This is a full, copy-it-exactly guide to the wind sensor that now lives inside the aircon housing on the side of our condo in Manila. Total spend was about PHP 1,500 (roughly £20), the build is two wires and a 3D-printed bracket, and the reason it exists is that a weather forecast cannot tell you […]
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Modern Matrix (Matrix Rain) Screensaver
I created a modern Matrix screensaver from scratch There is a screensaver I have had a soft spot for since forever: GLMatrix, the 3D “digital rain” from the XScreenSaver collection. Green katakana tumbling toward you in proper perspective, with that hazy depth where the far characters fade off into the dark. I have run it […]
Better SofaBaton X2 Integration for Home Assistant & Apple HomeKit
SofaBaton X2 + Home Assistant: MQTT is a Disaster, Here’s How to Fix It So I’ve been doing a pretty major overhaul of my smart home setup, moving everything into Home Assistant as the “brain” and then exposing devices back to Apple Home via the HomeKit Bridge integration. Part of this involved getting my SofaBaton […]
RedGifs Not Loading with PLDT Philippines
So, one lonely night I noticed that when using the Narwhal Reddit App with PLDT that any Redgifs content takes an incredibly long time to load. We’re talking 2-3 min minutes to load like a 10mb gif. I did a bunch of testing by routing my iPhone traffic through my Macbook and checking the requests […]
Do your downloads Pause or Stop/Start?
Are you finding that your downloads behave strange from certain websites? Like, the download is still active but it seems to pause over and over again? Or has a Stop/Start pattern? Try disabling UDP Flood Defence on your routers Firewall! On a Draytek Vigor, this is under Firewall > Defence Setup. You can also just […]
Apple iMessage “An unknown error has occurred” cannot sign in on MacOS – Solved!
The Problem: For a number of months I have had an issue with being able to sign into the Messages (iMessage) app on MacOS on my Macbook Pro. What happens is that I try and login, but the loading circle will rotate for 2-3 minutes and then “An unknown error has occurred” will be displayed. […]
The 15 Best Video Games Consoles of All Time
A friend of mine recently posted a link to this Guardian article about the best video game consoles ranked. This absolutely pile of trash disguised an article got me so outraged that it forced me to sit in front of my computer on a Saturday afternoon and write my first blog post in three years […]
TP-Link TL-R480T+ Policy Routing Not Working? Disable Fail over!
If you are using a TP-Link TL-R480T+ load balancing router and have been adding in Policy Routing rules only to find out that they don’t work, then you need to go into the Link Backup page and disable any fail over settings you have. A bit of a weird one, but it is the case […]
Sky Cable Philippines’ broken internet connection to Hong Kong and Singapore
I’ll open with this; chances are if you are reading this from a Sky Cable Philippines Broadband connection then it probably took well over a minute to load the page, that’s if the page even opened at all! The reason for this is that this website is hosted in the UK and to connect from […]
How to get Lightberry to output 4K 60fps with HD Fury Linker
You may have read my previous guide on how to setup and configure the Lightberry HD and come across a line where I said… If you are a 4K user, then you will want to purchase the 4K kit from Lightberry instead as it uses a different HDMI grabber. If you are thinking “Well, I […]