Add fa-mastodon to Older Font Awesome
If you went to use the fa-mastodon but instead got a blank glyph, chances are you are running an old Font Awesome. The best fix is to just upgrade to Font Awesome v5.0.11 or higher but sometimes you are working on apps that make the best path difficult to actually do. For example, this site uses a third party theme which is loading font [...]
CLI Fix Audio Level on Video Files
Sometimes you have video files that have very quiet audio and this simple command line bash script will find how much gain it can add to the file without clipping and apply it for you. fix-audio-levels <filename> Install To install this simply run (ideally in a folder that is in your path like /usr/local/bin or ~/bin if [...]
Improve WikiJS Search
Out of the box, wikijs uses the “Database – Basic” as its search option which works ok for simple content but there are better options that you can enable. I recommend switching to ElasticSearch, it will greatly improve the search quality and the overall user experience of finding content in wikijs. When using [...]
Adobe Photography Plan vs Photoshop Only
If you are in the market to get Photoshop, you will find lots of strange pricing option with very little explanation about the difference. At the end of the day, Adobe wants you to buy the All Product Plan and lock in with a year commitment at $55/mo. Here are the differences between the Photography plans and why each exists. (Prices [...]
Continue Printing When Toner is Low on Canon Laser Printers
Here we are in 2022, and printers are still the worst (check out this very accurate comic by The Oatmeal). Canon laser printers will annoyingly warn you when the toner gets low requiring you to press a continue button on each print, then they will stop letting you bypass the message. I have a Canon MF634 Printer that stopped [...]
Short Twitter Usernames
Ever wonder who jumped on early on twitter or bought out short twitter usernames? This list was last updated May 2022. Single Character Usernames https://twitter.com/a – Andrei Zmievski – March 2007 – https://twitter.com/b – suspended https://twitter.com/c – suspended https://twitter.com/d – suspended [...]
Windows 11 + Adobe CS4
Can you install Adobe CS4 on Windows 11? It will install but it will break explorer from running with an error in BIB.dll Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.22000.832, time stamp: 0x8947d46cFaulting module name: BIB.dll_unloaded, version: 1.2.1.1551, time stamp: 0x4845e497Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: [...]
