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How to Set Up GitHub Personal Access Token to Fix Deprecated Usr/Pass Authentication
After creating a repo on my GitHub web page today, I tried and failed to use Git push to transfer local fies onto the GitHub remote server (cloud). This was attempted with $ git push -u origin main The error notice was: "error: unable to read askpa...
Hashnode and its passwordless authentication process
I love security and I trust noone, especially after the whistle blower blew his whistle and was exiled. Today, I logged out of Hashnode on Windows 8 (yes, I know) and closed the browser. To log in to Hashnode I tried the following: scoured my browse...
SSH authentication nightmare continues
Day 22 of my learning coding experience! It was all going well until, after August 13, I hit a snag with Git doing pushes. I was in the Git Rebase lesson on amigoscode.com, when the problem became apparent, and it confirmed my suspicions that I had e...
GitHub Essentials, SassyCSS
Brilliant! 75% through amigoscode's GitHub Essentials course, and it's all making sense now, although I still have an authentication issue (despite having configured GitHub with SSH keys). A nice little sidetrack I had was looking at SCSS. SassyCSS/S...
Wrestling with a full Nelson
Day six, really, of my new life - learning to code. Today sees me with 24 total page views on hashnode, finishing work on amigoscode.com's useful Terminal, Bash & VIM Essentials lecture series. Basically I am here to familiarise myself with Git bash,...
xAPI - if it's good enough for the US Defence Dept., I could be on to a winner
Day two of this blog. I heard that in the developers' world, if you know where you want to end up, it's a good idea to work backwards, so today I've looked at eLearning and in particular the Experience API (a.k.a. xAPI) which gives you insights into ...
What a Git! Still using EditPad Lite!
I keep notebooks of my computer activity, and I suggest you do the same. The entry for 30/09/2020 says I installed GitHub Desktop. The info is there, including my password and username. It goes on to say I followed that up by installing Git on my Tos...
Hiccups, false-starts, and getting off the blocks...
... as a web application developer, what else? Graduated in 2002 in Interactive Multimedia Design in the UK, followed by a move to Italy to teach English. Never leaving off the idea that I could become a developer, first with my own language learning...