Category: Tech
This category contains all of the non-rants. And some tech-related rants, I guess. It’s difficult to categorize your content, you know?
This category contains all of the non-rants. And some tech-related rants, I guess. It’s difficult to categorize your content, you know?
This article explains how to untangle Excel when a worksheet file is conflicted and upload-blocked beyond salvation, thanks to a little demon inhabiting your computer. Don’t believe me? Oh, do read on – there’s plenty to be said about this particular gremlin. And if you’re a regular reader, you probably…Continue reading “Performing cleanup” – Excel is stuck with an old, conflicted file and will never recover.
This article explains an issue that you probably shouldn’t run into – unless you’re doing something a bit dumb. Just like I was. Or still am. Namely, I really needed an app I registered in Entra ID to have multiple “app identifier URIs” for reasons that are not great, but…Continue reading How to add multiple app URIs for your Entra app registration?
This article aims to clear the confusion around the GitHub Repository Secrets and explain how to successfully use them in your pipelines for fun and profit! Well, mostly for additional security and pipeline parameterization, really… But still – it’s a good piece of functionality to wrap your head around and…Continue reading How to access Environment Secrets with GitHub Actions?
This article explains a quick fix to a very topical issue: Copilot app suddenly becoming hostile to you due to your work credentials, and incredibly, carrying that grudge on and on, even after you’ve signed out of your work account (as per the bots demands) and signed in with your…Continue reading Copilot app on Windows refusing to use your Personal account? Easy fix!
This article explains briefly what the different Microsoft Teams App templates in Visual Studio are for and what capabilities do they come with. It’s a lot to wade through, but I hope this article is able to explain the basics. Background Lately, I’ve been playing around with Blazor and Teams…Continue reading What do you get from a Microsoft Teams App template in Visual Studio?
This article explains a couple of easy fixes for an issue, where Visual Studio refuses to properly recognize the FluentUI components you might have used in your Blazor projects. Because apparently that can (kind of randomly) happen! Problem The screenshot below shows a sample from Microsoft’s basic Teams tab extension…Continue reading Intellisense not working for Fluent components in Blazor project? Easy fix!
… because of course it is! Ah well, winget is a great idea with a decent implementation, suffering from an unstable platform it’s built on. I’ve now seen it break down seemingly randomly 3 times – once it was one of the many reasons I had to reinstall Windows completely.…Continue reading winget is broken again.
This article explains how to fix an issue where FancyZones (from the fantastic Windows PowerToys toolset) fails to work because it conflicts with the built-in window management in Windows 11. I guess it’s too much to ask for a level of coordination here from Microsoft… Oh well. Anyway – I…Continue reading How to fix PowerToys FancyZones in Windows 11?
Every now and then, you run into a situation where you have a certificate for a website or service, but for one reason or another, you don’t have the whole chain. You’re missing some or all of the intermediaries, and even the root certificate, perhaps. This is something I run…Continue reading How to export the whole SSL (or TLS) certificate chain based on the original using PowerShell?
This article explains a fix to a puzzling issue I had with Google Chrome, where my keyboard shortcuts would seemingly randomly stop working and I’d need to click around (or change to another application with Alt+Tab) to get them working again. Luckily, the solution (or I guess it’s more like…Continue reading How to solve keyboard shortcuts not working in Google Chrome on Windows?