Wasting Time

I recently upgraded my Pixel 6 to a Pixel 8a. While the transition was mostly smooth, I encountered an issue with missing shortcuts, including both URL web shortcuts and OneNote shortcuts. Here’s how I resolved the problem. Missing Shortcuts After Upgrade After upgrading, I noticed that none of my web shortcuts or OneNote shortcuts appeared on the home screen. Initially, I thought I could simply re-add them, but this proved more complicated than expected. ...

Update to claiming new Docs It’s been a while since my last update on claiming new Doc Martens for life, and there’s great news to share. The process has recently been revamped, making it more convenient for all Doc Martens enthusiasts. Rather than the previous method of cutting up your old Docs and waiting for a replacement, the company has streamlined the procedure, as outlined in their guidance: “Thank you for contacting Dr. Martens. If you wish to claim on your FOR LIFE footwear under the terms of our guarantee, please send us an email with the following information: ...

Infinite scroll in Playwright It’s not achievable “out of the box” to enable playwright infinite scrolling and there seems little in the way of anything online advising how you can enable this in your tests. So, here’s how you can achieve infinite scrolling with Playwright. Fire up Visual Studio and ensure Playwright is installed and get hacking. Implementation Detail It’s actually pretty easy. Firstly, select an element for a bounding box. I went with html…. ...

Like every band and artist, dates originally scheduled 2 years ago have been punted back further and further. Tickets yellowing with age as we come out of the pandemic. Seemed like this tour of Hugh’s was originally scheduled a lifetime ago. Strange how he’s promoting his “new album” that came out in 2018 but such is the void of time during the pandemic. Hugh Cornwell and band are doing almost 2 tours in one. They’re supporting the Undertones with a series of dates up and down the UK whilst Hugh and band are playing dates in their own right in between Undertones gigs. ...

I dunno maybe because it’s near Halloween or maybe because I chanced upon my original post of this on my Stranglers forums today but here’s my original review from 2008 of the Wickerman Festival. Note I gave up the ciggies and meat eating some years go. Anyway over to me 13 years ago….. So just got back from the Wickerman and after approximately 5 hours kip in 2 days plus 40 cigs, 17 beers, too much sun, too much rain, too much walking through clouds! it’s safe to say that I’m cream crackered with tinitus and a mother of all headaches. However, that said I’m very happy after being to one of the best festivals ever. ...

First Indoor Gig Post Lockdown Arriving at the venue around 7.30 in order to catch the support (Low Hummer) I had some trepidation about my first indoor gig post covid. Would their be a reduction on the audience size? (no), would everyone be wearing masks? (no). I guess there’s a point where you just have to get on with it. At least the door staff were pretty rigorous checking that everyone had been double jabbed or proof of a negative test. Although, I’m not sure if they were as rigorous once the queue size grew more than the 20 people that were walking up at 7.30. Anyway in we go…… ...

First Post Lockdown Gig My first post lockdown gig was a grand event the Manics, Sea Power and Low Hummer all on the bill in the wonderful setting of Halifax’s Piece Hall. Low Hummer Sea Power The recently renamed “Sea Power”…. ...

Introduction This post focuses on some of the current options available for multi-platform software development. Blazor with Maui, WinUI with Webview2 and Electron with Blazor are all considered. Please note that at time of writing Blazor and Maui are currently in preview. The Requirement I need to build an app that will act in a similar way to OneDrive. It needs to have the following:- Ability to minimise to System Tray Interaction with Toast Notifications via the Notifications API Multi platform support Ability to reuse pre-written React components Has to allow for development in C#, JS. Xaml can be used. Essentially, something that a mid-Senior development team can take forward. Please note that any business context will not be included, along with any code relating to that. ...

The Error “The Token obtained from the Token Provider is wrong”. Working with WinUI3 I came to the conclusion that Azure Notification Hub WNS Raw notification functionality just wasn’t supported yet. But digging deeper this is a genuine issue. Wiring up the Azure notification endpoint/channel successfully I was left scratching my head when sending a test notification from Azure Notification Hub and receiving the following error PackageCertificateFileKey There’s very little on this issue when doing a google search on “The Token obtained from the Token Provider is wrong”. This is caused by a self signed certificate entry in the csproj file. Mainly the <PackageCertificateFileKey>. If you remove that element you’re good to go. ...

Having been to Keldy before (my Forest Holiday Keldy review) I was pleasantly surprised when we won a weekend holiday to one of their Forest Holiday locations. Given a choice of where in the UK to go I decided on Keldy as I’d been to this location before and really enjoyed it. Forest Holiday Silver Birch Cabin Review This time around we were in the Silver Birch cabin. We’d usually stay in a Golden Oak but there was much of a difference really. I guess the slight snag and thing to be aware of is that the fridge and freezer are combined. I’d find it difficult to store away an entire week’s worth of food in them. Aside from that there wasn’t much noticeable difference between the cabins. ...