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Summary A production payment integration with Razorpay in a Flutter app was failing due to an incorrect field in the payload sent to the Razorpay checkout. The specific field order_id was manually populated, conflicting with Razorpay’s API expectation to generate this identifier server-side or automatically. The resolution involved removing the order_id key from the options … Read more

Unable to view file content

Summary In Apache NiFi, generating FlowFiles via GenerateFlowFile and enqueuing them successfully does not guarantee they are persisted or accessible for viewing. The “Unable to communicate with NiFi” UI error—despite the server running—often points to a discrepancy between the in-memory flow file repository and the content repository, or a browser-side issue with WebSocket connections required … Read more

Got socket exception during request. It might be caused by SSL misconfiguration > Broken pipe

Summary A developer encountered a network socket exception (“Broken pipe”) during a Gradle build, specifically while trying to resolve a dependency from the Gradle plugin portal. The error message suggested an SSL misconfiguration. This postmortem dissects the underlying causes, explains why this scenario is common in local development environments, and outlines the senior engineering approach … Read more

composition implementation

Summary A composition implementation was attempted in a C++ project using Visual Studio with Visual C++ and the standard library (including iostream). The project failed because the developer attempted to implement composition using header-only circular dependencies and incorrect initialization in the main function. The core issue was a violation of the forward declaration rule and … Read more

RegEx with ASAN crashes the application

Summary The issue at hand involves a regular expression pattern that causes a crash when used with AddressSanitizer (ASAN) in a C++ application. The pattern L”primary key\(*” is used to match the string “primary key” followed by zero or more occurrences of any character, but it results in a crash due to invalid memory access. … Read more

Python file doesn’t run properly in PowerShell (Problem solved itself?)

Summary A Python script using colorama and termcolor to print colored text to the console appeared to “do nothing” when executed in PowerShell, while the same code executed successfully in the Python REPL. The core issue was the immediate termination of the console window (a common behavior in double-clicked .py files or certain launch contexts) … Read more

In Godot, how can I use different culling distances for 2 different layers with a single camera?

Summary In Godot 4, using different culling distances for multiple layers with a single camera is not a straightforward process. The engine does not provide a built-in feature to adjust culling distances for individual layers on a single camera. However, there are workarounds to achieve this functionality, which will be discussed in this article. Root … Read more

Don’t get publish() to work in paho.mqtt.client.on_connect thread

Summary A developer reported that paho.mqtt.client.publish() calls inside the on_connect callback (and a subsequent infinite loop within that callback) were not reaching the broker, while a publish call in the main thread succeeded. The root cause was blocking the Paho client’s network loop. The on_connect callback executes within the thread handling network I/O (started by … Read more