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I've had to make some services that make HTTP requests to endpoints that require authentication via certificates. These services run fine when testing them locally or running them in a local container. But as soon as they are deployed to production, they start taking 15 seconds more than normal to finish their HTTP requests that use certificates.

I've changed my VPN provider to NordVPN, and therefore wanted to setup my Synology DS414 to connect through it. Here is how you can do it too.

If you're like me and use VSTS, you might also be like me and use a different time format than the standard US format.

I'm creating a new websocket server in Java just to see what it takes, and for that I will be using IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains. Follow along if you wish to experiment with WebSockets in Java EE, and need a place to start.

I own a Synology DS1414, and wanted to set it up to connect through PIA's VPN. I looked around to see if anyone else did this, but I couldn't find a conclusive way to do it. So I ended up just doing it myself. Here's how..

I recently had to sent a HTTP request containing some JSON in UTF-8 format. However, when I received the text it seemed to be cut short. This is a simple recreation of my code. Now this solution simply would not send the whole body to the recipient server.

For a long time I've been accessing CMD in Windows by pressing the Windows button, searching for "cmd" and pressing enter. Suddenly this didn't work anymore. Instead of opening CMD and usual, Windows decided that "MySQL Client" for for MariaDB was the best match when searching for "cmd".