I recently acquired an 8Gb Raspberry Pi 4 and promptly installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it to see how it worked. Right away, I was excited that the PoE Hat worked and that it booted without any problems, except that the fan on the Hat was no longer controllable the way that it used to be.… Read more about Raspberry Pi 4, Ubuntu 20.04, PoE Hat Fan Control
Category Archives: Software
macOS Disk Utility “Operation cancelled”
When trying to use Disk Utility to make a backup of one of my Raspberry Pi’s, I was repeatedly seeing an error that was causing my backup to fail. Operation cancelled Disk Utility Not particularly helpful. For me, the fix involved setting the Disk Utility application to have Full Disk Access inside macOS System Preferences,… Read more about macOS Disk Utility “Operation cancelled”
Update GitLab signing key
At the beginning of April, GitLab updated their repository signing key. If you try to update, you will see an error during sudo apt update : W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ee/ubuntu bionic InRelease: The following signatures… Read more about Update GitLab signing key
Easy PHP Upgrade
I had a few servers that needed upgrading from PHP7.2 to 7.3, so I wrote this little single-line command to help simply things. It uses apt list to get the PHP modules that are currently installed with 7.2, and passes them through to apt install for 7.3. This can easily be modified for any PHP… Read more about Easy PHP Upgrade
Empty Space in macOS Dock
Variable SSL certificate directives in nginx (part 2)
Feeling encouraged by my friend Jeremy Felt’s blog post on the subject, I thought I may finally be able to achieve the panacea of WordPress Multi-Network SSL configurations:
Install nginx from source
At the time of this writing, the latest stable version of nginx is 1.16.0, and none of the package managers have updated themselves to include it. Before you get started, you’ll want to be logged in to an open terminal session with a user that has sudo access. The reason for this, is because nginx… Read more about Install nginx from source
Wi-Fi Calling – macOS
This glitchy bit of UI shows up after enabling WiFi calling on an iPhone.
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Open source requires a senatorial style of leadership to move big projects forward since there isn't necessarily a single key decision maker. Joe McGill
Stop indexing your development directory
Are you a software developer? Do you run macOS? Do you frequently checkout files from third party code repositories? Do you use an IDE like PHPStorm, Xcode, Atom, Netbeans, or something else? Do you frequently run commands like npm install that reach out to the web and pull down a bajillion files you will literally never-ever… Read more about Stop indexing your development directory