How to prevent Windows 10 driver updates
Start the Group Policy Editor. If you don't know how to do that you probably shouldn't fiddle with it.
Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components Windows Update … more
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Release early, release often is crazy
Unix is arguably a giant text adventure. The people who rave about it have usually forgotten two things.
Not everyone loves learning arcane stuff about computers.
The people who use the software … more
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EF Core scaffolding
There's no EDMX designer support for EF Core. Code first is possible but why would you doodle about like that when the database almost certainly already exists, and even if it doesn't SQL Management … more
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What's wrong with Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow isn't a community of developers.
The designers set out to gamify it and they succeeded. It is a long running game, and unsurprisingly it is dominated by experienced players of that … more
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MCU continuity glitch
In Thor: The Dark World, we learn that Odin's father Bor led the armies of Asgard to defeat the Frost Giants in Norway because it was his dominion as part of the Nine Realms. Then in Thor: Ragnarok … more
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Spring 2017
Two years ago my grapefruit tree produced two fruit that looked very appetising but were almost solid rind. Some quality time with Bing revealed two important factoids:
Super thick rind is a … more
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WebPack HMR with Edge
To get WebPack hot module reload to work with Edge you need a polyfill.
Add it to your project:
npm i event-source-polyfill
Then add it to your vendor.config.js file at the end of the vendor array. … more
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Allegorica 1 - fix my mail
No customers were harmed during the making of this story.
Customer: I don't want to receive all these notifications, how do I configure your product to send alerts to staff member X?
Me: You … more
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domain\username from SID
This is a powershell script. The SID is embedded in the script rather than supplied as a parameter because you'll want a real editor to enter something that long and fiddly, and if you make a mistake … more
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AppPoolIdentity and SQL Server
You've published your website and it can't talk to your database because it's not you any more, it's now running as the AppPoolIdentity. You could set it to run as you but that's far too much … more
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Base64 to Blob
This is based on someone else's code but I've lost the link. If you recognise your work leave a comment. It's here because I converted it to Typescript for convenient inclusion in Aurelia projects.
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Making WebPack include dynamically referenced assets
Dynamically selected view assets are problematic with WebPack because there static dependency detection fails to recognise them as required and does not include them in the build.
To persuade … more
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Conspiracy theory of the week
Australia's National Broadband Network has always been an embarrassing joke. Fifty billion dollars to provide 25Mbit/sec if you're lucky. Once upon a time it was going to fibre to the premises. Now … more
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Object readiness design pattern
Intent
Wait on asynchronous activity started by the constructor or another method of an object.
Motivation
Objects mutate. Sometimes this mutation begins during construction and continues after an … more