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Here you can find my private notes about programming that I wanted to share with you. Feel free to filter based on the topic you want or search for something specific.

    Use the JsonConverter attribute to parse complex JSON object into a C# class

    I was working lately with some complex JSON objects coming from the alphavantage, an API for getting meta information about stocks, currencies and the world economy in general, and had to overcome major issues before being able to deserialize the strings into my C# POCO classes.

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    Use the Fetch API to download files with their original filename and the proper way to catch server errors

    The Fetch API provides a handy way for downloading resources from the internet via JavaScript code. In my case I used it to download Excel sheets from the back-end of a web application. Let us check the code together and clarify things with the help of comments.

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    Remove modified files from a Git Pull Request but keep them with their changes on your local branch

    The scenario described on the title of the article happens pretty often. You committed files, pushed them to a feature branch and created a new pull request to merge them to master. However, maybe you accidentally pushed modified files, for which work is still in progress and you do not want them on master yet. So now you want to remove specific files from the pull request but keep the changes you made in these files locally. How?

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    The reason behind the "Cannot implicitly convert type System.Threading.Tasks.Task to XXX"

    A quick article this time about an error message in C# when dealing with asynchronous code calls.

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    The way to have two or more Jekyll blogs in your Git Pages website

    I wanted to split my blog into two separate blogs, one for my technology articles and one for everyday tips and tricks, so I searched for a way to do that on my Jekyll website which is hosted on a Git Page on GitHub.

    Unfortunately Git Pages do not support the version 2.0 of the jekyll paginate plugin which would allow me to split the posts into Categories and iterate on each blog over a specific category.

    Here are the steps I followed to solve this problem:

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