Daniaal Nadir

In this post I go through how I resized the root disk on a Linux Container in Proxmox as it proved to be a challenge to find a way to shrink the size of the root disk. The Problem I had a LXC container which was hosting emby. In emby

Flashing this device to the latest firmware is fairly straight forward. The reason I wanted to flash the device is because I want to use this as the ZigBee controller for my Phillips Hue lights and I want to control them via HomeAssistant and by flashing the device, it will

Unit tests are an extremely important part of software development. It ensures a reliable and robust engineering environment where quality is paramount. In my opinion the biggest advantage is that we dramatically reduce bugs in production. This is because if we make changes in one section of the codebase, this

I have had an Office 365 account for a while that had services like Microsoft Teams and Azure however I no longer needed this. To delete the account you have to follow multiple steps. Use this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/close-your-account?view=o365-worldwide The issue was

Whilst browsing through GitHub repositories, I noticed that some people had a fancy profile and I was really curious to how they got that to work. This post goes through how you can make your GitHub profile look that bit better and to top it off, it surprisingly easy. Firstly,

I have been working on a project and wanted to document our APIs to make it easy to see what endpoints we have. Luckily there is a tool called Swagger/OpenAPI and this is a language-agnostic specification for describing REST APIs. It generates a JSON file which is then used

This blog post goes over a clean way to access your configuration variables in your .NET project instead of passing IConfiguration directly into services. The thing I don't like about passing IConfiguration directly into services is that all the app settings were available to the service even if it doesn't

I have recently come across an issue where I wanted to return status codes by throwing an exception. So for example, if I throw a NotFoundException (this would be a custom exception) then I would want that to return a 404 error. As a result, I wanted to better handle