All the undocumented weird configuration values that make stuff tick, even though they generally speaking likely shouldn’t. These articles mostly describe hacks you need to configure in the production environment directly.
Hopefully, there won’t be THAT many articles in this category… But I guess there will. I mean, what can you do?
Weird configuration hacks are there to stay, after all.
This article explains how to get around a sudden issue, where Postman suddenly starts showing you a nondescript and slightly misleading error about a missing URL in your request when you haven’t removed any parameters and the request just worked. But don’t let me get ahead of myself. Background So…Continue reading Suddenly receiving “The requested URL “[no URL]”, is invalid.” in Postman?
This article explains a couple of ways to fix an issue where after deployment, your Azure App Service suddenly starts throwing an error along the lines of “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.at System.Web.Security.Cryptography.HomogenizingCryptoServiceWrapper.HomogenizeErrors”. The error or the StackTrace doesn’t point to anything helpful (understandably, it’ll point to a StartUp.cs…Continue reading How to solve “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.” in Azure App Service
Another thing that I run into every now and then is creating CSRs for different customer environments. Since the requests often end up being a bit complex with a lot of SANs (Subject Alternative Names), crafting them with OpenSSL (or other console tools) is a bit laborious for my liking,…Continue reading How to export a CSR you’ve created on Windows?
This article explains how I fixed Terminal / PowerShell being unable to locate my winget when I was trying to install something with it. This was quite unexpected as I knew for sure I had installed winget, and I had also used it before successfully. But alas, things break down…Continue reading How to fix “The term ‘winget’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.” in Windows?
This article explains how to get around new security limitations (did I say “limitations”? I meant “features”) in Azure DevOps to make it tolerable to configure your Azure DevOps Deployment Environments. Because the recent changes to Azure DevOps have made it, quite frankly, intolerable. But – let’s take a step…Continue reading Azure DevOps suddenly not letting you manage Environments ? Sorry, it’s for your own security!
This article offers a couple of different ways to fix the “0x8a15000f” error that winget might throw at you in seemingly random situations. It’s a great tool especially for headless scenarios on Windows, but this was an odd one – and required an odd solution. Background Another day, another headache…Continue reading How to fix winget when it’s throwing a “0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing”?
This article explains how to install Home Assistant on your Synology NAS device using Container Manager and Web Station. This probably applies to DSM 7.2+ on any somewhat modern Synology DiskStation device. A lot of the steps also apply if you’re setting up ANY containers to run on your NAS,…Continue reading How to install Home Assistant on Synology NAS (DSM 7.2)?
This article explains how to use some archaic PowerShell magic to configure a custom 404 page for your Modern SharePoint Online Communication site. If you’ve been working with SharePoint for a while, this property might be already familiar to you. A lot of settings for each site collection are stored…Continue reading How to configure a custom 404 page for a SharePoint site?
Another (possibly?) timely and weird one here! This article explains how to work around Azure DevOps suddenly stopping to play nice with Docker and the rest of our tooling and causing all builds to fail with oddly non-descript error messages. Annoying to deal with but not the end of the…Continue reading Azure DevOps pipelines suddenly failing with “##[error]#0 building with default instance using docker driver”
This article explains one simple fix to all your text appearing wonky, with jagged and somehow oddly fuzzy edges in Windows. The guide is written for Windows 10 (because that’s the only modern OS that natively supports taskbar being docked on the side of the screen), but it probably applies…Continue reading How to fix jarringly jagged text in Windows?
