Adam Cooper
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Adam Cooper

How to fix 'Please resolve before detaching' on a surface book

How to fix 'Please resolve before detaching' on a surface book

Adam Cooper

If you use Brave as your browser and you're also using a Surface Book (or some other Windows detachable with multiple GPUs) then this message is going to spoil your detaching fun: Please resolve before detaching The following may need to be closed in order to detach. Any unsaved changes will be lost. So why does it happen? By default, Brave uses the primary GPU which is the one in

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How to Speak

How to Speak

Adam Cooper

I used to hate public speaking; I still do but I used to too (apologies to Mitch Hedberg). But as I have spent less of my work time building and deploying software and more of it sharing why and how software is built and deployed, I've needed to get better at communicating ...

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Generate a wildcard SSL certificate behind a firewall with  Cloudflare & Docker

Generate a wildcard SSL certificate behind a firewall with Cloudflare & Docker

Adam Cooper

The wonderful Let's Encrypt makes it easy to easy to generate and install SSL certificates for free using the certbot ACME client on a webserver. But what if, like me, you want to generate and install your certs on a server behind a firewall so that you can use subdomains in your home network while keeping that network private. Yep, they make that easy too because certbot supports dns challenge

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How to add HEVC support to Windows for free

How to add HEVC support to Windows for free

Adam Cooper

#TLDR use PowerShell to install an extension. If, like me, you're both and iPhone and a Windows user you've probably come up against a friendly message telling you that. The HEVC Video Extension is required to display this file in full resolution. Download and Install it now. High Efficiency Video Coding aka HEVC aka H.265 aka MPEG-H Part 2 is a video compression standard from those nice people at