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  • Discovery 3 Land Rover diagnostic repository

    This is just a place I use to keep some handy info on how to diagnose my discovery 3 without paying a fortune. Be careful buying these. The one I have only does the engine ECU!!! After realising that it was almost useless. And having issues with dongle based devices and loosing access after upgrading…

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  • Auto adding new users to groups in Authentik

    I had a new app working, and I needed to add authentication so I could set up a user-specific database when a new user signs in. In other words, I kinda wanted pass through auth. Where all we need is the users email address in order to identify them. Here’s how I achieved it by…

  • Solving the Mystery of the Missing Zoom Recurring Meetings

    Have you ever found yourself in a panic, trying to start a Zoom meeting, only to be thwarted by the elusive nature of recurring meetings? This exact scenario happened to me recently, and it was a true lesson in navigating Zoom’s interface quirks. I was trying to start a Zoom meeting, but because it was…

  • Resolving UNVERIFIED Messages When Using AWS SNS and New Sender IDs

    Introduction If you’ve been using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to send SMS messages, you might encounter an issue where messages are received as “UNVERIFIED.” This can be a common problem, especially when you start using a new sender ID. In this blog post, we’ll explore why this happens and how you can resolve it.…

  • Why is My Angular Array Not Updating in the View?

    As an Angular developer, you’ve probably encountered this frustrating scenario: you update an array in your component, but the changes don’t seem to be reflected in the view. You’ve checked your code, and everything looks correct, but the view remains stubbornly unchanged. In this article, we’ll explore the reasons behind this behavior and provide a…

  • Python, Flask and the dreaded error: No module named ‘imp’

    When trying to run a flask application under vscode, dev container, python 3.12.7 64 bit, I started getting these errors: After lots of non helpful answers (at least not for me!) I stumbledacreoss this: https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy/issues/808 Turns out this really helpful comment solved the issue for me! https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy/issues/808#issuecomment-1006990063 Flask has its own built-in debugger, which IIRC…

  • Getting HTML Datepickers to Display Bound Data Correctly

    I was trying to get a HTML datepicker to show the underlying data that it was bound to, but was running into issues with the date format. The datepicker would display the date as a string in the format YYYY-MM-DD, but my backend API expected the date in the same format. I needed to ensure that…

  • Pulling a Close Button to the Right in Bootstrap 5

    I was wanting to pull a close button to the right in Bootstrap 5 recently. After some research and experimentation, I ended up finding that the text-end class is a lifesaver for this! You can even include it in the same class as the col class! Bootstrap 5 provides a variety of utility classes that make aligning elements straightforward.…

  • Taking Control of Notifications with Home Assistant

    I was getting a bit tired of getting non-stop notifications when I was mowing the front lawn. So I decided to create a toggle in Home Assistant that would pause notifications for 15 minutes. The first step was to create a button helper in Home Assistant, which would serve as the toggle switch to pause…