OK, not a true fix today. Not in the sense that I’d like, anyway. The gist of this is that I was trying to follow along with the JetBrains official Introduction to Coroutines and Channels tutorial. I cloned the GitHub repo, and opened in IntelliJ. When the dependencies were downloaded via Gradle, I got the … Read more
In this post I will cover a way to convert only JSON keys from snake_case format to camelCase format, without impacting the values. I hit on this problem today, and found multiple solutions that rely on code to solve this problem. I didn’t need a code solution, as my use case was something of a … Read more
A very specific issue today, but one that I found quite a nice solution for – albeit with the need to install some extra things. The issue I faced was that I have a large number of directories, each containing 10-15 images. For each directory I needed the file name, and image dimensions for every … Read more
Bit of an odd one today. I was browsing around a production system (my own, thank you), and tracing my way through some Postgres routines trying to track down why a query seemed to be returning an unexpected / outdated result. When I opened one of the routines I was met with this: The real … Read more
I’m no Spring Boot expert. Far from it. However, in the project I am working on at the moment, there is a Spring Boot API created using Kotlin that I need to support. Part of that challenge is just getting the API up and running. I’ve had a few days of head scratching with this … Read more
What I wanted was to connect from Ubuntu (currently Ubuntu 22.x but that doesn’t matter because this worked on earlier versions), over to my Macbook running Ventura 13.2.1 – but again this works for earlier versions. There’s two sides to this. You will need to configure Remmina on your Linux machine. And you will need … Read more
I suspect this problem won’t impact too many people. However, it caught me out so I figured I’d document it and share the fix. Heads up: you’re probably missing a next.config.js file. Or perhaps you have one, but it’s not got the right setting. OK, I will first share my config: That’s my Dockerfile in … Read more
A very frustrating problem for me today. With a very easy fix, I’m sure you will be glad to hear. The problem I was hitting is when running a build with NextJS, I was consistently getting a set number of pages fail to render with the error: Error occurred prerendering page. All of my pages … Read more
You may well have come across the warning in React where you are rendering out a list of things, and you forget to give each element a unique key. If you do that, you get the following showing your browser’s console: Warning: Each child in a list should have a unique “key” prop. In this … Read more
In this post we will look at how to use Google Sheets conditional formatting to change the colour of cells based on the given date. Here’s an example of what we will achieve: The conditional formatting rules I have applied here are: And it’s actually much easier than you might think (and easier than I … Read more