My initial problem: I have an elixir project I’m building primarily on linux, but I want it to work on Windows, too, and I’m using bcrypt, which needs nmake to compile on Windows.

One must install Visual Studio (VS), but that’s not enough.

As a personal note, since I’ve done it for family a few times now, here are steps one can use to create a gif from a longer video.

April 2021 update: while the pi-hole is a very cool project, I eventually grew tired of maintaining a separate DNS service. I still use unbound on my edgerouter but now my raspberry pi just runs some local web services.

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