Using mkcert for testing
The following package.json script will automatically generate cert and key for the domains that you want - set your server to load the same names and cert setup is now a one-liner.
More issues
Unexpected Lists in Elixir
Well - unexpected to me at the time, though part of the language.
I've been putting something together in Phoenix
[https://www.phoenixframework.org/], and one of the pages kept throwing an error
that it couldn't find item_path/3. This was odd, as the generating code
Using QEMU in 32-bit mode
Lately I’ve been following this series on dev.to
[https://www.solarwinter.net/using-qemu-in-32-bit-mode/(https://dev.to/frosnerd/writing-my-own-boot-loader-3mld]
on writing your own OS from the ground up - it makes a nice change of pace from
the web stuff
Too Many Headers
Also known as "things I've learned today"...
I've been using Insomnia [https://insomnia.rest/] the last couple of days to
test a web API. Insomnia's a great client - it's got lots of features to make
life easier. You can set
Vue and PWA = awesome
I just had to take a minute to say - Vue’s [https://vuejs.org] automatic PWA
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application] support is
amazing. Enable it with the Vue CLI and it Just Works.
Okay, you have to supply your own icons and stuff, but that&
X doesn't exist
When Linux keeps reporting that a binary doesn't exist, when it clearly does?
That's annoying. One possible reason is below - this is the one that bit me a
few days ago.
If you don't know what bits and bytes are, skip straight to the
GraphQL - first steps
I was following Flavio Copes' tutorial
[https://flaviocopes.com/graphql-node-express/] on creating a basic GraphQL
server in Express the other day. The tutorial was good, but I realised at the
end that it didn't give you an example of a query to actually see the
Microphone not working in Windows
Just sharing this for anyone else who Googled/DuckDuckGo
[https://www.duckduckgo.com/]'ed and didn't have any luck.
Short version
tl;dr - if you've already done the "sound settings", "set default", update
drivers etc. dance, check the "privacy"
Parameter handling for Node.js logging with Winston
Making Winston log statements act like console.log()
Easy certificates for Localstack
I found myself having to generate certificates for a Localstack instance,
several times (because I forgot the syntax and they got overwritten); eventually
I gave up and wrote this shell script to do it.
The script uses the excellent mkcert [https://mkcert.dev/], by Filippo Valsorda
[https://github.com/FiloSottile]