Firefox 43: Disable check for "unverified" add-ons
This is a bit of a temporary fix because it won't work for Firefox 44, but for the time being you can simply change a setting in your config editor. Open up a new tab and go to "about:config" Paste in...
View ArticleAndroid: Fix for TextView.setTypeFace() not working on Android 5.x+...
This is one of the latest quirks I've had the displeasure of running into while upgrading an old app to the latest Android 6/Marshmallow. The problem happens when the font fails to apply onto a...
View Articlenginx: How To Set Up an SSL Reverse Proxy (Windows / Linux)
So you have a program on your computer that's running a HTTP server, but you want to add HTTPS support to it to prevent people from snooping on your activity. Fortunately, that's pretty easy to do....
View ArticleHow to safely downgrade your Old/New Nintendo 3DS to firmware 9.2.0-20
Assuming you're on firmware 9.3 to 10.3, then you can downgrade to 9.2 using the following method. Download starter.zip (aka the "homebrew starter kit") Download sysUpdater.zip Download 9.2.0-20X...
View ArticleGit: Post-merge hook to detect when certain files have changed and display a...
When certain files in a project change, the project needs to be rebuilt/restarted/recompiled. Using the following git hook, you can keep an eye out for changes in certain files then display a reminder...
View ArticleSony Z5 Compact: Root without losing TA partition (DRM features) on Marshmallow
I've spent too long on Android without root access and it really bothers me. I need it! Feeling imprisoned by my own Android OS... I did not sign up for iOS! Overview In order to back up the TA...
View ArticleAndroid: Fix for YouTube "There was a problem while playing. Tap to retry" -...
This was an annoying issue plaguing me for the past year or so. I don't know exactly when it started happening or why, but there are numerous posts and issue trackers for it scattered around the...
View ArticleFix Windows 7 getting stuck on "Checking for updates...", high CPU usage or...
So my friend's computer has had issues with getting updates since day 1. I didn't really know why, but at the time a lot of the responses online was to leave it running overnight and hope for the best....
View ArticlecPanel / WHM: How to redirect sub-addressed (plus addressing) emails to your...
For a few months now, my inbox has been pretty quiet. I thought that the war on spam is finally over, but then I noticed that my regular cron job emails weren't being received either. I checked and...
View ArticleSamba File Server: Stop files from being set with executable bit
While doing a bit of code cleanup today, I found some files which were marked as executable even though they weren't meant to be. As I looked around at the files affected, a colleague did some snooping...
View ArticleEasily Integrate React.js to a Django Website for dev and production builds
Assuming you already have a Django website up and running, this will get you started with compiled React.js on the front-end with: Django and Webpack integrated nicely together during development and...
View ArticleGetting Font Awesome v5 (Pro) to work with yarn on multiple dev machines
FontAwesome is pretty much the defacto standard icon library these days. First of all, you'll need your NPM token from your Accounts > Services page. Following the instructions on the FontAwesome...
View ArticlePython: comparison of pipenv vs pip-tools
Now this isn't a blog I would have normally written up here since the stats in this post were only meant for my colleagues in an internal email update. But I noticed some emotional messages in recent...
View ArticleGetting Python 3.6 build tools working on Windows
What an annoying process this has become. Used to be "download this exe, install and carry on". Didn't bother with Python 3.7 since a lot of libraries were breaking on Linux. Downloads Grab Microsoft...
View ArticleGetting native Linux terminal on Win10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
(Wow, it's been a while since I've written anything! Since Open Live Writer doesn't seem to be working anymore, I had to venture back into writing straight in the browser. Dammit Blogger it's still...
View ArticleFix slow link clicks in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc)
When working with a spreadsheet with roughly 90 rows of links, I got frustrated with a 1-3 second delay when clicking on each link. The cause For those who don't have Internet Explorer as their default...
View ArticleVirtualBox: Cloning a physical drive (HDD or SSD) to VDI on Windows
Open up Partition Manager on Windows to find your "disk number" Open up a Command Prompt and type: VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw \\.\PhysicalDrive2 C:\output.vdi --format VDI Replacing "2" with the...
View ArticleHow to get Android Studio Emulator working properly with Ryzen on Windows -...
I recently built a new Ryzen computer and felt like getting back into Android development for some personal apps. Got Android Studio up and running without any major issues, but the emulator wouldn't...
View ArticleHow to turn off Google's single sign-in popup ads
I hate it when sites have popups telling me to click things. It's enough of a pain that GDPR has mandatory banners on almost every site, but Google's overly clingly popup is something that has got to...
View ArticleKeeping your commit history while migrating from SVN to Git
I had to finally get off my arse and migrate my old SVN repos over to Git(hub) when CloudForge decided to close shop. It was very nice of them to host my junk for free all these years and also give us...
View ArticleAndroid: How to figure out which key store your app was signed with
It's been more than a few years since I've signed an APK for release and over time I've forgotten which key store I used to sign apps.Fortunately, if you've got Java installed then you already have...
View ArticleAndroid: How to disable Chrome's useless share menu (aka the "Chrome Sharing...
Note: this flag should also work on Chrome derived browsers such as Brave and Vivaldi.It's frustrating when a company like Google tries to be all user-friendly up in your face by adding extra steps to...
View ArticleTypescript: Preventing generic string keyed objects from overlapping with Arrays
This was a bit of a doozy and took me the better half of a day to find a semi decent fix for it.Here's the unsuspecting use case and why it caused problems (try it out on Typescript playground)...
View ArticleRemove URLs next to links when printing from browsers like Firefx
Sometimes you need get something done quick like printing a receipt off a webpage, but the browser just vomits URLs all over your print preview.I've yet to figure out why this happens, but some sites...
View ArticleWindows / Nvidia: How to reduce GPU usage for Instant Replay when idling on...
The other day I was glancing at Task Manager and noticed something annoying...For some odd reason, the GPU was busy at around 40% capacity while I wasn't really doing much on the desktop.After a bit...
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