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Font rendering on a Mac is a lot better looking than either windows or most Linux distributions. There is an easy way to improve it a lot. Edit the file '/etc/environment' and add or change the following: FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0" Confirmed working on PopOS. The original source/article can be found here: https://blog.aktsbot.in/no-more-blurry-fon ...

A few years ago, i started developing an interest in drones and robotics. I've always been interested in electronics and it's possibilities in combination with computers, but especially after the release of the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms it's never been easier to make your own electronic appliances/gadgets. The popularity of drones, rovers and robots is quite obvious in these times, unfort ...

When i was working on a certain project, i needed charts for various visualisations. The charts were quite simple, but at the time i could only find several more complicated and feature-rich libraries. I started out with charts.js which is excellent, but felt kind of sluggish and overkill for the intended charts. Since my frontend skills are quite outdated (but definitely existent), i was looking ...

Ohmyzsh is an addon for your zsh based terminal. It makes a lot of things a great deal easier such as command auto completion, being able to see which branch you are working, but there is a lot more where that came from. The full documentation is located here: documentation Although setting up ohmyzsh is pretty straightforward, i found out that using some themes (for example agnoster) require some ...

In order to use ohmyzsh it is neccesary to switch to the zsh shell. On a Mac it is the default shell as far as i recollect, but switching is quite easy. Some advantages of using zsh with ohmyzsh are command autocompletion and better integration with git. Just input the following command in your terminal app: chsh -s /bin/zsh Or, to go back to bash: chsh -s /bin/bash In theory, it is also quite ea ...

This small release based on Laravel, downloads Dutch address data from publicly available BAG data. It downloads, extracts and parses the data to a database and makes it available via a simple API. You can download it here: https://github.com/bpeperkamp/laravel_bag The original idea is not mine, i just wanted to build it in a PHP/Laravel way. The software made by Bert Hubert inspired me, and also ...

For some reason, a Samba file server and it's services are not always properly announced to the network neighborhood in Windows. Avahi should be enough in most cases, but a lot of times you need a extra daemon for that. The program works just fine and does what it is supposed to do, but sometimes i still get strange errors, eg. shares not being available at first click. If i find a solution to thi ...

For a small hacking project i needed to connect to a device via it's serial interface. Not having a USB to serial interface i started looking around the internet to buy one. After some thought, i started looking through my electronics and realized that many devices already have serial interfaces that can connect via USB. The most obvious one, being my Arduino. After some Googling, i found two sugg ...