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 easily add additional headers to the Graph API calls you make in PowerShell using Invoke-PnPGraphMethod commandlet. There’s a convenient sample for you to copy-paste and some basic explanations on what we’re doing below. Background Every now and then, I need to make some Graph API…Continue reading How to add AdditionalHeaders to Invoke-PnPGraphMethod?
That’s a mouthful, right? But yeah – this article shows and tells how to do a parallel foreach loop in PowerShell, and how to do it properly! Well, at least probably. This is how I did it anyway. But that’s enough chitchat, let’s get to it! Background In PowerShell, you…Continue reading How to iterate through a collection of items in a Parallel Foreach loop in PowerShell?
This article explains what to do to get rid of an error that SEEMS simple to fix but might turn out to be elusive, namely, “The term ‘yo’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or…Continue reading How to fix “yo : The term ‘yo’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.” error?
This article explains (one way) how to re-enable Bluetooth on your Windows laptop, in case Windows has just forgotten you have a Bluetooth adapter in your pc. Which would be weird because I don’t think any pcs ship without, anymore. Even Raspberry Pis have come with Bluetooth for years now.…Continue reading How to re-enable Bluetooth on your Windows device
This article explains how to make your Microsoft Store (the app distribution channel on Windows – the one that’s supposed to distribute apps reliably and keep them up-to-date) work after it has suddenly stopped updating or installing any apps with a very non-descriptive error – “Something happened on our end”.…Continue reading “Something happened on our end” on Microsoft Store
In a bit different news, this time I’m sharing my preferred Bluetooth configuration that makes using headphones (or are they called “earpods” now?) bearable. It’s required some experimentation, but I did finally find a combination that doesn’t cause the audio to be laggy or janky. Problem For over a year,…Continue reading How to fix OnePlus 10 Pro Bluetooth issues
This article explains how to resolve “Import-Module: Assembly with same name is already loaded” error in PowerShell (and a couple of related issues – old versions of the module being used, updating modules silently failing, uninstalling modules simply not doing anything…) Problem Different error messages you might get (obviously the…Continue reading How to actually uninstall conflicting PowerShell modules?
This article dives into Developer Mode on Android and explains how to actually enable it on your device. You might need to do this if your device’s factory defaults are stupid (like on my 2 last OnePlus phones), you need to debug an app on your phone or achieve some…Continue reading How to enable Developer Mode on Android?
Haha, another one of those “should’ve known it was this easy” in the books! This article explains how to include the whole certificate chain (so your “user certificate” with all the “intermediary certificates” and optionally, but not as recommended, the root certificate) in your PEM-formatted certificate. Because sometimes you just…Continue reading How to include the whole certificate chain in your .cer, .crt or .pem certificate file?
This article explains how to replace double quotes in string literal when replacing stuff in GitHub Actions using sed. Or rather, how to replace stuff with double quotes in it in GitHub Actions overall. Because it’s not as straightforward as one would think. Or maybe I’m missing something obvious here?…Continue reading How to avoid sed in GitHub Actions removing spaces from your script steps?