The formidable Formidable Forms - Which checkboxes are checked?
Helping someone close to me with their WordPress website, and more specifically Formidable Forms, it became apparent that the level of complexity with what they wanted was not as s
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Why I deleted my Stack Overflow account...
After over 4 years, I finally decided to delete my SO account. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of great ideas on SO, one of which include the community rating system to bring r
Full Color Spectrum Color Chart / ColorPicker
For a project I have been working on with ESP32, I wanted to make a simple drawing program. It would be simple enough to add a limited swatch of colors, but I really wanted to prov
Lilygo TTGO T-Display ESP32 - 16MB flash troubles with platformio
Problem: I purchased some t-display compatible boards and wanted to setup them up for some fun projects I have in mind. I generally prefer to use VSCode for my editing over Arduino
Did Thingiverse shadow ban my models?
As a hobby, I do some 3d modelling generally around small designs I think might be useful. They include things I make to use around the house, or just general interests of mine. Re
ESP8266 Captive Portal, Static Serve, and Websockets
While working on a toy for my dog, I wanted to set up an AP with captive portal. This took a little bit because a lot of examples out there were a bit out of date and did not work
Slightly Painful - Painless Mesh for ESP32
While working on a mesh networking project, I decided to give Painless Mesh a try. I ran into whole bunch of issues in PlatformIO for some reason, so I resorted to using ArduinoIDE
Visual Studio Installer: ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified - following system restore
Problem: A long story short, a bad USB adapter killed motherboard USB headers. The system was old enough that buying a new CPU/motherboard would be as much as buying a used motherb
Addressable LED Strip Odd Colors with Arduino | Weird Behavior
I was trying to run some test code using a strip of addressable LEDs and my Arduino, but every time I ran the program, I got odd colors and the last LED color was green. Sometimes
SiteGround SSH Login Trouble - Permission denied (publickey).
Problem: Working with a company that uses SiteGround for hosting, we setup SSH access on the website using keys. The SiteGround system forces a specific SSH passphrase for your key
Process Explorer - DLL Inspection
I've been working with a DLL I got that doesn't have very great documentation. After trying a couple different things (ILSPy, and custom python to load and print callable functions
Free Software: Edit-as-you-go Sound Recorder
My friend, Mason, is an actor in film, stage, and voice projects. One of his enjoyed past times is to record audio books. Y'know, long ones, the ones in the public domain (his stil