I have always liked running my monitors with more saturation than the default Linux desktop gives me. NVIDIA users have had Digital Vibrance forever, while AMD users on Linux have mostly had to piece together whatever worked for their current stack. ...
It's been a while since I've posted, but I recently received a nice Samsung 32 inch monitor from work and attempted to hook it to my MacBook M1 Pro. After doing so, I noticed some extreme mouse lag, and after checking my display settings, I realize...
We have several front-end modules, all of which utilize a shared enterprise UI library. We needed a way to keep this shared library's dependency version in sync, therefore, we needed a way to programmatically pull the latest library package version f...
I've been running Linux Mint now for 10 years after earlier forays into Gentoo, Slackware & Arch. Back when I was a teenager and I didn't have the cash to purchase new hardware and needed to squeeze every inch of performance out of my machines, distr...
It's been a while since my lost post and since then I've moved far into the world of JavaScript development (primarily the React/Angular space). I just came across something I spent entirely too long on, which I definitely want to share in case someo...
Ever get tired of digging through the registry HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall and HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall keys searching for a product? Luckily, there's a much faster way to find ...
Since the advent of Office 2013, I've been increasingly frustrated with the new Outlook contact cards, and the round-about way needed to access the legacy GAL properties dialog as shown below: :::note This solution was originally developed for Skype ...
Recently at work I needed to pull all servers from a specific OU and Get-ADComputer was not working for some reason. I didn't feel like taking the time to figure it out so I just reverted back to handy dsquery: dsquery OU=Test,DC=contoso,DC=local -s...
Just wanted to post a quick JavaScript convert string to bytes function just for myself, but I figured someone else may find it useful: js function convertToBytes(str) { var bytes = []; for (var i = 0; i < str.length; ++i) { var charCode = st...
Recently my gulp live reload broke like so: > ws://x.x.x.x:8080/LiveReload' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 200 Even though nothing changed, I noted patches had been installed over the weekend. After looking throug...
