Looks like my organization (accidentally) wants to manage my background picture. If you are an admin, you might be able to (temporarily) override the wallpaper, by editing your registry and restarting the explorer process. If you can, you can automate it using PowerShell.
Read the article How to bypass company wallpaper as local admin on Windows 11
Here are some script to locally debug your JWT token using Bash or PowerShell. I just need to know if the token is expired or not.
Read the article Debug a JWT token expiration locally with bash or PowerShell
Let’s add JWT tokens to protect our API endpoints. Connecting services will supply their public keys, so we can validate their JWT tokens. We’ll use a configuration file to map tokens to local policies to restrict access to certain endpoints.
Read the article Simple JWT Access Policies for API security in .NET
I’ve decided to upgrade the hubot-command-mapper and the bot-zero projects to ESM, just like Hubot 11. This blog will focus on how to upgrade the unit tests. In that sense it is a short rewrite of Hubot testing revisited.
Read the article Hubot Testing Revisted (Again): Hubot 11
At Wehkamp, we’ve been very busy with the migration of our container platform. Our (old) Blaze platform runs on Mesos, Marathon, and NGINX, but we’re shifting to a new Atlas platform, powered by Kubernetes and Istio. This setup gives us more resilience, security and auto scaling. A year ago, we successfully migrated our www-ingress to this new platform. This week, we set our sights on migrating the app-ingress for our Android and IOS backend services. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned…
Read the article How Istio and Argo CD helped us to debug platform migration issues for our App
There are many guides on how to install and configure Git on a Windows PC. As I test new developer laptops for Wehkamp, it makes sense to have some notes on how to do it. Most Windows developers use git HTTPS cloning, but this guide shows how to install and configure SSH.
Read the article Notes on Git Setup with SSH for Windows (GitHub)
I’m working on a project that turns GitOps data into APIs using Bash, JQ, and YQ. After reviewing GitHub connection options, I found SSH works best for local development, while GitHub App tokens are ideal for containers. Here’s how to use Bash to authenticate with the GitHub CLI and clone repositories using either method.
Read the article Bash GitHub authentication: pull repositories with SSH and App Tokens
I love using Visual Studio Code as it is very flexible and runs almost anywhere. It is usually the first editor I install on a new machine. Let’s script those plugin installs, so we can roll them out to new machines.
Read the article Notes on installing Visual Studio Code
There is so much fun stuff you can do with Home Assistant. I like the fact that you can build a personal dashboard to monitor all sorts of things. So why not track fuel prices in your region?
Read the article Home Assistant: track your favourite fuel stations
Let’s use some simple YAML files to define a RESTful command that automatically triggers when one of the Zonneplan sensors change. Simple and effective.
Read the article Home Assistant: sending Zonneplan One stats to PVOutput