When the Fire TV Remote Stops Responding — Why an Overnight Rest Fixes It, and the Right Power Reset

My Fire TV remote suddenly stopped responding. New batteries did not help, re-pairing did not help. I gave up, left it overnight, and the next morning it worked as if nothing had happened. As an engineer, a fix with no known cause is the most unsatisfying ending of all. Here I break down why an overnight rest works, through Bluetooth pairing state, residual charge, and the Fire TV OS input process, and I lay out the power reset that fixes it in minutes rather than a night.

Troubleshooting Hermes Agent When It Runs Out of Context — Discard the Half-Done Work and Restart Clean

You're having Hermes Agent create a PR and it stalls with 'Context length exceeded. Cannot compress further.', and /compress does nothing. As a Hermes Agent troubleshooting tip, this post shows how to discard the half-done changes and restart clean from your committed progress to finish the PR and close the issue.

macOS Keychain Error -25294 (errSecNoSuchKeychain) — Fixed by Importing the Certificate into login

You try to import a certificate into your keychain and get error -25294, which blocks the import. errSecNoSuchKeychain, meaning 'the specified keychain could not be found,' almost always points not at the certificate itself but at the destination keychain. Based on a case where switching the import target from Local Items to login fixed it, here is the cause and the shortest path to a fix.

Can't Sign In to a Local Account on an Entra ID-Joined PC — Fix It by Prefixing the Username with ".\"

I set up a loaner Windows 11 PC with Entra ID Join and created a local account, user01, for the trainee. When I tried to sign in as user01, the password was correct but it would not log in. Here is the cause, and why prefixing the username with '.\' fixes it in one step.