There are plenty of resources available on the Internet on how to remove the green screen from images in GIMP. This is fine for the […]
Python, Virtualization, Windows
Run kivy on VirtualBox Windows Guest
You may run into some OpenGL issues while trying to run your Kivy app in your VirtualBox Windows VM. Your Command Line (CMD) may display […]
Python, UNIX/Linux, Virtualization
Run buildozer APK builder from Docker container
There are a few options on how you can run buildozer for turning your Kivy app into an APK bundle for Android devices. You can […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Remove GPS data from images
Before sharing your images on the Internet, you should remove the GPS data from it, unless your intend is to share the location where the […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Extract images from MP4
Extracting individual images from your MP4 files is quite easy with the FFmpeg utility. You may already have it installed on your Linux or MacOS […]
Scripting, UNIX/Linux, Virtualization
Increase vmdk disk in VirtualBox
The steps below are specific to increase a VMDK disk in VirtualBox 6.1.40 for a CentOS 7 guest VM and on a MacOS host. The […]
Electronics, Hacks
Replacing Ring Floodlight Lights
I really like my Ring Floodlights but I am really bothered by their terrible design decision around their non-replaceable LED lights. My Floodlight’s LEDs started […]
Javascript
tar example in nodejs
The snippet below will look inside directory /inputdir and archives the sub-directory called mydirectorywithfiles. The resulting tar file is written to /outdir/mytarfile.tar.gz.
Cloud, Javascript
Using OAuth2 token in GCP Storage API with nodejs
You can use short-lived OAuth2 tokens in many Google Cloud API calls, however you may run into some interesting limitations and quirks, more specifically in […]
Firmware, Scripting, UNIX/Linux
Alternative to Wget and cURL
If you are working on a Linux device that does not have Wget and cURL, or a limited version of either commands, for instance Busybox, […]