The voluntary tech guy. Like Batman – but fighting downtime rather than crime.
So, we rock a 2014 Mazda 3, and thanks to the online community (and some hardware from AliExpress), we also rock Apple CarPlay via the last available Mazda Connect/MZD firmware update. This works flawlessly when running CarPlay with a cable – but I’m not alone in experiencing issues with wireless adapters and navigation announcements… In […]
Continue ReadingFor future reference – as documented by Microsoft: Network Policy Server Best Practices | Microsoft Learn – RADIUS (and by extension, NPS) does not support extended ASCII characters in passwords. So if you’re having issues with a subset of users being unable to authenticate via RADIUS – check if they have extended-ASCII characters in their […]
Continue Reading<InputNumber /> for BlazorI’ve recently been trying C# Blazor for web application development, and found the <InputNumber /> experience to be a little unintuitive from a user-experience perspective. The following component – which I’m calling InputParsable – when rendered via InteractiveServer will attempt to parse the value and “correct” user input in near real-time. You can see a […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been involved with helping a number of teams start-out with Web API development, and I always encourage them to agree their HTTP response codes sooner-rather-than-later. Personally, I’m a fan of documenting this as a flow-chart. That way, both those writing and those consuming the API have a straightforward means of knowing what to do […]
Continue ReadingAvailable now on Kindle (digital) and via Amazon (paperback), a short and non-technical commentary on 1, 2, and 3 John. The book is based upon a sermon series preached at https://plfc.org.uk and seeks to approach the biblical text from a reformed perspective – and exegetically faithful in its handling. View the commentary now on Amazon […]
Continue ReadingThere is a known problem with the interaction of Vagrant and recent versions of Windows where the system (Windows) OpenSSH client is installed (for example: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/13027 ). Most advice suggests telling Vagrant to use it’s own internally shipped SSH client, but I’ve found that to be buggy (particularly its handling of Ctrl+C). Windows’ own SSH […]
Continue ReadingAs a reformed evangelical Christian, I look forward with great anticipation at my life yet to come. Not the 50 or perhaps even 60 years left in this lifetime. But the next lifetime, the one which starts the day I die or Christ returns to take me home. Over the years, it has been my […]
Continue ReadingWe are now living in an age and society where we may legitimately need to ask the question: “Did that man just preach a sermon written by ChatGPT?” I know this to be the case because – out of sheer curiosity – I myself asked ChatGPT to write me a sermon on a passage of […]
Continue ReadingI’ve recently had justification to try out a pair of Ubiquiti airMAX LiteBeam M5s. The problem statement was a straightforward one: extend a LAN across the street to a second building. The distance is about 20 metres, almost certainly close enough that a pair of UniFi Meshes could handle it – but one of those […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re reading this, you’ve probably spent the last day of your life despairing as me and my colleague have during the last 24 hours. The problem definition is a seemingly simple one: we have some resource on AWS (in our case, an ALB) to which we want to apply an SSL/TLS certificate. Rather than […]
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