Serghei Iakovlev sergeyklay

Permanent WSL DNS Fix (WSL 2.2.1+)

If you're encountering ping github.com failing inside WSL with a Temporary failure in name resolution, you're not alone — this has been a long-standing issue, especially when using VPNs or corporate networks.

This issue is now fixed robustly with DNS tunneling, which preserves dynamic DNS behavior and avoids limitations like WSL’s former hard cap of 3 DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf.

DNS tunneling is enabled by default in WSL version 2.2.1 and later, meaning that if you're still seeing DNS resolution issues, the first and most effective fix is simply to upgrade WSL. Upgrading WSL updates the WSL platform itself, but does not affect your installed Linux distributions, apps, or files.

To upgrade WSL, follow these steps,

GPG + Git SSH Authentication and Signing on Windows 10

Introduction

This simple Gist will explain how to settup your GPG key to work for SSH authentication (with Git) and Git commit signing on Windows 10. This may seem straightforward on Linux, but there are certain tweaks needed on Windows.

No Cygwin, no MinGW, no Git Bash or any other Linux emulated environment. This works in pure Windows 10.

Software needed

ZSH CheatSheet

This is a cheat sheet for how to perform various actions to ZSH, which can be tricky to find on the web as the syntax is not intuitive and it is generally not very well-documented.

Strings

Description	Syntax
Get the length of a string	`${#VARNAME}`
Get a single character	`${VARNAME[index]}`

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	ERROR: launchpadlib 1.10.6 requires testresources, which is not installed.
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	asked Oct 6, 2019 in Programming Languages by pythonuser (11.5k points)
	recategorized Oct 6, 2019 by pythonuser

	I am getting the following error when I try to upgrade setuptools:

	brew install pandoc
	brew tap homebrew/cask
	brew install --cask basictex
	eval "$(/usr/libexec/path_helper)"
	# Update $PATH to include `/usr/local/texlive/2022basic/bin/universal-darwin`
	sudo tlmgr update --self
	sudo tlmgr install texliveonfly
	sudo tlmgr install xelatex
	sudo tlmgr install adjustbox
	sudo tlmgr install tcolorbox