I was getting errors from Certbot invalid response from .well-known/acme-challenge It took a lot of messing around but the problem lay with a Cloudflare setting. SSL/TLS -> Edge Certificates -> Always Use HTTPS Redirect all requests with scheme “http” to “https”. This applies to all http requests to the zone.…
Businesses are usually around for longer than individual employees’ tenures. At some point, someone else has to take over your workload. If you have an owner mindset rather than a custodian mindset this is difficult. Handovers are not easy. Trying to cover all bases and think of everything you might…
Framework choices can be critical. The wrong choice is going to cause a big increase in the amount of technical debt a project has and can harm the onboarding process for new employees, which already carries a high opportunity cost. Problematic choices: Flavour of the month Too dated Custom All…
Opportunity costs are so often missed in a myriad of different areas. For software engineering we of course have them too. If you’ve not read The Mythical Man Month, you may have at least heard its central premise: Adding resources to a late software project makes it later Or perhaps…
I’ve seen some criticism of Git recently, on Twitter, with a ton of likes, suggesting a large amount of people have a difficult time using Git. Git is not that hard. It really isn’t. I think the problem stems from two main approaches. Problem the first: Shying away from the…