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Ghost Blog: Reduce feature image size within posts

Ghost Blog: Reduce feature image size within posts

Setting a 'feature image' for a post is important if you want a preview image to appear on the home page (This is exactly what I wanted), but... unfortunately by default that 'feature image' will then appear full width at the top of your post. (This is not what I

Kindle report an error: A surprisingly satisfying end-user experience

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Kindle report an error: A surprisingly satisfying end-user experience

Sat on my sofa reading a technical manual (Aruba ACMA Study Guide by HPE Press). I notice a typo, it is small, insignificant, but! it jars me as I am pioneering my way through the book. I feel compelled to 'do something' about this innocuous error in the book. I

Configure Global Finder View Settings

Configure Global Finder View Settings

You had a rush of blood to the head, you edited (messed around with) the Finder view settings. You think you like the changes you made, but! horror of horrors when you open your next new Finder window, the changes are gone? Only when you return to that specific folder

Duplicate My Browser Tab

I want to duplicate my browser tab... quickly... using a keyboard shortcut, specifically without configuring a macOS specific application Menu Bar action shortcut. Try this: cmd + L to move focus to the address bar cmd + shift + return opens up the current address in a new tab

Toggle Autohide macOS Menu bar

Toggle Autohide macOS Menu bar

This AppleScript will toggle (check / uncheck) the box within System Preferences to: 'Automatically hide and show the menu bar on desktop' tell application "System Preferences" reveal pane id "com.apple.preference.dock" end tell delay 0.5 tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to tell window "Dock

Zoom.us Meeting Mute State Displayed within your menu bar (where it should be)

Zoom.us Meeting Mute State Displayed within your menu bar (where it should be)

Display useful information in your menubar To achieve this we will use an app called SwiftBar Homepage: https://swiftbar.app GitHub homepage: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar 1. Download latest version: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar/releases/latest 2. Choose your desired plugins folder location 3. Download the Zoom.us

3D Design/Printed Wall Bracket for the Virgin Media Super Hub 3

3D Design/Printed Wall Bracket for the Virgin Media Super Hub 3

The Mission Attach my ‘Virgin Media SuperHub 3’ DOCSIS modem to the wall without admitting defeat and simply installing a horizontal shelf for it to sit on. The Wordy Intro Whilst the physical design of the Virgin Media Super Hub is reasonably attractive, upon closer inspection it quickly becomes apparent

Print to PDF on macOS

Print to PDF on macOS

Why the hell would I even want to do that? At the time of writing, on the mac App Store there is a small, relatively inoffensive app called PDF Printer Lite. The premise is simple this application creates a system recognised printer, when this ‘virtual’ printer receives a print job

WLAN Pi animated product video

Availability Trailer To mark the ‘return’ of the WLAN Pi to availability* within the badgerwifi.co.uk store, I created this animated product video. It all started as a relatively simple modelling project in Fusion 360 to enable the production of WLAN Pi ‘stock photograph’ style imagery. As with most

ScreenRig for the LG UltraFine 5K Display

Long story short I needed to mount a "DSLR"* camera above my LG 5K UltraFine Monitor. The "DSLR"* camera will act as a high-quality webcam and is correctly positioned for the creation of video training material and joining Zoom calls. If you own an LG UltraFine monitor and have a

macOS secure input mode

Make it Visible What is it? macOS has this 'thing' / feature called secure input mode, it makes good sense, if the OS determines that you are inputting potentially sensitive data, secure input mode kicks in and prevents ALL keystroke monitoring, even from applications you have explicitly given permission to monitor

Prevent that pop-up toolbar from popping in Google Slides

I using Google Slides as my presentation tool of choice! Mostly for reasons related to the full screen application behaviour, however at the time of writing, I am using Google Slides in "windowed" mode during the creation of training videos. The pop-up toolbar in the lower left-hand corner was starting

Prusa Mini, M3 socket cap bolt and nut recess and clearance

M3 socket cap bolt and nut Dimensions I have found to work when 3D printing with a Prusa Mini, PETG

Type Faster

Introductory fluff It seems crazy that when I was at school, I disliked typing things out, so I wasted time trying to use dictation and bla bla bla. In 2019 the ability of the tech is now pretty good, but I still think that dictation is not the future (at

Hidden Node Podcast

In late 2019, Joel Crane @Potato_Fi and I decided to start recording a podcast. TLDR Hidden Node Podcast, two guys talking tech, 3D printing, prototyping, soldering, fintech, Wi-Fi, almost anything goes. Listen to an episode, or... grab the link to your preferred Podcast app from: https://hiddennode.buzzsprout.com

Two Finger Swipe, forwards and backwards in Google Chrome

Intended Audience macOS users who use Google Chrome, an Apple "Magic" trackpad and the Apple "Magic" Mouse The Quick Version If you would like swipe gesture navigation forwards and backwards in the current version of Google Chrome running on macOS to be consistent between your Trackpad and "Magic" Mouse. ie

Build Your Own Ekahau Custom Report Templates

...well I am creating a Deep Dive session that I will present at WLPC Phoenix 2020 to address this very question. It is my intention that the Deep Dive will equip the attendees with a basic working knowledge of JSON, the Report Template creation workflow, break and fix testing and

cfpi_watchdog Service

Preamble I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W running a project that involves taking pictures of "Raffy" the cat-who-owns-me, triggered by motion as he (Raffy) enters the kitchen through the cat flap. (much, much, more on that topic to come, later...). I was originally making use of the linux package:

Raspbian Service creation from python script

Not intended to be a tutorial, there are plenty of those with much better explanations than I can whip together out there on the nets. This is another page from my notebook of commands that I am endlessly re-Googling. Create a unit file: cd /lib/systemd/system/ sudo nano sample.

Quick Reference - Git

Not intended to be a tutorial on using Git, this is simply a page of my notebook, because I keep forgetting the commands I need. This assumes you have already configured your github username and password. Once the directory / folder you want to version control has been created: git init

Setup Raspberry Pi with Motion 4.2.2 from scratch

Move fast, break things Download latest Raspbian image * https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ Flash your SD card with Raspbian * I used Balena Etcher (now working with Catalina) * https://www.balena.io/etcher/ Mount your freshly flashed SD card * unplug and replug the SD card * Navigate to the SD card

Macro to crop and resize images in Word

macOS Preface This article is mostly intended for users of Ekahau Site Survey Pro generating report documentation. I encourage you to clean-up, manipulate and prepare your floor plans before importing them into Ekahau. This will save you from a headache when it comes to report-writing time. Image manipulation is much

HotelRoom: iOS App debut

I have written an iOS app. It is very simple, solving a simple problem I encountered when travelling for work, changing hotels multiple times during a single business trip. When staying in a hotel with a keycard, I prefer not to carry the cardboard slip around with me. I get

Un-paired Siri Remote will retain IR programming

This post admittedly addresses an incredibly niche scenario, I was pleasantly surprised by this discovery and decided it was worth a sharing in the shape of a small blog post. This is loosely related to the Apple TV request to blast IR commands. I find it hard to comprehend why

Feature Request: Apple TV, more advanced Volume control via IR

The Apple TV 4 / 4K (5th Generation) is great! This is not a review article but I am impressed and satisfied with the Apple TV experience. The Scenario I have a "Bose Solo 5" soundbar attached to the TV via Optical audio input (you know, the fiber optic cable that