Posts from January 2020

Posts from January 2020 (5)

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  Published on

  2020-01-29 5:45 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  androidcustomromlenovolineageos

  How to use TWRP to flash an Android device that refuses to boot to TWRP?

  Last Christmas holiday I was tasked by older relatives to fix an Android tablet they had bought. One of those absolutely useless, 100€ devices that can't really run any apps, and struggle to even start. My first proposition was to return the device - but it was already past the return window. Lenovo 's bloated nightmare version of an Android was likely the biggest reason for slowness.

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  Published on

  2020-01-22 8:01 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azureazurefunctions

  Azure Functions host quits with "The system cannot find the file specified"

  So, another interesting issue I ran into when developing Azure Functions locally. What an endless bag of funsies! 😁 This time, the issue was simple but infuriating - my Azure Functions host would just silently close when debugging: none of the breakpoints would be hit, and no information would be logged anywhere. Azure Functions Core Tools (2.4.432 Commit hash: 3371a87e0fce2aa35986c0de8e77d5d618163b91) Function Runtime Version: 2.0.12332.

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  Published on

  2020-01-22 5:38 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azureazurefunctions

  How to extract more information out of your Azure Functions host failing silently?

  I don't know about you, but it's happened to me a few times: fire up your Azure functions project, hit F5 to start debugging project builds without errors, Azure Functions host starts... And shuts down right away. This article has a few quick and simple tips on how to extract a bit more information from the Azure Functions host (func.exe) , when it's just silently failing. This means by default you won't get any information about what's going wrong.

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  Published on

  2020-01-14 9:13 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  chmodwordpress

  An easy fix for WordPress media uploads failing after a year/month change

  This article explains one possible fix to a situation, where your pictures in WordPress fail to show up. In this particular case, uploading, editing and even selecting pictures for your articles works - just displaying them doesn't work. Alternatively, programmatic access might fail as well: in my case, ShortPixel reported an error "There was an error and your request was not processed: Could not download the file (404 Not Found)".

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  Published on

  2020-01-09 3:04 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azuretls

  App Service refuses connections with error: "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it"

  This blog post describes a very specific fix to a very specific issue. In a software project that consisted of a desktop client application and some APIs hosted on Azure, we ran into an error where some connections to APIs would fail with an error like this: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. What gives?

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