March 2025

While I use Windows on a limited basis, I generally have a hate-hate relationship with it. My transition from an old Dell laptop running Windows 10 (which was out of warranty and having the fans fail) to a new one running Windows 11 hit several of my buttons in this relationship, which I will touch upon here today, in roughly the order I encountered them. And all this is beyond the whole $$ for functionality mindset.

I recently have been trying to work up a side project using Laravel to download and display the information from my YouTube video playlists, using an API which requires OAuth2 authentication. The last time I played with something like this was years ago, and they only required an application key, not the full blown login.