Nathan’s Brain Dumps

Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta Strategy Guide

Jul 8, 20245 min read

The Final Fantasy Five Four Job Fiesta (FFF4JF) is a yearly event where people play Final Fantasy 5 using only 4 jobs--one from each crystal. The aim...

Updating firmware on LibreComputer La Frite in 2022

Mar 25, 20222 min read

I've had a Libre Computer La Frite SBC (aml-s805x-ac) for a few years now, and I haven't done a lot with it. But, on a whim, I decided to pick it back...

A base64 decoder in pure shell script

Jan 6, 20224 min read

I can't go into the details of why, but at work we found ourselves in a position where we needed to update one of the JAR files in our agent software...

More Okta gotchas: "Type mismatch exception. Could not convert parameter 'limit' to the required type."

Oct 13, 20214 min read

This error has to do with how Okta implements pagination, which I have ... opinions on, but aren't really relevant to the problem at hand. When you...

Solving "E0000003: The request body was not well-formed" working with Okta API

Oct 12, 20213 min read

I'm writing a microservice that needs to be able to programmatically create Okta App objects via Python. We have a working implementation using...

Making sense of nonsensical errors: Python X509 PEM lib edition

Sep 28, 20212 min read

Are you trying to use Requests (or something built on Requests, like HVAC) with a server that uses a TLS certificate issued by a private CA? Maybe you...