Using plink (Pageant) on Windows 10 with Git for Windows

By darling | 2022-08-12

The current Git for Windows installer does not allow me to select Tortoise Plink during the installation, as was described here on Stackoverflow. Instead I followed the installation, and set an environment variable. Select “Use bundled OpenSSH” here. search for “enviro” in the Windows search. (my screenshot is in German, but it will find the…

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mailerlite API error code 422 for subscribers endpoint

By darling | 2022-05-19

Today, I was implementing the interfacing between PiCockpit.com and the Mailerlite API (which we use aus our newsletter software). https://api.mailerlite.com/api/v2/subscribers I got the following error message: The POST request was returning 422 as status code. Unfortunately there is little documentation about that on Mailerlite. My implementation was correct (this is Crystal Lang by the way):…

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npm Webpack code ELIFECYCLE errno 1

By darling | 2022-05-12

When building the PiCockpit frontend code (which is packaged using Webpack) on a different computer, I ran into the following issue: cross-env NODE_ENV=production webpack –progress –hide-modules –mode=productiontype: ‘object’,additionalProperties: true,properties: {apply: {description: ‘The run point of the plugin, required method.’,instanceof: ‘Function’,tsType: “(compiler: import(‘../lib/Compiler’)) => void”}},required: [ ‘apply’ ]}},title: ‘WebpackOptions’,description: ‘Options object as provided by the user.’,type:…

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How to manage a security breach on your server

By Maximilian Batz | 2022-02-17

Modern servers frequently run a multitude of software applications. In our case, we use Docker on the server to run multiple services. One of these services, Gitlab, had a security issue (gitlab workhorse more specifically). Which led to a trojan infection. (In our case, the binaries were called “wate” in case this matters to someone…

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Updating Variant Images in Shopify using CSV

By darling | 2021-10-27

Shopify has a possibility to update fields using a CSV file. This is useful if you want to update a lot of images. Shopify will download these images from a remote server if necessary, so you can provide URLs of your choice. You only need to provide the values you want to update, along with…

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Synchronizing file uploads between browser windows

By Maximilian Batz | 2021-08-14

For PiCockpit, I am currently developing the Digital Nose app. This app requires an upload for the BSEC configuration file – which is binary data. Once the user uploads the file, it gets published via MQTT, and picockpit-client can use it to configure the BSEC AI algorithm to do gas detection. Here is a little…

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