Daniaal Nadir

Recently I needed to access a resource locally on my network whilst I was away and I had no way to do this. Straight away, I knew what I needed to do. I have used Tailscale before so I knew this was the solution for me. Tailscale is a great

Firstly we need the latest version of Nginx on Debian. Now the default list doesn't actually have the latest version of Nginx so you may find that some properties are not available. So to get the latest version we need to add a new source. You can do

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,

A few months ago, I deployed my blog using Ghost however I came upon many issues when trying to host it on Azure by following other tutorials available on the web. Just to get up and running, I used the Ghost docker image and then just wired up my configuration

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

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