Ran into this little demon of a problem while using the Laravel built in authentication. Basically what was happening was that after I authenticated the user, it would show that it was valid and then nothing would be stored in the session. This is pretty much stock boiler plate code so of course I spent …
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Hugo Error: failed to resolve “content” to a archetype template
I have been bouncing around trying out new static site generators lately and was giving Hugo a tryout. I installed on WSL through the apt package manager and got stalled on trying to create a new content item with the “Error: failed to resolve “content” to a archetype template” error. I rummaged around and found …
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SSD’s will rapidly become cheaper in 2026 (around $30/TB or less) and by 2030 SSD’s will be lower cost per GB than spinning disks.
I predict that in 2026 we will see $30/TB SSD’s and by 2030 SSD’s will be less per GB than competing spinning disks. The primary reason to buy spinning disks will be for archival purposes and actually start to slowly actually go up in price as SSD’s continue to drop. The only thing that I …
Missing Manage Palette in Node-Red?
Top of the list of things that took way too long to figure out this week I bring you the problem where “Manage Palette” option is missing in Node-Red. I ran into this problem rather frustratingly after installing Node-Red as a service. While running it from the command line everything was working great, but once …
Facebook Webdriver / Remote Web Driver (PHP) / Selenium Ignoring Profile Settings?
I scrape pages for one of my projects, and the best way to get around anti-scraping is to occasionally fill out captchas’ / do some browsing by hand to get through the testing (usually works for a good while). Anyway I ran into a heck of a rabbit hole actually trying to tell selenium to …
Plex Web Hooks + Node Red
I spent way to much time trying to figure out why webhooks form Plex media server were not easy to parse and also why I was getting Webhook: Error delivering payload, error 408 form Plex. First – I am using a “http in” node to receive the web hook. Every “http in” web hook eventually …
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