Codeception: Tell Chrome to automatically accept desktop notifications
If you’re building a site that makes use of the handy Web Notifications API and want to test it in Codeception, you might want to tell your browser to enable notifications for the site. I had to fiddle a bit before getting this right, so hopefully it’ll help somebody. In your xxx-acceptance.suite.yml, here are a […]
LetsEncrypt on Amazon Linux
This one’s pretty simple. I started with Ivo Petkov’s excellent notes and O-mkar’s question and self-answer to get LetsEncrypt up on my EC2 instance, then added a cron job. TL;DR: sudo bash yum install python27-devel git git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt /opt/letsencrypt unset PYTHON_INSTALL_LAYOUT /opt/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto –debug echo “rsa-key-size = 4096” >> /etc/letsencrypt/config.ini echo “email = email@example.com” >> /etc/letsencrypt/config.ini unset PYTHON_INSTALL_LAYOUT […]
How to move Google Authenticator to a New Unrooted Android Phone
I just picked up a new Galaxy S4, since they’re going cheap now that the S5 is out. I’ve had my trusty S2 for a number of years, and it’s been hacked around, rooted, had Cyanogenmod on it and everything else you do to a phone that’s out of warranty. But now it’s time to […]
Working with Github pull requests on other people’s repos
Working with third party libraries, composer and github pull requests…
DVD Region Unlocking a Samsung HT-E5550W Home Theatre
With thanks to “choochoo” on Whirlpool, I found the following notes on how to DVD region unlock a Samsung HT-E5550W home theatre.
Upgrading NetGear Stora NAS drives Without Copying Data
This article shows how I managed to upgrade my Netgear Stora from 1TB RAID1 to 2TB without having to move the data off the device before changing drives.