Posts from December 2023

Posts from December 2023 (4)

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  Published on

  2023-12-26 2:09 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azuredevopsyaml

  How to make sure your pipelines run as scheduled in Azure DevOps?

  This article explains in very brief terms - it is Christmas and I'm enjoying my 2-week-long European vacation, after all 😉 - how to make sure your Azure DevOps (YAML) pipelines fire on schedule. Because by default, they won't. And I'll explain to you why that (kind of) makes sense! Problem I've mentioned it before, but my employer is a pretty heavy user of Azure DevOps. You wouldn't believe the amount of plumbing a global SaaS product like Omnia requires - but let me tell you, it's a lot.

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  Published on

  2023-12-19 6:15 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  homeassistanthomeautomationyaml

  How to pick the cheapest hours of electricity using Home Assistant?

  Time to write about Home Assistant for a change! I've been using the home automation platform for a couple of years now and while it's immensely powerful, you also run into all kinds of issues. I could rant in length about one weather station or how difficult it is to get some stuff working on Docker on Windows (and maybe I already have!), but overall it's incredible how many complex things you can do just like that.

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  Published on

  2023-12-12 4:45 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  powershellwinget

  How to fix "The term 'winget' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program." in Windows?

  This article explains how I fixed Terminal / PowerShell being unable to locate my winget when I was trying to install something with it. This was quite unexpected as I knew for sure I had installed winget, and I had also used it before successfully. But alas, things break down and need fixing. And here's how to fix this particular issue. Problem Let's take a quick look at the actual problem first.

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  Published on

  2023-12-05 2:58 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azuredevops

  Azure DevOps suddenly not letting you manage Environments ? Sorry, it's for your own security!

  This article explains how to get around new security limitations (did I say "limitations"? I meant "features") in Azure DevOps to make it tolerable to configure your Azure DevOps Deployment Environments. Because the recent changes to Azure DevOps have made it, quite frankly, intolerable. But - let's take a step back before we take the required 15 steps forward (or sidestep the whole issue - now that's what I call a proper shortcut, and I'll share it with you too).

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