This article explains how to read and write files in a MAUI application. No, not AppPackageFiles, nobody likes those, but actual NORMAL files. Real files. Dynamic files. Files that can change. Runtime files. I don’t know what to call them. But I hope you get the idea. Someone needs to…Continue reading How to read and write files in a MAUI application?
This article explains how to fix and reconnect Sonoff Zigbee sensors in Home Assistant, after they have mystically disconnected themselves. The neatness of this solution is that while the eWelink app will assign your sensors a new device id any time you have to re-register them, this approach lets you…Continue reading How to fix disconnected Sonoff Zigbee sensors in Home Assistant?
This article explains one way to fix a horribly laggy desktop user experience in Windows 10 (and probably 11) when your laptop is beefy enough it should not lag and even has a dedicated NVIDIA Graphics card. At least applying this fix is going to be quite straightforward – but…Continue reading How to fix all UWP/WinUI apps being laggy in Windows 10/11?
A while back I got a request to change the default certificate for an AKS cluster. A customer didn’t like the “Kubernetes Fake Certificate” that’s shown when no other matching certificates can be found, and they wanted it changed. So yours truly started googling, and as a result, this article…Continue reading How to replace the default fake “ACME” certificate for Kubernetes/AKS?
This article explains another small but significant gotcha you “just need to know” when working with certificates and certification authorities, and you – just like me – are for some reason still using Windows as your workhorse. I’ll go through how to export the private key that has been stored…Continue reading How to export the private key from your Certificate Signing Request on Windows?
It took me something like 10 years of struggling to get remote triggers to finally fire in Azure DevOps, and in this article, I’ll share how I finally got the remote repository trigger to work for an actual Team Project in real production use (and that’s a first!) 😃 Okay,…Continue reading Working YAML sample of a remote repository CI trigger in Azure DevOps
Heh, this article is going to be another one of those “Drat, I should’ve known this” articles. But maybe it’ll be helpful for someone else as well! In this post I will explain how to get around the “Error: Invalid use of command line. Type “winrm -?” for help.” error…Continue reading winrm complaining “Error: Invalid use of command line.” – easy fix :)
