You can use an old router such as D-Link DWR-116 when you need to receive a Wi-Fi signal and send it over RJ-45 wire. This helps when configuring a new system, e.g. Raspberry PI or FreeBSD, and you need immediate connectivity by simply inserting the ethernet cable, so you can connect via SSH right away, or simply don't want to manually edit the text file to configure wi-fi.
in Mac OS #debian #virtualbox #localhost
If you develop on a Mac inside VirtualBox, you can mount the contents locally so IDEs can access them. A free alternative to e.g. Mountain Duck or SSHMount, and simpler than SSHFS + macFUSE
One day my cPanel-hosted sites stopped working, saying "Your Composer dependencies require the following PHP extensions to be installed" and "System default PHP version is alt-php. PHP Selector is disabled. Use cPanel MultiPHP manager instead". In this post I wrote down the tools that helped me hotfix PHP and cPanel as I was waiting for the hosting support to step in.
I want to try an older Postman version because the v11 I'm currently using feels heavy and bloated.
in Cloud & Serverless #microsoft-azure #cpanel
cPanel has built-in GIT hosting that you can use in automated deployment with e.g. Azure Web App service. To make it happen, you create a text file with deployment instructions and credentials in your code repo, and you add an environment variable to Azure.
If your iPhone complains "Cannot Send Message - MMS Messaging needs to be enabled to send this message", there is a fix in the settings that is both very unintuitive and very likely to work.
in Experimental #debian #raspberry-pi
Do you want to use actual Debian (not Raspbian aka Raspberry Pi OS) on a Raspberry Pi? Here are the small adjustments you will need to make to an official Debian image to make it 1. boot and 2. contain some of the features you would expect from Raspbian
in Cloud & Serverless #microsoft-azure
When creating a Service Plan in a region you never used before, you may run into `SubscriptionIsOverQuotaForSku` error. The solution is to request a service increase, the process is often automated and done in a few minutes. The guide contains step-by-step instructions and lists potential gotchas.