A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
ERROR: (gcloud.run.deploy) PERMISSION_DENIED: The caller does not have permission”
Google Cloud Build is cool. Google Cloud Run is awesome. But when configuring Google Cloud Build to automatically deploy your built container to Google Cloud Run you might see this error: ERROR: (gcloud.run.deploy) PERMISSION_DENIED: The caller does not have permission If you’re seeing this error you forgot to set up the required IAM Permissions for …
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash One moment you’re excited about your son who’s about to be born, the other moment you’re in fear that he might not make it. One moment you’re overly happy because your son did make it thanks to the help of doctors and medical staff, the other moment you’re shocked …
I’m proud to announce that my son NOAH was born on January 22, 2020. It was a long and bumpy road to get to the finish line, but all turned out well in the end. I’m very grateful that we have the means for and access to such a good healthcare system; without the help …
Today I needed to debug an IMAP problem. I got reports from a user (whose password I recently rotated) that Outlook wouldn’t connect, even though they had updated the password in Outlook’s settings. Checking things on the server I noticed that the connection to the server was made, but the login attempt always failed. As …
git squash-all
Freek just shared his workflow to squash all git commits into one single commit — Handy for when you’re pushing a first public release of a project. His process involves removing the .git folder and starting off fresh again with a git init. Wondering if there are handier/shorter ways to achieve this I set off …
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Yesterday evening I was working on a documentation page. The page layout is quite classic, as it consists of a content pane on the left and a sidebar navigation on the right. Looking for a way to make the page less dull I decided to add a few small things to it: Smooth Scrolling when …
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Ever since mid december I’ve had a few reports from people that they were seeing my blog – the thing you’re reading now – rendered in unreadable text. Instead of seeing a nice serif font, they got presented with some wingdings-like symbols for all the text when visiting through Chrome on macOS. Hmm, unreadable on …
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# Individual Transform Properties New in Firefox 72 is the ability to individually define CSS Transform Properties. You can now separately define scale, rotate, and translate CSS properties, instead of having to chuff them all into one single transform property. The translate, rotate, and scale properties allow authors to specify simple transforms independently, in a …
String.prototype.replaceAll
UPDATE June 2020: This feature has advanced to Stage-4 and will be part of the ES2021 Specification! 🎉 An ECMAScript Language feature that’s currently in Stage-3 is String.prototype.replaceAll, a handy way to replace all instances of a piece of text in a string. ~ The Problem If you ever needed to replace a piece of …
On some sites you don’t want the screen to dim (and eventually turn off) when left idle. Think of a run-tracking app, a puzzle game that takes device motion input, a recipe site for example: you’d want to keep the screen awake even if there is no touch input. This is where the Wake Lock …