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I was exploring AWS Cognito for authentication. It works great, but I got the following error message after I tested the sign up process: An error was encountered with the requested page. I found out later that I misunderstood the AutoVerifiedAttributes field in my CloudFormation. I thought it would mark an email or phone number as verified without actually verifying them. Apparently, it means it will try to verify either email or phone number. So, when I set it to email, it sent a verification email and the sign up process went without error.

I encountered a strange error with ASP.NET Web API application. It runs fine locally, but when we deployed to Kubernetes cluster, it crashed as soon as it starts. And no error message was thrown. So, I pulled the application to my local and it crashed as well no matter how I run it, dotnet cli, Docker Desktop, Visual Studio debug. The only one that runs fine is the version from the repo. At this point, there are only two possibilities, either the environment is the issue or the application is the issue, so I decided to deploy it to a different environment and it's still not working, so it must be something with the application. Since it is the application, I tried to change the log level to Trace to get more information but no new error message that provides a hint on what's going on. Memory dump didn't work as the collector didn't have enough time to collect before the application crashed. At the end, I decided to approach this the hard way. So, in my local, there are ...

 It never caused a problem for me to implement JwtBearer token validator, but this time it is really take my time to troubleshoot what's going on. Long story short, there's a breaking change going to .NET 8 and on top of that, the default package version doesn't solve the issue. Here's how I implement my service: services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme) .AddJwtBearer(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme, options => ...removed for brevity); services.AddAuthorization(); ... app.UseAuthentication(); app.UseAuthorization(); But checking the bearer token, it was a completely valid token. I retrieved the token using a quick custom middleware. app.Use(async (context, next) => { await next.Invoke(); Debug.WriteLine(context.Request.Headers.Authorization); }); app.UseAuthentication(); ... Then I validate the token in  https://jwt.io . The error that I received contains: IDX14100: JWT is not well formed, there are no dots (.). Th...

Swashbuckle CLI was able to output schema of my API before, but this time, it throws this error message: System.InvalidOperationException: A type named 'StartupProduction' or 'Startup' could not be found in assembly I used top level statement with minimal API on .NET 8 and nothing is changed on that, so I was not able to find anything to do with Startup type. After I investigate further by commenting line by line, I found out that the issue is on my switch statement. So it looks like the following: return config.Section?.Key switch { Value1 => services.AddSingleton<Handler1>(), Value2 => services.AddSingleton<Handler2>(), _ => throw new InvalidOperationException(); } Problem is the Section is pulled from appsettings.json and when the CLI runs, it doesn't have value, so it never returned the services object. Changing the above to the following fixed the issue: return config.Section == null ? services : config.Section.Key switch { Value1 =...

I realized that I don't have the Layout option under Styles menu in the Editor. I found out later that I have a bare minimum theme.json. And adding appearanceTools: true field cause it to show up. My theme.json became: { "version": 3, "$schema": "https://schemas.wp.org/wp/6.6/theme.json", "settings": { "appearanceTools": true } }

 I'm working on a custom WordPress theme and I saw a very helpful plugin called "Create Block Theme" which is supposed to help developer create the theme. So, for starting, I tried to edit one of my templates, but when I hit "Save Changes" under "Save Changes to Theme" section, I expected it to overwrite my template html file, but it didn't. I was checking permissions and potential bugs, but seems like everything is good. After playing around a little, apparently, I need to hit "Save" first, so it records the customization in the database and then click the "Save Changes to Theme" will use the value from the database and modified the html file itself.

Often my branches piled up and I need a way to automatically delete them based on how many days ago. I can't find an easy way online, so I ended up writing my own scripts in PowerShell and Bash. In this repo, I have the script to clean up branches that are 90 days or older based on last committed date. Repo:  https://github.com/nik-yo/DeleteGitBranchesByDaysAgo