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Smart Light Switches
Ever wanted to control a light switch on a schedule? What about turning them on when your Wyze camera detects motion? Smart light switches are great for automating lights on different schedules, voice commands, and...
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How to use Chrome Extensions in Opera
Since Chrome, Firefox, Opera and the latest version of Edge are now using the same web extensions API , many extensions will now work cross-browser with little changes. In Opera, you can follow Opera’s guide for...
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How to Setup Ecobee and Geofence using Homekit
I recently set up two ecobee4 smart thermostats in my home. I choose ecobee over nest because of the native Homekit integration . The overall installation was not too difficult since I had existing C-wire’s in both...
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How to Exclude Files When Zip in macOS
When using macOS zip tool from the command, you may want to exclude certain files by name or extensions. I often need to do this when automating extension bundles for a release. Here is the command I use to exclude...
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PUBG Xbox One SSD
PUBG has been out on Xbox for over a year now. The devs have been working on improving the game but it still has issues loading building. This is especially apparent on Vikendi when landing castle. The one solution...
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John Deere Gator XUV Battery Mod
The battery life for the John Deere Gator XUV made by Peg Perego is around 25 minutes. I wanted to see if it was possible to double the battery life. After some research, I decided the best option was to add an...
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Useful Git Aliases
If you’re a software developer, you most likely use git . Many people are not aware that you can create an alias for commands. Creating alias will make commands easier to remember and quicker to type. Here are some...
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Alternatives to Google Url Shortener
About a year ago, Google announced they would be shutting down their URL shortener service March 30, 2019. Goo.gl has been around since 2009. This is unfortunate because so many people rely on goo.gl for creating...
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Firefox Allow Self Signed Certificate
Firefox is no longer accepting my self signed SSL certificate on .dev domains, which I use for local development. I started seeing this error message: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT . To get around this error,...
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How to Stop Developer Tools Prompting For Password
After updating to macOS Mojave, I started getting a prompt for a user name and password everytime I debugged golang in GoLand. This was frustrating but I was able to stop it from prompting by running this command in...
