A PWA (or Progressive web application) is a website which can be installed on a desktop and acts like an app. It has an icon and a title. And it can even receive messages from the server if the app isn’t running. It can also show notification messages to the users.

So in short it’s a website acting like an app. This post shows you how to turn a Github Pages website into a pwa in three easy steps.

My personal page is a static website hosted on Github pages. Posts are written in markdown and the source of all the posts is in my public repository. I tweet about most posts at least once, and it just shows the link, that’s not what I want.

All tweets to my blog should at least show the title and a short description. Maybe even a large image related to the post.

Keeping your secrets secure, can be a huge challenge. And keeping secrets becomes a huge responsibility, especially if you’re in the business of building multi-tenant applications. Microsoft created managed identities to ease this responsibility, but according to the faq, you cannot use them to secure resources in other tenants. And that is exactly where we could use extra help is securing secrets.

Wanted to clone a repository to do a quick text fix and create a pull request. Created the fork, and tried to clone. Cloning the repository took way longer than I’m used to.