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.
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 just not there yet so here is how to do it anyways. Wikijs offers 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 [...]
Using Methyl Ethyl Ketone MEK to remove leftover plastics from 3D build platform
If you use something like buildtak or your printer has something like it on the FlashForge printers and you get small pieces of plastic stuck to it. Is it safe to use MEK to remove it? NO It will strip off all the texture from the build platform
Apple iBook
I have fond memories in middle school getting to use these laptop on mobile computer lab carts. These brightly colored laptops were such a change of pace from the blocky grey or black windows laptops. Apple iBook G3 Clamshell M2453 I have the first edition of the colored iBook Model M2453, released on July 21, 1999. Maxed out the memory, [...]
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 [...]
