Posts from June 2024

Posts from June 2024 (3)

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  Published on

  2024-06-18 7:48 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  certificatesopensslpowershell

  How to generate Certificate-Signing Requests using OpenSSL

  This article explains how to generate a CSR using the OpenSSL CLI toolkit. We'll go through a step-by-step guide to create a private key and a CSR. This should be helpful for system administrators and developers who need to set up secure connections for their servers or applications. In the code samples, you can see how some undefined sausage is made, and it's not pretty. But it works.

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  Published on

  2024-06-11 11:33 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  homeassistanthomeautomation

  Home Assistant 2024.4 changes weather forecasts - what to do?

  This article explains how to fix your template sensors, automations and other functionality that is broken by the 2024.4 update of the Home Assistant platform, where forecasts are removed from weather entities. Fixing the issue requires some YAML, and while you'll loose debuggability and possibly encounter some performance hits and run awry of your weather provider's rate limits, what wouldn't we do to keep up-to-date with the latest community goodness of Home Assistant?

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  Published on

  2024-06-04 3:32 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  nodenpmvisual-studiovite

  External path "**" cannot have more than one "*" wildcard with vite?

  This article explains a couple of workarounds to a frustrating issue I had with vite and yet-another-weird-frontend-build-toolkit. Because every toolchain for frontend stuff is different, apparently. And they all fail in different ways. Anyway - let's get to it. Background I was just creating a tiny bugfix to an older project, minding my own business, not bothering anyone, when all of a sudden my development environment practically just imploded. Any backend builds worked just fine.

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