Simon Morgan

In my never-ending quest to screw up my Internet connection, I bought a MikroTik hEX S (2025), otherwise known by the slightly less catchy “E60iUGS”.

By my reckoning I’ve been using Aquiss as my ISP for over 10 years.

While working on a large project that uses the unit of work pattern (and other things that generally make it harder to debug), I was getting an InvalidOperationException with an error about the DbContext being disposed.

I’ve been farting around with an ELEGOO UNO R3 (that came as part of their Basic Starter Kit), today.

In Google Play, the bell icon next to the search box was saying I have 1 unread notification.

I’ve had these SQL Server scripts kicking around on my hard drive for a while now, so thought I’d post them here for posterity.

When scaffolding an EF Core .NET 6 console app recently, I discovered the it doesn’t support sourcing connection strings from the user secrets store unless you’re scaffolding an ASP.NET project.

If you just want to get the damn thing working as a modem (referred to as “bridge mode” in the DrayTek documentation) with your router, but don’t want to read about the ballache I had to go through Select “Enable” on the “MPoA / Static or dynamic IP” page…

I’ve come up with the following bookmarklet for searching the Internet Archive’s fantastic Wayback Machine for the current URL and thought I’d share it.

I’ve been interested in learning some low-level graphics programming and so figured a good way to do it would be via SDL and C.

I have the unfortunate task of having to work with an ASP.NET Web Forms web site and have frequently had to deal with errors like the following: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a…

SQL Server provides the handy sp_MSforeachtable stored procedure for executing the specified T-SQL for each table in a database.

I have a Moto G7 Power (XT1955-4) and recently switched to EE because they support WiFi calling with that model.

I recently found myself wanting a system to cryptographically sign and verify files.

I was working on some proof-of-concept code whereby an unpriviledged client would communicate with a Windows service using protocol buffer serialization over a named pipe.

I recently encountered an issue while using Swashbuckle whereby everything would work fine when running it locally but the deployed version would use incorrect API URLs. https://server.example.net/app/foo/bar?

Recently I had to write some code to log CUD operations done via NHibernate.

I recently came across some unintuitive and confusing (but understandable) behaviour when dealing with HashSet<T> where T : IEquatable.

I recently starting an issue where none of the programs I’ve installed via the Windows Store would update.

In a previous post I described how to get IPv6 working on the ASUS RT-N66U using the stock firmware.

I recently got an Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet and for the most part it’s been running fine.

I recently watched Joe Armstrong’s Code BEAM keynote talk about forgotten ideas in computer science and thought it would be useful to make some notes.

I’m using an ASUS RT-N66U and my ISP is Aquiss (an Entanet reseller).

I’ve been using Smarty templates a bit recently while working with WHMCS and ran into an issue.

While working on an addon module for WHMCS I kept getting a generic 500 error code and a blank page.

While working on some code recently I ended up learning far more about OAuth than I ever wanted to know and so I thought I’d share my pain with the Internet.

Objects can have a prototype and a prototype is just another object.

Like a lot of things related to JavaScript, the syntax and semantics of properties can be a little tricky to wrap your head around.