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How to use your Raspberry …

Intro I recently replaced my Raspberry Pi 3B+ NAS/Media Centre with a Raspberry Pi 4B+ and it occurred to me that others may want to do likewise, so here goes. Why a Raspberry Pi? In truth theres a few reasons: When I first done this on my Raspberry Pi 3B, I was frustrated by limitations (lack of …

VS Code: Dialog PopUnder Bug and how to live with it
VS Code: Dialog PopUnder …

Image by James Wainscoat on Unsplash Intro I recently hit upon an annoying problem when using VS Code and wanted to share with you how I worked around it. The Problem I was trying to run some powershell commands against Azure Active Directory using the AzureAD Powershell module to query and …

Azure: Context is king
Azure: Context is king

Image by mohammad takhsh on Unsplash Intro A quick post just to get me back into the routine, and to cover off an issue that I encountered recently, and how to resolve it. The problem I hadn’t done anything in Azure at home for a while and tonight I wanted to manage some VMs of mine from AZ …

Handle website redirects …

In my last post, I mentioned that I’d hit a little snag when I was migrating my live site over to my new architecture. When I built my test site it always used a subdomain (beta.cirriustech.co.uk) so I never had any issue with DNS. However, when I migrated my live site over, I had built it …

New site now live!

Much later than planned, I’ve completed the cutover to my new Hugo static site in production, as written about in my last post. A number of factors delayed it. Mostly private, which I won’t go into here, but also some technical ones too that I put aside for a while due to the above. …

Say Hello World to Hugo!

In my recent posts, I spent a lot of time talking about Hugo and Static Websites in Azure. I’ve now finished converting the content from this existing blog over to Hugo, underpinned by: Azure Static Websites Azure Storage Azure DevOps Azure Functions Cloudflare CDN It’s now available to …