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 [...]
Fix HTTP2 Header Errors on Nginx Reverse Proxy
You might get an HTTP2 error from curl and Safari browsers even though the page loads fine on Chrome and Firefox. curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) Safari Can't Open the Page Safari can't open the page "https://steve.zazeski.com/". The error is: "cannot parse response" [...]
Dot New Urls That I Wish I Knew About Sooner
Officially Google is the operator of the top level domain .new which contains url shortcuts for the fastest way to create a New Google doc but they opened it up to others. It is a TLD (top level domain) that you can purchase for $500/yr but it has rules of what you can do with the domain. whats.new is the overall directory [...]
RAID or ZFS Storage Guide
It’s 2022 and you want to set up some local large disk storage. What should you use? I recommend using ZFS as a good general-purpose storage solution and I want to cover what it does well and what it doesn’t do great at. I’ve been running a small ZFS pool for a few years now. But keep in mind, if you have custom [...]
FlashPrint Opens Off-Screen
If you open FlashPrint and the app appears in your taskbar but not as a window on the screen, it might be due to your monitor setup. The app records what the last window position is and places it back there. If you have a multiple monitor setup and open the app later without a screen you might have a massively negative number on your [...]
Fixing To Be Filled In By OEM on Custom Built Machines
Something that has always bugged me after building my own machine is Windows doesn’t know what brand and model your machine is. It’s not a big deal, but it shows up in some weird places and I just wish I could set it. I always thought this was set in the driver firmware but turns out it’s just in the Windows Registry To [...]
Acronym Lookup
I run across lots of weird acronyms and try to add to this list so future people searching for these will not waste so much time to get these. Meijer / Walmart / CVS HBCOTC = Health & Beauty Care – Over the Counter Biotech PCR = Polymerase chain reaction qPCR = quantitative PCR or real-time PCR that uses fluorescent [...]
