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61 postsUSB-C PD Power Bank to Resmed AirMini or Airsense CPAP
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
Read postEnable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste
A tutorial on how to enable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste. Specifically BrimFinancial
Read postTravel Tips
What worked and what didn't on a two-month trip through South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and China.
Read postHow I buy bitcoins and Ethereum
How I buy Bitcoin and Ethereum from Canada using Coinbase, LocalBitcoins, and Quadrigacx, with the fees and signup time for each.
Read postESP8266 Tips
Working notes on the ESP8266: useful libraries, debugging the Arduino core, taming the 300mA current spikes, and deep sleep gotchas.
Read postIntro to Security, Passwords
Intro to password security: long passwords, multi-factor auth, password databases, and why to use different passwords per site.
Read postRaspberry PI controlling an Arduino via the pyfirmata protocol
Talking to an Arduino from a Raspberry Pi over USB with the pyFirmata protocol to read analog pins and drive PWM.
Read postLaser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
A link list of places to find laser-cut files, project ideas, and inspiration for the laser cutter.
Read postLaser safe font - Laser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
Why laser-cut text falls apart in fonts with closed counters, and a switch to stencil fonts like Stencilano.
Read postRaspberry PI - Start up questions
Answers to the first questions a Windows user hits when booting a Raspberry Pi: power, USB current, login, keyboard layout.
Read postPlaya tips and tricks
Personal tips for Burning Man: tennis-ball kickstand, marked piss bottles, fresh socks, and bike lights.
Read postPlaying with app inventor for android
Building a simple sensor-reading Android app with Google App Inventor, and the features I wish it had.
Read postLight painting with Processing
A two-hour Processing.org sketch that does live light painting with a webcam, built for SHHH10 binary beers night.
Read postMerge/combined PDF documents into a single PDF
A free Java app for merging dozens of PDFs into one file, saving $90 in per-file print shop fees.
Read postCanon S90 CHDK How do you get to the record mode?
On a Canon S90 running CHDK, switch from playback to record mode with the shutter button, not the playback button.
Read postPHP email template
A tiny PHP pattern for loading an email body from a template file and substituting variables before sending.
Read postWhat are mysql-bin.000001, mysql-bin.000002...
What the mysql-bin.000001 files in your MySQL data directory are for, and how to safely disable and delete them.
Read postButter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon
Recipe for bacon-wrapped filet mignon seared in butter and bacon grease with garlic, served with avocado salad.
Read postFatal error: Call to undefined function: php_info() in /home/*/public_html/info.php on line 2
A quick fix for a PHP fatal error caused by calling php_info() instead of phpinfo().
Read postIs Aluminum is a conductor ?
A short note on why aluminum conducts both electricity and heat, and why it shows up in most heat sinks.
Read postCakePHP - Security.level
Why CakePHP was logging users out at random, and the Security.level setting that fixed the session regeneration.
Read postGet special folders with SHGetKnownFolderPath
A small Windows C++ sample that calls SHGetKnownFolderPath to find the right per-user spots for app data and logs under UAC.
Read postCakephp - Add meta tags to views
How to inject per-view meta keywords and descriptions into a CakePHP layout using $scripts_for_layout and the HTML helper.
Read postConvert HEX string to BYTE array, bug.
A C++ ConvertHexToBytes function posted as a find-the-bug puzzle using strtok_s and sscanf_s.
Read postWordpress, Creating a RSS feed for each category.
The undocumented WordPress URL pattern for getting a per-category RSS feed: /?feed=rss2&cat=ID.
Read postC++ name mangling hell
Why exported C++ functions show up with mangled names like FirstGetBuf@US&NP and how extern "C" fixes GetProcAddress.
Read postHow to Move/Backup/Load a SVN repository
Three svnadmin commands to dump, move, and reload an SVN repository onto a new server.
Read postDefault action for vista power button
How to change the Vista Start menu power button from Sleep to Shut Down so a closed laptop stops draining the battery.
Read postYour daily WTF
A code-review WTF: a sleep loop written as for(int i=0; i<PAUSE_LENGTH; i++) { i++; }.
Read postInsert new post in to wordpress from php
PHP snippet that builds a post object and calls wp_insert_post to add a new entry to WordPress 2.5.1.
Read postHow to make a CMinMaxAvg class
A small C++ CMinMaxAvg class that tracks count, total, min, max, and average for a stream of ints.
Read postRabo Encendido(Cuban Oxtail Stew)
Recipe for Cuban rabo encendido, a slow oxtail stew with port, sherry, chipotle, and Cajun seasoning.
Read postPHP strip non alphanumeric
A small PHP function that strips every non-alphanumeric character out of a string with preg_replace and ereg_replace.
Read postLast windows boot time, Install date
A one-liner using systeminfo and find to print the last Windows boot time or install date.
Read postThe quick and dirty way of getting the size of a file up to 4GB.
A short fseek and ftell snippet for grabbing a file size in win32 when the file is under 4GB.
Read postOpen DNS
Review of OpenDNS, with notes on how its NXDOMAIN redirects break utilities that depend on a real not-found reply.
Read postHow to disable AVG 7 temporarily.
Steps to turn off the AVG 7 Resident Shield from the Free Control Center when you need to.
Read postTom Kha Gai
Recipe for Thai coconut chicken soup with galangal, lemongrass, lime leaves, and chiles.
Read postDisable and Enable MFC controls by name
Snippets for enabling, hiding, and moving MFC dialog controls by ID using GetDlgItem.
Read postNot alowing comments
Warren Ellis turns off comments and asks readers to reply via trackback instead, boosting his inbound links and Google rank.
Read postSMF - Redirect after reply or post
How to make Simple Machines Forum send users back to the topic after posting instead of dumping them on the board index.
Read postHow to burn .uif files
How to burn a MagicISO .uif file by decompressing it to an ISO and then writing it with ImgBurn.
Read postTips for pulling an all nighter
Tips for pulling an all-nighter at the computer: showers, dark editor themes, fruit, a 4 a.m. meal, and loud music.
Read postIf you know beans about chili, you know chili aint got no beans
My slow-cooker chili recipe with bacon and three kinds of beans, plus a note on the no-beans purist debate.
Read postResize thumbnails in Wordpress
Two recipes for changing WordPress's default upload thumbnail size, one for pre-2.1 and one for 2.1+.
Read postWordpress robots.txt
A line-by-line walkthrough of my WordPress robots.txt file and why each Disallow rule exists.
Read postAlways add the www
A short .htaccess mod_rewrite snippet that 301-redirects the non-www version of a domain to the www version.
Read post5 MSN/Yahoo/GTtalk/AOL/IM Etiquette tips
Five etiquette tips for using MSN, Yahoo, GTalk and other IM clients without annoying the people on the other end.
Read postTimeless content
Notes on writing timeless blog content that stays useful 5 to 10 years after posting, with tips on dates and wording.
Read post12 Tips for creating a killer landing page.
Twelve rules for landing pages that convert, drawn from rebuilding a friend's AdWords campaign from 2 leads a day to 25.
Read post23 Tips for writing good blog posts and articles.
Twenty-three rules for writing readable blog posts, from snappy headlines to splitting long pieces and crediting sources.
Read postFinding a good web host
Notes on picking a web host by disk space, uptime, and company age, with a comparison of GoDaddy, Dreamhost, and friends.
Read postHippo Update Checker (Windows)
Hippo Update Checker scans installed Windows programs against an online version database and lists download links for any updates.
Read postFlickrs camera trend data
Flickr mines Exif data from uploaded photos to track which camera makes and models are rising or falling in popularity.
Read postTrack your packages with Google Maps
Isnoop.net plots UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL package progress on Google Maps and spits out an RSS feed of pickups and deliveries.
Read postRss feeds in your inbox
Services like rssfwd.com and squeet.com turn any RSS feed into email updates for people who refuse to use a feed reader.
Read postGoogle talk
Notes on Google Talk, the XMPP protocol behind it, and how to connect to the GTalk network from Trillian with the Jabber plugin.
Read postView Product Key XP
Keyfinder, a freeware tool that pulls Windows and Office product keys out of the registry and can write a new key back.
Read postWhat are RSS feeds and how to use them
An intro to RSS feeds and feed readers like FeedDemon, Thunderbird, and Google Reader for tracking site updates in one place.
Read postDisable Windows low disk space warning
A one-line regini command to set the NoLowDiskSpaceChecks registry key and stop Windows from nagging about a near-full drive.
Read postHow to check your MAC address of your network cards
A short walkthrough for finding the MAC address of a Windows network card using ipconfig /all from the command prompt.
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