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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tech Burnout
The dreaded b-word. In today’s fast-paced world, it can sometimes feel inevitable. But is it really? Anyone can burn out — it’s not how many hours you work or the number of jobs, but if you are actually enjoying how you spend your day. Burnout occurs when there is a difference between what you tell yourself you do and [...]
Compressing epub in Linux CLI
Many epub files are not saved in optimized sizes because the intended path is that you download them once to a device. However, if you use something like calibre-web and stream the file to readers every time you open the epub reader, you might wish some better compression was used. epubs are actually just zip files, with some very [...]
Changing Primary Color Theme in wiki.js V2
Currently, custom theming in wiki.js V2 is not there yet. It does offer Code Injection in the administration panel. First I tried putting in CSS override, but quickly found that most of the styles in wiki.js are applied at the tag style="" level or on classes using the !important flag which makes overriding it very difficult. So I ended [...]
Improving 10G Performance
When you first make the jump from 1G Ethernet to 10G you will be both impressed with the speed jump and also a bit disappointed that you can’t actually send a full DVD (8GB) in a second. Bottlenecks To get better 10G speed will require resolving many input/output bottlenecks on your network ranging from your disk drives being able [...]
Using Jenkins to Monitor SSL Certificates
There are great tools like Let’s Encrypt to generate free HTTPS certificates for your websites, but sometimes certbot renewals fail. Everyone should have some level of monitoring to ensure that your site has a valid SSL. It’s always embarrassing to go to a site you run and find the dreaded blocked page. If you are looking for [...]
