I never thought that I would write an article on this site of mine about war, peace and a threat to not only an entire nation’s existence, but mine, too. But as this website has some reach (there’s around 75 000 of you each month), I feel that I have…Continue reading Evil triumphs when good men do nothing
How to output the value of a secret variable in Azure DevOps?
This article explains how you can output the value of a secret variable stored in Azure DevOps. This applies both to secrets stored in a Variable Group, or Pipeline Variables stored as secrets. Is it safe, secure and advisable to do this? No! But is it possible? Yes it is!…Continue reading How to output the value of a secret variable in Azure DevOps?
Long Path Tool – an unfortunate review
In one of my article’s comments section, I’ve been suffering from semi-automated spam advertising “Long Path Tool”. It’s a tool that can be used to create symlinks for files located deep in folder structure – a simple use case with a lot of free tools available to resolve the same…Continue reading Long Path Tool – an unfortunate review
Copilot Android app refusing to take pictures? I have the dumbest fix you’ll ever hear, but it’ll work, trust me.
This article explains how to work around the issue where the Copilot app fails to take pictures. Sounds boring, right? But hey – even with all of the gripes I have about Copilot, I do use it daily, and I’d really like it to work. Because when it does work…Continue reading Copilot Android app refusing to take pictures? I have the dumbest fix you’ll ever hear, but it’ll work, trust me.
Adventures in the Windows 11 24H2-land: How to restore your webcam after February 2025 Patch breaks it?
This article explains how to get your built-in webcam back after a Windows 11 update (in my case, February 2025 Cumulative Update package) hides/disables it. The weird thing is, the camera is visible in the Device Manager. No app can see it though. And trying to update the driver through…Continue reading Adventures in the Windows 11 24H2-land: How to restore your webcam after February 2025 Patch breaks it?
Have you heard? Dev Home is going away before it even arrived!
Microsoft has just retired the Windows Dev Home experience before it ever came out of Preview -status. And before it ever became that useful. Or even functional, if you ask me. It was a good idea (or maybe even a really good one), that never really materialized. I mean, I…Continue reading Have you heard? Dev Home is going away before it even arrived!
Taming my Home Assistant database growth
This article explains how to sensitively and carefully limit your Home Assistant’s database growth, without losing any valuable data. And because data is the new oil, pretty much all of the data is valuable. Who knows when you need to know whether your basement door was open or closed 1…Continue reading Taming my Home Assistant database growth
Dev Drive performance increase in real life scenarios?
This article shows a few benchmarks I have run on the performance improvement that Dev Drive offers, using a real-life project I am (well, was) working on some time ago. The simple examples in this article should give you some guidance on what kind of performance you should be able…Continue reading Dev Drive performance increase in real life scenarios?
Join my session at CTTT25 this week: Level Up Your Teams Extensibility Game with Blazor | Session materials from Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025!
This week I’ll be attending Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025. It’s my first time in this event that’s practically next door in the beautiful town of Tallinn! Although I guess the name was kind of a dead giveaway already, right? I’ll be speaking about Blazor and Teams development stuff. This…Continue reading Join my session at CTTT25 this week: Level Up Your Teams Extensibility Game with Blazor | Session materials from Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025!
How to identify which wifi band your Decos are using?
This article explains how you can identify which wifi bands your TP-Link Decos are using, without using a WiFi Analyzer or other such tools. I’ll also explain why you might need this information – in my case it was about interference (because of course it was!) And as usual, this…Continue reading How to identify which wifi band your Decos are using?
Don’t assign root domain to GitHub Pages if you use it for email!
Just a quick tip I learned the hard way: if you want to host a website on GitHub Pages, make sure to only point the www-subdomain, and not the “naked”, apex domain, in case you’re using it for email mailboxes. I learned the hard way that the A records pointing…Continue reading Don’t assign root domain to GitHub Pages if you use it for email!