I'm a 35 year old UIUC Computer Engineer building mobile apps, websites and hardware integrations with an interest in 3D printing, biotechnology and Arduinos.
Mockgen Adding Periods to Comments
If you suddenly are getting periods adding to every mockgen comment lines, its probably because you are building it natively on your machine (mac or windows) instead of the linux docker job that normally does it. openanalytics 3206 views
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 [...]
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
Most epub files are not saved to have small filesizes because they expect you to download them once to a device. However, if you use something like calibre-web which stream the file to readers every time you open the epub reader, you will wish they used better compression. So epubs are actually just zip files with html text formatting [...]
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 openanalytics 4622 views