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Using Legacy Google Calendar Integration in Slack

Slack’s legacy Google Calendar integration is still much better than the “new” integration. So much so that Slack halted the sunsetting of the integration probably a year plus ago. Here is how you can STILL use the legacy integration.

First, Go to this page in Slack. This will take you directly to the integration in your own Slack tenant.

Next, open up the developer console in your browser by hitting the F12 button. Then, go to the console tab.

Enter this command and hit enter:

$('#calendar_id').removeAttr('class disabled data-lazy-filter-select')

This code will remove CSS/HTML on the page that disallows the dropdown options.

You will now be able to select a calendar on the left side of the page that you want to integrate. Select a channel on the right to post the calendar notifications.

For calendar settings, the recommended setting is under Calendar Summaries. This will post all the days events for the calendar to the selected channel. You can also simply post a notification for each calendar event. Whatever your cup of tea, that is it! You can still use the legacy integration. This is accurate as of January 2024.

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Ctrl-W Shortcut No Longer Works in Firefox, Chrome, or Edge

I encountered this weird issue this week. Suddenly, my favorite keyboard shortcut, Ctrl-W, stopped working. I checked for browser updates – nada, I tried in other browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and discovered the shortcut had stopped working in all my other web browsers as well. Other shortcuts still worked that used both keys. I restarted, checked my keyboard settings to make sure it was on Windows mode… nada.

Finally, I found the source of the issue. I have Samsung Magician installed and there was a pending update and apparently that disabled Ctrl-W keyboard. shortcut. Install the update and you should find your shortcut back, just like me!

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Whoops! WordPress Stuck in Maintenance Mode

It’s good to keep your WordPress instance up-to-date. But sometimes it doesn’t go to plan. Recently, this very instance got stuck in maintenance mode after an update.

It’s an easy fix! Logging into my cPanel, I found a .maintenance file in the root of my public_html folder where my WordPress instance is located. I deleted the file and voila, functioning, updated WordPress!

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Invalid Login Attempt Accessing Netsuite using REST API

I banged my head against the desk for way too long trying to figure out this issue. While trying to authenticate with Netsuite’s REST API instead of SOAP, I got the same INVALID_LOGIN_ATTEMPT error.

The fix? My account ID, which was a sandbox and included the letters S and B, had to be capitalized. I was using lowercase letters. Changing them to uppercase letters did the job!

Why, Netsuite, Why?
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Expand Ubuntu Disk / Partition after Hyper-V Disk Expansion

I have an Ubuntu VM running in Hyper-V (or HyperV if you’re lazy) that I had to expand. I used the GUI in Hyper-V Manager to add some space first and rebooted my VM. After that I was able to utilize the new space by following these steps:

First, open Up Disks app and make sure your “VM” is seeing the free space

Look at the beautiful free space

After that, open up terminal and install some cloud tools that’ll help us out.

sudo apt-get install cloud-guest-utils

After that, run this command to use all that sweet new space.

sudo growpart /dev/sda 1

That’s it! It grew to use all the free space and we were good to go.