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Time for something completely different: Hardware stuff. In this article, I'll explain how to upgrade Synology DS423+ NAS's RAM memory, which super-cheap RAM memory I used, and a little bit about how I ended up with this device in the first place....

So, I'm an occasional developer (and a frequent scripter), so I occasionally need to, well, develop stuff. And quite often I need Docker for packaging whatever I'm trying to push out there, or possibly to run someone else's containers on my machine....

This article explains our solution to a very particular use case. We needed to go through .csproj files, find certain dependencies from them, and then figure out their versions. And all of this needed to happen in an Azure DevOps pipeline....

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....

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....

This quick blog post explains a couple of very simple fixes - essentially, user errors - to a simple problem that you might run into with Visual Studio when developing the latest of your cool Azure bits....

So another simple one. (I just seem to run into all of the issues whenever I try to do the simplest thing with Docker!) Or with anything, I guess - but yeah, that's another article then....

Okay - another one of the topics that I'm explaining probably more to myself than whoever's reading this later. But that's why I write this blog, so please bear with me. 🙂 Anyway, onto the actual issue at hand!...

This article explains how you can move your Home Assistant's SQLite database files to another location by mapping them to another volume in Docker. Using Docker on Windows. Which might not be a smart move, but it's one I went with anyway....

Another one in the series of "random things that break when you try to run Docker on Windows"!...

This article will explain how to run your arbitrary SQL commands against a Postgre SQL database running in a Docker container in Windows....

This was another (luckily pretty shallow) rabbit hole down some corporate IT and weird default configurations by our favorite tech-daddy Microsoft. In this article, I will describe one possible reason for a process called Vmmem....

Once again, I come to you with a surprisingly opaque problem and offer to share my bemusingly simple solution....

What a nice headline, right? 😅 One day, I thought I'd give Home Assistant a try! And obviously, I couldn't just make things easy and run it in a Linux virtual machine or my Raspberry Pi - instead, obviously, I decided to run it on Windows 10!...