Every month I copy all images and videos from my phone over to my laptop. How to do it quickly with Windows File Explorer: Connect your phone with a USB cable. Open the root Phone folder in Windows Explorer. Search for the relevant year and month, e.g. *201911 for November 2019. All photos and videos are then selected. Copy all the files. This works for my Android phone’s camera, WhatsApp […]
Question: Are inline skate bearings with rubber shields lighter than those with metal shields? Answer: A rubber shield bearing is 10.9 grams while a metal shield bearing is 11.3 grams. How I found out: I weighed a set of twelve new Wicked Twincam ILQ-9 Classic metal shield bearings. They weigh 135 g in total, which equates to 11.3 g each. Then I did the same for a set of new […]
Problem: Footage from my GoPro Hero 7 Black flickers if I shoot indoor. Solution: Go to Preferences -> Regional -> Video Format. Select PAL. From my tests, 25 fps and 50 fps are completely flicker free indoor under artificial lights. Computer monitors and TVs are also perfectly fine. The point is that these rates are only available under PAL. With NTSC you have the option between in 30 fps, 60 […]
Problem: Populate a drop-down list with array values. After a user selects a value, get the array index of that value. Solution: Populate the value attributes with the array indexes. These are hidden from the user. Here’s a working example: The page is nothing but a drop-down list: When a selection is made, a text is printed: P.S. In this example the first option is Select Car. It is not […]
Problem: Generate a pdf on a website (client side) with user input. Solution: Use the pdfMake library! To get started, make a html file: Save the above code as an html file. Also save the two scripts (pdfmake.js and vfs_fonts.js) in the same folder. Then open the html file in a browser, fill in a name, and click the button. You should now be able to save or open a […]
Problem: My WP theme (Golpo) shows both ‘published’ and ‘updated’ dates for posts even if I made a small edit right after publishing. I want a 24 hour grace period. Solution: Go to Appearance -> Theme Editor and open inc/template-tags.php. The function golpo_posted_on initially begins with: Simply modify the if condition:
Problem: Is there any WordPress plugin that displays CSS and JS inside HTML code? Status: Not solved! Partial solution only, Background: I want WordPress to display mixed HTML+CSS+JS with colored syntax similar to this example from Brackets: Brackets understands that lines 7-11 are CSS, and lines 21-28 are JS. I tried the popular plugins SyntaxHighlighter Evolved and Enlighter. Neither did the job correctly, but the latter had a better UX […]
My Russian Name is a tool for converting a name into Russian (Cyrillic) spelling. To make the transliterations as accurate as possible, it is not sufficient to convert on a per-character basis. To improve the quality, I made a crawler that collected transliterations for a few thousand names on Russian Wikipedia. With more time, and a larger sample of names, it should be possible to make this tool nearly perfect.
My first inline skating video in over a year: I’m very grateful (and positively surprised) for all the warm feedback!
I filmed this while walking world’s busiest pedestrian intersection – the Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo, Japan. Filmed at 1080p, 60 fps with Sony a6300. Color grading with Hitfilm Express.