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.
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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
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 I’ve been doing, from very near the top
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
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
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
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 resolvers
in
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]