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Tech Tip – Not all certificates are the same
I have been trying to build a model in Azure to start modernizing one of our applications. Part of that is configuring an application gateway correctly and getting end-to-end SSL configured. As it turns out, not all certificates are good certificates, at least to Azure. Uploading the Cert I have a wildcard certificate for a…
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You can’t trust anyone…
Did I “hack” a major online website. You could call it that. If using the browser’s built-in developer tools to change an element id so that I could submit my order… well, then, yes. I “hacked” the site so I could buy something…. “Refresh your cache” and other tall tales I was helping someone I…
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When browsers have a mind of their own…
I recently implemented Cloudflare on my domains to allow me some protection on my domains. There were some unintended side effects, and it seems to have to do with my browser’s DNS. Internal Site Management All of my mattgerega.com and mattgerega.org sites are available outside of my network, so putting Cloudflare in front as a…
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Collecting WCF Telemetry with Application Insights
I got pulled back in to diagnosing performance issues on an old friend, and it lead me into some dead code with a chance for resuscitation. Trouble with the WCF One of our applications has a set of WCF Services that serve the client. We had not instrumented them manually for performance metrics, although we…
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Aging into fun
It is obvious that my posts have been, well, tech-centric for the better part of the last year. I do my best to not post specifics about my kids because, well, their life is theirs to live, not mine to post. But I have to credit them with introducing me to an activity that keeps…
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Maturing my Grafana setup
I may have lost some dashboards and configuration recently, and it got me thinking about how to mature my Grafana setup for better persistence. Initial Setup When I first got Grafana running, it was based on the packaged Grafana Helm chart. As such, my Grafana instance was using SQLite database file stored in the persistent…
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Why I am not using Resharper anymore
I have been a subscriber to JetBrains Resharper for a number of years. Additionally, my employer carries a number of licenses for Resharper, and some teams still use it. But I recently decided to cancel my subscription, and it might be worth a few words as to why. IDEs are uniquely personal To developers, IDEs…
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Tech Tip – Configuring RKE2 Nginx Ingress using a HelmChartConfig Resource
The RKE2 documentation is there, but, well, it is not quite as detailed as I have seen in other areas. This is a quick tip for customizing your Nginx Ingress controllers when using RKE2 Using Nginx Ingress in RKE2 By default, an RKE2 cluster deploys the nginx-ingress Helm chart. That’s great, except that you may…
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Literally every time I go away…
It really truly seems like every time I go away, something funny happens in the lab and stuff goes down. That pattern continued last week. Loads of Travel A previously planned Jamaican getaway butted up against a short-notice business meeting in Austin. Since I could not get a direct flight to either location, I ended…
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Speed. I.. am.. Speed.
“One winner, 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast. A little brekie could be good for me….” My quest for speed lead to using 1TB of data every day…