Samuel Haddad

Things I’m figuring out, written down.

notes / fixes / ideas / the occasional random thought

Latest Tech Support

RX 7900 XTX freezes from Windows Modern Standby

My Alienware desktop was hard-locking the GPU overnight. The cause was Windows Modern Standby, not a bad driver install.

Earlier writing

2026

Moving this site off WordPress

Claude designed the static site, Eleventy builds it, and Cloudflare Pages is how it ships.

Web
2024

PDF.JS: Message: file origin does not match viewer’s with WordPress

The viewer and the PDF have to be served over the same protocol. The fix was moving both to SSL.

WordPress
2022

Git: delete all local branches except main

A one-line shell pipe that clears every local branch except main.

Git

Android: set the background color of a notification

Colorize a foreground timer notification with a custom accent color.

Android

Fix “Another Update is Currently in Progress” WordPress error

A stale lock in the options table blocks updates until you delete one row.

WordPress
2018

Allow console logging with ESLint

One rule comment to allow warn, error and log calls.

Development

Nuget File Locations

NuGet Cache Stores downloaded NuGet packages (.nupkg).

Development
2017

Git disable ssl check.

You probably don’t want to do this, but if you really have to git config http.sslVerify "false"

Git
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