I'm a 34 year old UIUC Computer Engineer building mobile apps, websites and hardware integrations with an interest in 3D printing, biotechnology and Arduinos.
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 [...]
Reducing WordPress Load from XMLRPC
Every so often my website would get hit with high load but when I looked at the website analytics, I wouldn’t see any traffic that would explain it. It wasn’t until I was analyzing the nginx access logs through splunk that I realized what was causing it. Every couple days the xmlrpc.php file was getting hit hard by a bot. [...]
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 and while I seen some issues, still recommend [...]
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 [...]
