Windows Hello PIN - "Something Went Wrong"
I recently had to setup a pin using the "Windows Hello" feature. When following the prompts, I would invariably get an error message saying "Something Went Wrong", without any…
Writings
This is a place where I take notes of the new things I learn. It's quite eclectic, so the tags on the right should help you navigate the content.
I have set up a new home server recently, and I needed to be able to connect to it via SSH. I had done it numerous times in the past but creating the private/key pair, copying the public key to the… I was watching an interview on Youtube called “ Religion Explained through Evolution “. They had a couple of interesting points I had not heard before. What I had heard before was that “religion… I have a small Ubuntu server running at home. I use it as a NAS and to host lightweight applications like a photo gallery tool. Since its resources are quite limited, I would like to know how the RAM… ...Or how to navigate confusing numbers That was it. The battery died after 10 minutes of use only. The screen split after one too many trips to the library. The keyboard never recovered from its… So, there are some interesting nuances when it comes to watch manufacturing. It is essentially a spectrum. A website I found ( The Naked Watchmaker ) was referring to it as "T phases". It is… I recently watched an interview between Teddy Baldassarre and Jean-Claude Biver on YouTube, called The Future of the Watch Industry with Jean-Claude Biver . I really liked the personality of Mr Biver.… I recently stumbled upon the world of watch modding. I have been curious about the world of horology for a long time. Even the concept of time has always been a favorite of mine. I am a big fan of any… As I say in my first post, I am very new to the world of watches. Let's go over some vocabulary: The band is also called a strap . The "container" of a watch is called a case . The thicker… Context I have tried several time to build the chess logic, and gave up every time. I am very happy to have completed it. I used the most naive data structures and algorithms in this logic, but that's… [edit 2026]: I ended up using bootstrap studio for a while not long after writing this article. I built a simple application with it. Overall it is pretty good for simple needs. The appplication I was… I have followed these instructions from the Postgres documentation : # Create the file repository configuration: sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release… [edit 2026]: this idea was short lived and is not available anymore... For the longest time I had wanted to create an online service useful enough for people to pay for it. There are different ways to… Careful! I was using the Twilio SMS API for the MVP of Gentle Finance , and I realized too late that Canadian and US numbers can't receive sms from international numbers! Since part of my user base is… I recently needed to install a linux server on a new computer. The current operating system was windows 11. I decided to go with Ubuntu server. After following their instructions on how to download… I recently needed to generate a self-signed certificate to test a website locally. I wasn't familiar with the process, and I wanted to share here what I learned. First, we need a private key. A… Hello! I wanted to learn GUI rpogramming in C++. One of the main libraries for this purpose is called wxWidgets. It's very popular and seem powerful enough to make even a complex graphical interface.… I wanted to create a GUI program using C and GTK. I am using a windows operating system, so I had followed the instructions from the GTK Windows installation page. However, when trying to compile my… I am currently waiting for Google to activate the SSL certificate on my custom domain name. Instead of checking every so often manually, I have created a small Power Shell script to do it for me every… [edit january 27th 2021]: It seems like Windows Terminal's cd command is not case sensitive. What I think happened is that I probably switched to a directory using the wrong case. This morning I tried… My situation is: Coding with vue in a Vue file. Using the Vetur plugin in VS code It then generates an error of type x-invalid-end-tag in a quite random fashion. To solve it, I have found one simple… I had to switch to windows as my main dev environment recently. The npm script I used to run my tests is sligthly different the one on Linux. On Windows, I have to use: { test: "nodemon --ignore… OpenSSH is available by default on Windows! Make sure that it's available in the additional features menu. Then activate the Open SSH service (it seems to be deactivated by default) use the command… I have started to take some challenges on the website called Try Hack Me . I think it's a great way to be more aware of the potential security flaws of my own applications. Plus let's be honest, it's… [edit 2026]: this is a very old post, I don't use windows anymore, I don't know if this still works. My application runs a web server connected to a MongoDB database. For all my development needs, I… When starting the node app, use the --max_old_space_size option. This variable is in megabytes. This is more or less controlling how much memory can be used for garbage collection. It is recommended… In the app I am making, users can specify time slots for their projects. I need some kind of calendar view that would allow for this interaction. I mostly know what I want to do. This user interface… [edit 2026]: This is a very old article, I don't use it anymore obviously. Here is a snippet I use in Visual Studio to initialize a new React component: "React component": {… Sometimes we don't want to display the full object stored in mongo to our user. One way of handling this is to query all the relevant documents, iterate on all of them programmatically and filter out… [edit 2026] The blog mentioned in this post is the one you are currently reading, 6 years later! This week I have finished the first version of a class about how to link redux and Firebase auth using… I use git regularly, but I am not an expert. Sometimes I want to do something very simple, and I end up executing a chain of command leading me to a point where nothing make sense anymore in my… I am working on the authentication part of my next product. Even if I made some progress, I could not work as much as possible yesterday. I only figured out how to have more than one Firebase project… I am writing a node app. I needed to centralize my logging system so I can easily manage the logs from one environment to another, and add more features to it. I know there are packages for that, and… JSDoc is a specific syntax to document your code. There are a few advantages to use it: The documentation is directly where it's useful (in the code). This way, it's also much easier to update when… By default, when creating a react app with the create-react-app tool, the local server is run on the port 3000. To change it, create a .env file at the root of the project, and type PORT=8080 in it.… The HTML editor of Blogger supports multiple cursors editing! I am pretty new on this platform, and I was not expected this at all. To create multiple cursors on multiple lines, hold Alt, click on the… Before running the actual validation functions, mongoose will try to cast the model's value into their type declared in the schema. If the cast operation is successful, then mongoose continues to the… Nodemon is a useful tool to react to code changes. I use it all the time when working on Nodejs backend. Here are three useful options I have learnt today: --exec allows one to run non node code. ex:… When using built-in validations in a mongoose model, it's possible to trigger a model validation. For example if you received user inputs, and created a new instance of your model, it's possible to… If the value is set to empty string, it just falls back to the css file the class is associated to! So, for example, take a CSS class defined as: .test{ display: block; } If one sets… A digital product can either: Move data from one point to another. Connect people together. Automate processes. What does yours do? To find the closest parent of a specific HTML type (div, ul, etc...) use the closest method. It takes query selectors as parameters. var closestElement = targetElement.closest(selectors); MDN docs… The hash fragments of a URL (the part after a #), is never pass to the server! Example: https://example.com/user/12345#profile . If this is sent to a server via axios, the URL will not contain the…Certificate Based SSH Authentication
Three Buiding Blocks for Human Belief Systems
Ubuntu Server Monitoring
How To Pick a Laptop?
Watch's parts
The future of the watch industry
What is watch modding?
Watch's parts
Building a chess game in Go
WYSIWYG editor for complex web applications
Installing Postgres on Linux Lite (Ubuntu)
I have finished an MVP!
Twilio SMS API can't receive...SMS
Windows 11, bootable USB device not detected
Understanding self-signed certificates with Openssl (using git windows bash)
How to Compile a GTK4 program on Windows (using MSYS)
How to Compile a GTK4 program on Windows (using MSYS)
How to Check your SSL Certificate Activation Automatically in Windows
Solution for building errors with Vuejs 3
Fixing x-invalid-end-tag lint error on Vuejs
How to activate the SSH agent on Windows
How to activate the SSH agent on Windows
How to List all the "Normal Users" in Linux
Connecting to MongoDB from WSL2
Controlling Nodejs RAM Usage
Standup - Calendar View of Easy Timetable
Here is a VSCode Snippet for Generating a New React Component
Filter Documents' Attributes in a Mongoose Query
Standup - Two Days of Coding Ahead
Last Resort in Git, Reflog to the Rescue!
Standup - Firebase Authentication, the End?
Quick Logger Function for Nodejs Projects
What is JSDoc and Where to Start?
How to Change the Local Port in a React Application
Use the Multi Cursors in the HTML Blogger editor!
How to Enforce Type Validation in a Mongoose Schema
Three Nodemon Useful Options
How to Progamatically Validate a Mongoose Model Instance
Empty style.display in CSS
Digital Product Categories
First Parent of an HTML element
Hash Fragment of a URL on the Server Side