Although builds were succeeding locally, during CI builds were failing on Linux with the error Error: Cannot find module @rollup/rollup-linux-x64-gnu. npm has a bug related to optional dependencies. The log suggested removing package-lock.json – but this obviously breaks deterministic builds. The root cause is a missing dependency – specifically, when Rollup needs native binaries for…

This post is mainly a reminder to myself, because i’ve made the same mistake a few times in different projects. How and why to deploy Azure functions from a package When using Azure Functions, you can simplify deployment and maintenance of your function by deploying from a package file rather than directly in to the…

Another post which is more to remind me than anything else. When creating an Azure Function in Pulumi, you may get the following error: Cannot modify this site because another operation is in progress After a bit of digging, i found this issue on the Pulumi repo, which points to a page on the Azure…

When uploading images to WordPress, you may get this error. There are plenty of blogs online offering solutions, but they only apply to self-hosted instances – mine is hosted on just-what-i-find.onyx-sites.io/. The error is a little pop up with the text The response is not a valid JSON response at the bottom of the screen…

When running apt-get update i was seeing these errors: I was getting this error after migrating keys from the old, legacy store to a the shiny new one. A quick inspection shows that the new keys have different permissions to the existing ones The fix is pretty simple. Pick one of the pre-existing GPG keys,…

While running apt-get update I was seeing errors: Although the warning is annoying, it doesn’t stop things updating. I understand the reasons why the legacy keyring is being removed. Migrate existing keys to the new keyring First, list the keys: In my case, i’ve got two – one for PostgreSQL and one for timescaledb. You…

After following the instructions on the MS website to establish a KeyVault reference and place that in my App Settings, I set up a Managed Service Identity and grant that identity access to my KeyVault key. Next, wishing to follow Microsoft’s advice and secured a firewall around the KeyVault, ensuring that I checked the Allow…

Some repos, such a the one for the Unifi Controller, use different ‘field’ values to tie a release and require manual updates. For someone like me who has a standalone, automated controller setup designed mainly to keep the firmware up to date without much intervention, this is a hassle. It looks something like this: It’s…

I was connecting from my macbook to a SQL Azure Database when i hit the following error: The solution was to install the ODBC driver, following the instructions on the Microsoft website:

The ZFS Pool on my server was showing degraded state. After checking the SMART status of the constituent drives and finding no problem, I discovered that there’s a bug in Solaris 10.5 where the system reports a growing number of errors and eventually fails the pool. dmesg shows an error unable to kmem_alloc enough memory…