Gray, a writer.
Metaphor: ReFantazio does offer lists of side quests to level up the party to prepare for the next big battle, that is, up until the new dungeon area, Skybound Avatar, is unlocked for the final-final confrontation. At this point, I had access to few other bounties, few dungeons, and some candidate encounters. Finishing them all,…
One of the things necessary to maintain a VLAN at home or small office is to automate the boot up sequence as much as possible. In case of, say, power outage, you would want the system to be able to boot up on its own, unless you opted Pis and others to turn on manually…
eGPU, the popular Thunderbolt solution for underpowered laptops, seems to be sitting on the back burner for Apple. Considering MacBooks did open the way with much of the eGPU devices and support in the early days, it does make me wonder if the Californian company is seriously considering to make Apple Silicon chips to compete…
Windows needs a lite version. When I’m working with different Linux distros, at least the community comes together to create a lite version, headless version, or a server version, depending on who is the wordsmith in town; we came to terms with the fact such thing is needed. So from where I stand, I find…
Few years ago, correction, a decade ago, I did write a short code to verify copied files. As much as I would like to believe NAS is more tolerant, it would be a moot point if the files were already damaged going in —as the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out. Once I had the…
If you are testing Python scripts on multiple machines, let alone different versions of Python, there is a moment where you would wish to synchronize all the packages across the versions, across the machines. Before I go into the details, I do want to clarify one thing: depending on how you would to set it…
I suspect this is yet another “tabs or spaces” question for developers, but I believe there is a silver lining for all —we want consistent UIs. I want my numpads to work as number pads throughout. There are only few cases when I need it to be something else, be it may directional keys, application…
‘It never gets easier’ as the saying goes. Google, or Alphabet, acquires many unicorn companies only to abandon less successful, if not, less prospective businesses. Makes one wonder who approves these purchases in the first place. But regardless of the firm’s fiscal decision, it is undeniably true that these services, at one point, had some…
I’ve been writing on Ulysses app for some time, and I had been using Ulysses under the assumption that the app is pulling double duty as WordPress post editor; it is not. Ulysses doesn’t have access to posts already published on WordPress. From the email responses I’ve gotten from Ulysses team, it appears this is…
Whenever I need to share a screenshot of one long formatted contents, unless it’s required to keep the originals, I prefer to “stitch” the images together to it one smooth image. Screenshots of fun moments on chat rooms, some good memes on the internet, and etc., are best served as smooth roll. That being said,…
Until recently, I had the emails for themtparty.com to either redirect to each authors or the admin address. I wasn’t interested in having a separate email service for self-hosted WordPress blog, but there were times when I needed @themtparty.com email addresses. If you are subscribing to iCloud+ *, possibly for cloud storage reasons, the package…
In one of the previous post, I wrote a Python code to generate “type-friendly” version of random passwords, where “type-friendly” meant generating clusters of strings. But touchscreen isn’t the only time I want custom grammar rules from password managers. Password managers generally have better UI to create random passwords for whatever length you choose. The…
I wrote an op-ed recently on changing the analytics tool on The Mad Tea Party, and this is my app-to piece on what happened. Now, due to the nature of what GDPR and other privacy related regulations, there are a lot of grey areas. One thing I found while researching what to do with the…
Of many things Apple have added to iPhone, or removed from iPhone, one thing I do not understand is how half-baked Action Button is. It’s true that configurable button is more preferable, but it is also true Action Button is not configurable enough to become a new feature of its own. A lot of it…
With the Lunar New Year now come and gone, it’s time to prepare for other holidays that will come. Again, the macOS calendar does provide default holiday calendar of the place you are at now; but if you are planning to travel, for example, you might want to add a new calendar for destination. And…