I never thought that I would write an article on this site of mine about war, peace and a threat to not only an entire nation’s existence, but mine, too. But as this website has some reach (there’s around 75 000 of you each month), I feel that I have…Continue reading Evil triumphs when good men do nothing
How to generate Certificate-Signing Requests using OpenSSL
This article explains how to generate a CSR using the OpenSSL CLI toolkit. We’ll go through a step-by-step guide to create a private key and a CSR. This should be helpful for system administrators and developers who need to set up secure connections for their servers or applications. In the…Continue reading How to generate Certificate-Signing Requests using OpenSSL
Home Assistant 2024.4 changes weather forecasts – what to do?
This article explains how to fix your template sensors, automations and other functionality that is broken by the 2024.4 update of the Home Assistant platform, where forecasts are removed from weather entities. Fixing the issue requires some YAML, and while you’ll loose debuggability and possibly encounter some performance hits and…Continue reading Home Assistant 2024.4 changes weather forecasts – what to do?
External path “**” cannot have more than one “*” wildcard with vite?
This article explains a couple of workarounds to a frustrating issue I had with vite and yet-another-weird-frontend-build-toolkit. Because every toolchain for frontend stuff is different, apparently. And they all fail in different ways. Anyway – let’s get to it. Background I was just creating a tiny bugfix to an older…Continue reading External path “**” cannot have more than one “*” wildcard with vite?
Removing node_modules under a folder
This quick article explains how to clean up all dependencies installed with npm or yarn, and stored in folders called “node_modules” within your project and solution files. This regrettable step might be required to either free some disk space or clear weirdly broken dependencies from your project(s). Hope this will…Continue reading Removing node_modules under a folder
How to solve “You don’t have permission to invite people to this item, but you can still add people and send an invite request to the file owner.” in a SharePoint document library?
This article explains a solution to a puzzling problem, where you might be the owner of a SharePoint site and have all the imaginable permissions on a Document Library, but still be unable to share a single item, let alone a folder with edit permissions to anyone. Turns out this…Continue reading How to solve “You don’t have permission to invite people to this item, but you can still add people and send an invite request to the file owner.” in a SharePoint document library?
Suddenly receiving “The requested URL “[no URL]”, is invalid.” in Postman?
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?
How to enable Stream Deck integration in “New Teams”?
This article explains how to configure the Teams integration in the Microsoft Teams Stream Deck plugin. Because chances are the documentation you’ve read does not match how it actually goes 😄 Also, I’ll share my over 1-year-long story with Stream Deck. It, unfortunately, has not been uneventful. Want to skip…Continue reading How to enable Stream Deck integration in “New Teams”?
How to solve “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.” in Azure App Service
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
“Critical Error – Your Start menu isn’t working”
Well this one was a doozy. My Start Menu stopped working. And that wasn’t nice as I kind of need that. Anyway. Found a couple of ways to try and fix this. One even worked. Wrote them down for your reference (and mine, to be honest). Find them below. (I…Continue reading “Critical Error – Your Start menu isn’t working”
How to export a CSR you’ve created on Windows?
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?
