I'm a 33 year old UIUC Computer Engineer building mobile apps, websites and hardware integrations with an interest in 3D printing, biotechnology and Arduinos.
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 basic or [...]
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 printing [...]
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: [...]
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" (NSURLErrorDomain:-1017) The [...]
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 [...]
