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Shopify: enable access to webhook creation for staff

By Maximilian Batz | 2023-10-02

Unfortunately this is not documented on Shopify’s own help. To give staff members (e.g. developers) permission to add webhooks on Shopify, they need the Store Settings / Manage settings permission, possibly also “View customer events” and “Manage and add custom pixels” and “Store policies” permissions: setting these up in addition to App development helped my…

Code der Aufschubart im Aufschub-BIN-Antrag

By Maximilian Batz | 2023-07-25

Ich bin gerade dabei für unsere neu umstrukturierte Firmierung, pi3g GmbH & Co. KG den Zahlungsaufschub zu beantragen. Bei dem Formular 0873, dem Aufschub-BIN-Antrag, war mir der Wert den ich in “Code für die Aufschubart” einfüllen muss unklar. Eine Google-Suche hat nichts sinnvolles ergeben, außer dem Hinweis “ Bitte tragen Sie hier den Code für…

The role of ARM based SBC devices vs. X86 based devices and market trends in 2023

By Maximilian Batz | 2023-04-20

According to GPT4, As of 2021, the global ARM-based processor market size was valued at around $17.7 billion, with IoT devices accounting for a significant portion of the market. Intel and other x86 based devices still dominate the market, the corresponding market size was (of course) much bigger in 2021. Remember that originally, mainframes (such…

Practical coding questions answered by GPT3: is it ready for the prime time?

By Maximilian Batz | 2023-03-11

You can easily try GPT3 for yourself, simply register for an OpenAI account, and you will get (at the time of writing this) 18 USD of credit. Head on over to the following link: https://platform.openai.com/playground Here you can enter your question, and submit it. GPT3 will answer in the same text box. There are three…

Kemal routing redirecting a subtree

By Maximilian Batz | 2022-12-12

This code snippet shows you how to redirect an entire subtree and remove the first part of the subtree. This might come in useful, for example when you have outside links referencing different languages (e.g. /de /fr /it) and content paths in them, and you want to serve everything from the same endpoints. Crystal Lang…

Using Cloudflare’s APO to cache a mixed WordPress and Application website

By Maximilian Batz | 2022-10-31

picockpit.com is our Raspberry Pi web OS application – it has a WordPress blog (for content marketing and support) set up in a subdirectory, on picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/ Google Analytics showed me that the PiCockpit blog was loading slower in important countries, like the US. Here is a screenshot of a performance test, before optimizing the page…

Coral USB inference not working on Windows 10 (ValueError: Failed to load delegate from edgetpu.dll)

By Maximilian Batz | 2022-10-19

Update: It looks like the Error has ben fixed with the installer version from Octobre 24th 2022. Following the install instructions for Windows on the Coral website, I got the following error: The last line, “ValueError: Failed to load delegate from edgetpu.dll” usually means that no Coral USB device could be recognized. (If you unplug…

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

By Maximilian Batz | 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…

mailerlite API error code 422 for subscribers endpoint

By Maximilian Batz | 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):…

npm Webpack code ELIFECYCLE errno 1

By Maximilian Batz | 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:…