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Testing Enterprise Infrastructure changes with brownouts
Decommissioning or migrating services in enterprise environments will frequently reveal previously unknown dependencies which result in changes getting rolled back, wasting a lot of time. To try and head these issues off you can test these changes with “brownouts”, shutting off the relevant infra temporarily (eg at a weekend) to expose any hidden dependencies. When …
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“Query types” and “Queries answered by” graphs not appearing in Pihole Admin GUI
Try clearing your browser cache
Wired networking not working on SBC / Allwinner with Kernel 5.9.0
That’s because there’s a bug: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/15593-no-network-with-590-sunxi-on-banana-pi-m2-berry/ Either get the patch or downgrade. Wifi appears unaffected so you can use that to connect.
“File exists, but cannot be read” error on emacs 27
Try this fix from StackExchange: Set (setq create-lockfiles nil) in config
24 influential books programmers should read
https://dev.to/squash/24-influential-books-programmers-should-read-2020-updated-2h33
Demo code for flask-ask-sdk
Amazon’s Hello World Alexa Skill example modified to use their Flask library: https://gist.github.com/jamespo/0522d39eff41a5acc0491e1cd5e1d957
Test SameSite cookie behaviour
https://samesite-sandbox.glitch.me/ All green means you have the new behaviour.
Enable Reader Mode in Chrome
chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
Windows key not working on your Magicforce 83 keyboard?
AKA this one from Amazon. fn+esc toggles “gaming mode”, which disables the windows key!