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I have been struggling for a couple of days working with Google Cloud Scheduler and Cloud functions for a project I’m working on. I’ve been working with functions for a while now. It’s a good idea to secure all your functions so that only other cloud services can access them. This can be done using […]

If you’re anything like me, and you go for bleeding edge releases to see what they’re like, there can be some drawbacks. The biggest being there is close to no updated documentation when trying to install common packages. I decided to give Debian 12 a try after not using Debian since version 3. I was […]

Welcome back to the world of Red Hat and enterprise Linux and dependencies you don’t get in server software but you do in other distributions, like Fedora or Ubuntu. Installing Dropbox on Red Hat has a few command line steps and some compile time. Due to the fact that this is server software and you […]

This article will outline how to fix Universal control Logitech scroll wheel not working on other devices. Apple introduced a new feature in Monterey 12.3 called Universal Control. This allows you to use a single keyboard and mouse across multiple devices. Tools like Synergy have been around for a number of years that allow you […]

After many years of paying for my Adobe subscription, I decided to see what Adobe Creative Suite alternatives were available. The reason I cancelled was mostly due to the fact I wasn’t utilising the applications, the outrageous costs and their products no longer living up to expectations. The cost benefit ratio for using the Adobe […]

Need to Disable WooCommerce Setup Wizard? Keep reading. WooCommerce introduced a new ‘setup’ wizard which is really just a front for them to upsell you a bunch of their services and plugins. It doesn’t actually set up your store at all. After you go through five pages of marketing crud, you then get dropped back […]

HEVC Windows issues are stupid and make no sense. You may or may not have heard of this new HEVC video codec that a lot of drones, phones and newer camera’s record their video in. It’s been a long time since I’ve needed to check if my hardware was good enough to playback a video […]

As a long-time Apple user, I’ll usually try their products at some point. I’ve been using Apple music for a couple of months now and I have to say, it’s kind of terrible. There are so many things wrong with this service that I find myself going back to my old archive of music sitting […]

Are you running your WordPress install behind an SSL proxy or load balancer like HAProxy? You may also be running WP-CLI on the internal site. To get SSL to pass-through correctly a lot of sites have outlined that you need to add the following code to your wp-config.php Although this is almost correct, the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO […]

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