I’ve been snowboarding off-and-on for over 25 years but have never owned a decent snowboard. I recently decided to get a good snowboard and bindings and, like everything else I buy, I researched it t
The default GitHub.com theme is not very colorblind friendly because it is hard to distinguish hyperlinks from normal text. I’m using GitHub as an example because I use that site a lot, but I see the
Go to Firmware Page https://digilab.dremel.com/3D-Support Download Firmware Zip file and unzip it. Run dremel_firmware.exe as Admin. Plug printer into computer’s low-powered USB port - the one withou
The concept of proactive mentorship is all about encouraging both mentees and mentors to be assertive in asking for and offering help. I’m a big believer in mentorship because I’m a byproduct of many
Remove Yourself from an Azure Subscription It is not possible to remove yourself from a Subscription. You have to contact the Subscription owner to remove you. IMO a user should be able to remove th
In Azure DevOps, got this error: 2018-09-25T21:24:45.2778646Z ERROR: Error: Value cannot be null.2018-09-25T21:24:45.2791049Z Parameter name: paths2018-09-25T21:24:45.2804472Z at System.IO.Path.Com
In Azure DevOps, got this: The user's home directory could not be determined. Set the 'DOTNET_CLI_HOME' environment variable to specify the directory to use. As a workaround, add the DOTNET_CLI_HOME v
I got this the other day while doing a pip install: Cannot remove entries from nonexistent file c:\python36\lib\site-packages\easy-install.pth I searched around a bit and couldn’t find a solution. --i
My main monitor is a NEC PA322UHD and my secondary is a NEC EA275UHD. I set them both up on a new computer with a NVIDIA GeForce 745, the PA322 on DisplayPort and the EA275 on HDMI. The EA275UHD’s re
Building Python packages that support both Python 2 and 3 is time consuming and at some point you are going to ask the question “Can I just build this thing for Python 3?” Ideally, the answer to that
When you launch SpectraView II for the first time it will ask you for a serial number: “Enter the serial number you received with software” I could not find the number on the sensor box - so I contac
By default, when you run az login, it will output the subscriptions associated with your account. There’s no way to tell the Azure CLI to suppress output. If you don’t want it to print subscriptions,
If you try to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime or the Azure IoT Edge Dev Tool on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), then you will run into the following errors: ERROR: Could not login to Container Regis
You may have noticed that ConfigurationManager is not available in Azure Functions v2 .NET Standard projects. It’s no longer supported. AF v2 now uses ASPNET Core Configuration. If you add the Syste
I just published my first official distributable Python package to PyPI, which makes it available to install via pip install. It’s called Azure IoT Edge Dev Tool (PyPI, GitHub, Video) and helps IoT E
When running Python unit tests with tox, you might see the following errors: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\NuGet.targets(466,5): error : Value cannot be null. C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\NuG
A bunch of people have reported the following issue with the Azure IoT Python SDK: azure-iot-sdk-python/c/c-utility/adapters/httpapi_curl.c Func:HTTPAPI_ExecuteRequest Line:552 curl_easy_perform() fai
The Azure REST APIs require a Bearer Token Authorization header. The docs do a great job explaining every authentication requirement, but do not tell you how to quickly get started. This post will ho
When setting up Azure IoT Edge, you will most likely want to use an external config file. If you run iotedgectl setup with the --config-file option and don’t want to force passwords with the --auto-ce
You will likely want to run the Azure IoT Edge Runtime from your own Azure Container Registry (ACR). While this will be officially supported eventually, right now it is not, but there is a workaround.