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You can't trust self-signed certificates on iOS with a validity period greater than 398 days

Self-signed certificates with a validity period greater than 398 days cannot be trusted on iOS and Firefox will not display a warning and instead fail to load the site.

Add the ability to Remote Desktop (RDP) into Windows 11 Home Edition (Script)

How to add the ability to Remote Desktop into Windows 11 Home Edition.

How to store and retrieve secrets in PowerShell

Instead of hardcoding secrets such as passwords into your source code, you can use PowerShell's SecretManagement module to retrieve secrets from a secret vault that you create. You use the SecretManagement module to register different vault extensions and access vault secrets. These vault extensions are responsible for authentication

How to create a valid self-signed SSL certificate for your internal services using PowerShell

If you're sick of seeing certificate errors when you try to access your internal services, and you would like to use valid SSL certificates but since these services are all internal and are not exposed to the internet, you don't want to use a reverse proxy

How to do a two tunnel hop in WinSCP

This situation might not come up all that too often, but I found one instance where I needed to do it, so this is a quick write up on how to perform a two tunnel hop using WinSCP so you can easily do a file transfer to a remote server

windows-terminal

How to install Windows Terminal on Windows Server 2022

Updated 1/30/2022 using VCLib installation notes from https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3097#issuecomment-1345242698 Microsoft recommends installing the Windows Terminal through the Windows Store, but if you are using a server where you do not wish to login to the Windows Store application, you can install Windows

Setting up wake-on-LAN for libvirt virtual machines in Ubuntu 20.04.3

How to setup up wake-on-LAN ("WOL") for libvirt virtual machines on a Ubuntu 20.04 host.

How to get SQL Server product key from installation media

You can easily just run the SQL Server installation and get the product key that is provided on the "Product Key" page but it is easier to just grab the key directly from the installation disc/image. Mount your installation media and open the file <Drive>

Use Hyper-V and VirtualBox together on Server 2019

I stumbled across this while trying to get Multipass working on Server 2019, with Hyper-V. My plan is to use Multipass to quickly spin up virtual machines for different blog posts I plan on doing. There is a known issue with Multipass using Hyper-V, so I decided to try it

Workaround: Plex DVR unmaps channels from xTeVe

Thanks to Zimmra for this workaround! I don't know if this is an issue that a lot of people are experiencing but there is at least one post on r/PleX regarding it, and several users on the xTeVe discord server have experienced it, including myself. The issue

Setup dizqueTV alongside HDHomeRun OTA in Plex

For what is essentially "Part 1", read Creating custom "TV channel" streams in Plex using dizqueTV. If you use Plex and watch TV by watching any of the over-the-air (OTA) channels in your area, then I highly recommend picking up one of the HDHomeRun TV tuners.

Creating custom "TV channel" streams in Plex using dizqueTV

Creating custom "TV channel" streams in Plex using dizqueTV

💡5/24/2024: Updated to include example docker-compose.yml file that contains both Plex and dizquetv. If you've ever wanted to have a personalized TV channel, then dizqueTV is for you! dizqueTV lets you create live IPTV channel streams from the media on your Plex server. So, if

Finding Myself As a Father

10 months have gone by since the LO (little one) has been here, and I feel like I've become pretty comfortable being his dad/being a dad. I'm comfortable changing diapers, getting up at night, getting up early, playing with him, being goofy, taking him out

Raspberry Pi 3b with Plex

I have a few spare Raspberry pis laying around (RPi 1, RPi2, RPi3b) and they aren't doing anything, so I figured why not install Rasbian on the 3b and see how well Plex works? The Raspberry Pi 3 Model 3 when changed to use 1GB of swap space

Last Day Of Leave Block

Today is the final day of my 10 week family leave. I get 12 weeks but I only took a 10 week block, so I could use the last 10 days throughout the rest of the year. Leave went by too fast but I'm extremely grateful that I

Hack away at it until it works

I've always been sort of a read about something, hack away, fail, read some more, make some progress, read, fail, make some more progress and eventually get something working kind of person. I learn by doing and experimenting. This can be pretty embarrassing for me. Not because I&

Full30.bundle - January Update Part 3

Full30.bundle - January Update Part 3

I did a bit of tweaking on this plugin/channel so it now uses the same video API for everything, instead of using some older API for certain video listings like 'most viewed'. This cleaned up the code a bit so I no longer have several methods that

Plex plugins and my simple Full30 plugin

Plex plugins and my simple Full30 plugin

Let me preface this with Full30 is an awesome site and you should definitely go there if firearms are your thing. I only wrote this Plex addon because I do most of my video watching on the TV and this makes it easier until there is an official app/channel

syncpad

I setup an instance of the NodeJs service I wrote called syncpad . This is an experiment for creating a sort of collaborative online "notepad". It has been a long time since I've made any real changes to it, but feel free to check it out by

Test!

Testing out a new blog!

When it comes to software, controlled destruction breeds confidence

When it comes to software, controlled destruction breeds confidence

“Get Out Alive” is a prototype I’ve been working on for a 2D turn-based game. It has been a few months since I started and has been a lot of fun so far, so I figured I would give a progress update. Lately I’ve been working on “search

Impostor or over thinker?

One of the biggest struggles I have is constantly overthinking things. If I’m working on something outside my comfort zone, sometimes overthink by focusing too much on the “best” way to do it. I can spend so much time trying to think of the “best” way that I end

The Art of Practicing

In one way or another, all professionals practice. They do this because they care about doing the best job they possibly can. What is more, they practice on their own time because they realize that it is their responsibility – and not their employer’s- to keep their skills sharp. Practicing

The Journey of a Professional Amateur

It has been a few years since I’ve posted anything on here, I guess I got busy and just didn’t really like feel I had anything to share. I originally created this ‘blog’ as a place to sort of write randomly about the different projects I’m working