Every media entry is separated by the media type so users can easily toggle between the different

development

How I completely destroyed a production database

This is a story about how I completely destroyed a production database, what I did to fix it and the lessons I learned that I carry with me today.

Azure B2C

Get a list of all extension attributes from an Azure B2C tenant

This is a blog post on how to get the full list of custom attributes that exist in an Azure B2C tenant. This example uses Microsoft Graph API and the client credentials OAuth flow.

Azure

Manage Azure AD B2C users dashboard

I've built an entire Azure AD B2C User Management solution that is available for free on Github. The code samples below are part of this larger solution. Feel free to use this application as you see fit. Contact me if you run into any issues or need help

Lessons from a WordPress hack

This is a blog post about the lessons I learned from a client’s experience with a WordPress hack. Having one of your client’s websites get hacked is a harsh reminder that every website is under the thread of a cyberattack and how important it is to take the

C#

Making the Armchair Expert Media Explorer

My wife is a huge fan of the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. She listens every week and is constantly learning about new books, movies, documentaries and other types of media from the conversations the shows hosts, Dax and Monica, have with their wide variety of guests. Throughout each

C#

Making the Armchair Expert Media Explorer

We've created a website that keeps track of every book, show, movie, documentary, article and podcast that's mentioned in each Armchair Expert podcast episode.

development

Are there specific resources for older developers?

A post on Hacker News got me thinking. Is there a specific resource for a developers of a certain age? I don't think there is.

Consulting

Business names are hard

I’m trying to think of a new business name for my consulting company, msoftware. The name was something I put together during the pandemic when I split off from the other consulting company I found with another developer. After deciding to split the companies up, I didn’t have

Not right now phone, I'm working

Sometimes I find myself mindlessly scrolling through my phone after completing a task, even though there's nothing in particular that I'm looking for. I just default go for my phone. It's a strange feeling, almost like an automatic reaction that you can't

Not right now phone, I'm working

Sometimes I find myself mindlessly scrolling through my phone after completing a task, even though there’s nothing in particular that I’m looking for. I just default go for my phone. It’s a strange feeling, almost like an automatic reaction that you can’t seem to control. You