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Generating Azure OAuth2 Access Token By Python

There are two modern ways to generate an Azure OAuth2 access token using Python: one is by using the MSAL library, and the other is by using the Azure Identity library, which is based on the former.

There're also other ways to get the token, like using the requests or aiohttp libraries etc. to send a POST request to the Azure OAuth2 token endpoint, but it's not recommended. As the MSAL and Azure Identity libraries are the official libraries provided by Microsoft, they are more secure and easier to use. For e.g. they handle token caching, token refreshing, and token expiration automatically. Furthermore, some of the credential types are difficult (too many code) to be implemented by raw requests or aiohttp.

Rendering CSV as Markdown table in Mkdocs Material

Markdown table is not easy to write in IDE. So I want to write CSV and render it as Markdown table. Previously I used a pre-build script during CICD time to convert CSV to Markdown table, and referenced it as --8<-- "markdown_table_file_path.md". But it's not convenient to preview the result locally. So I want to find a way to render CSV as Markdown table in Mkdocs Material directly.

Migrating my blog from Jekyll Minimal Mistakes to Mkdocs Material

After using Jekyll Minimal Mistakes for years, I decided to migrate my blog to MkDocs Material, as it's written in Python and I'm more familiar with it.

Setting up Jekyll with Minimal Mistakes theme on Windows

Do you want to preview Jekyll blog locally on Windows before publishing it to Internet? Many online tutorials about setting up Jekyll on Windows are out of date, I will show you in this post the 2018 version and with the Minimal Mistakes theme.

Setting up Github Pages With custom domain over HTTPS

With Github pages, we can create our blogs in our own domain over HTTPS completely free. Of course you should pay for your domain name at the Registrar.