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How to fix winget when it’s throwing a “0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing”?

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”?

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How to update application settings for (all of your) App Services and Azure Functions on Azure using az cli?

Anyone still remember Log4Shell? The incredibly easy-to-exploit, zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, that made arbitrary code execution extremely simple and straightforward. The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was simply a side effect of a nifty new feature implemented way back when. But that’s enough…Continue reading How to update application settings for (all of your) App Services and Azure Functions on Azure using az cli?

I'm not saying it was built with Azure Functions, but it was definitely built with Azure Functions.

swa emulator throwing “✖ Could not connect to “http://localhost:7071″. Is the server up and running?”?

This article explains how to get around a weird quirk in Azure Static Web Apps local development story. Well – one of the quirks anyway. A real showstopper issue I ran into. One, that isn’t even that serious – it’s just that the error message doesn’t help you at all.…Continue reading swa emulator throwing “✖ Could not connect to “http://localhost:7071″. Is the server up and running?”?