Laravel not logging in users

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 …

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 …

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 …