MERGE CONFLICTS IN git are a normal part of collaboration. But, sometimes you end up in situations of solving the same trivial conflict again and again. That was my situation at $WORK on a busy GitHub Actions pipeline project. The problem GitHub recommends pinning actions to full commit SHAs for Read more…
GIT TAB COMPLETION in zsh suddenly stopped listing my aliases. No git ls, no git tags-ls – only built-in commands. Worse, commands beyond the most common ones lost their help descriptions entirely. git re<tab> would show rebase, reset, restore with nice descriptions, but git rep<tab> fell through to a bare Read more…
SWITCHING ANDROID PHONES is something all Android phone users eventually will need to do. Since invention of the smart phone, more and more of daily life has progressed to be backed by an app. Be it public transportation, car parking, grocery shopping, banking, listening to music or streaming videos. It Read more…
ANDROID TRUSTY TEE is failing on my Pixel 7a (Android 15) and causing my phone to randomly waiting at the SIM pin login in the mornings. This is the short conclusion of my findings, for an issue I currently have with my phone. When waking up at the morning, I Read more…
ESET RUNTIME ERROR because of locale settings. That is what I by coincident discovered one day, when looking at the Ubuntu syslog for other things. ESET is a malware protection software that is bestowed upon us by $WORK. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux and usually it doesn’t make Read more…
I STARTED A new job and thus was handed a new laptop, a Dell 5470. It came with Windows (not familiar with Windows versions, but looked differently that last time a had a Windows booted), so I quickly installed Linux on it. On first day commuting home, I realized the Read more…
GITHUB PR TEMPLATES are one of the many tools github provide to enhance daily use. This feature allows to “dump” some self-defined markdown into the PR description field upon creation of PR’s. In my current team at work we do a lot of automated testing. All updates to the test Read more…
AFTER INSTALLING GARMIN Connect IQ SDK on Ubuntu-20, using the script I created in Installing Garmin Connect IQ SDK on Ubuntu-20, I realized that building would work fine, but the simulator wouldn’t run due to the same dependency issue. ./bin/sdkmanager: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object Read more…
GARMIN HAS LINUX support for their developer SDK which is awesome! Unfortunately the installer for the Garmin Connect IQ SDK, is a GTK based application that utilizes an older version of libwebkit which is available for Ubuntu-18 only. You’ll end up with an error like this: ./bin/sdkmanager: error while loading Read more…