Kolja Nolte

Category: Fixes

The struggles are real, but the solutions are too. Read about the annoying problems I’ve faced and the (sometimes creative) fixes I’ve found to overcome them. Because who hasn’t wasted hours on a stupid bug?

  • Login error with GitHub’s Copilot plugin in JetBrains 2024.2 IDEs: Here’s how I fixed it

    Login error with GitHub’s Copilot plugin in JetBrains 2024.2 IDEs: Here’s how I fixed it

    I’m using WebStorm by JetBrains as my go-to IDE for most of my front-end projects. As I was about to start it to continue one of my projects, from one day to the next, I was confronted with multiple errors that, in the end, wouldn’t let me log in to the super helpful GitHub Copilot plugin.

    A thorough Google search didn’t yield any useful results on how to fix this, but it seemed like this is not a new bug. I’ve seen similar reports going back as far as February 2023.

    However, the good news is, after tinkering around a bit, I found a way to fix this issue and use Copilot on every JetBrains product again. The following steps explain how I solved it, step by step. I can’t guarantee that it’ll work on your system, but it’s worth giving it a try.

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  • Simple Bash function to use md5sum for string input

    Simple Bash function to use md5sum for string input

    Using macOS for most of my work, if I want to retrieve the hash of a string, macOS provides an easy md5 function, located under /sbin/md5 and callable in any terminal:

    $ md5 -s 'Hey md5!'

    Linux does things a little differently, but with a single line in Bash, you can keep the easy macOS syntax.

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