Make Thunderbird comfortable. Why use Thunderbird? So that whenever you need a 4 yr old email with that certificate you have no physical copy of it, but you don’t know the name of the mail, sender, or anything. Searching with Google takes too much time. Besides, it is always a good idea to keep a… Continue reading Customizing Thunderbird
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Working with Asus Aura SDK(Asus ROG Strix G15 keyboard RGB Lighting Library)
There are 2 prereqs for this to work. Aura SDK, it turns out, was bundled with the Armoury Crate and associated programs that were installed from the factory. The PyWin32 Readme cautioned to not use pip, hence I used the binary installer instead. Like most PCs nowadays, my laptop architecture is amd64. I used scoop… Continue reading Working with Asus Aura SDK(Asus ROG Strix G15 keyboard RGB Lighting Library)
Windows Setup Guide
This is a checklist I use for setting up my windows machine. Unlike my linux machines, setting up a windows requires me to painstakingly download and install each application. Scoop is a package manager that will, hopefully, remove some of that pain. Install Scoop Install Git Add Extras Bucket(PPA/repository) Install required packages Add CapsToEscape AHK… Continue reading Windows Setup Guide
Firefox Custom Search: Speeding up Debugging
In my time over at Browserstack, I had to go through a lot of dashboards while debugging. All these look-ups followed a simple pattern. Over the course of a debugging session, we required data from at least 3 dashboards, sometimes going up to 6. I am talking about simple status pages, which have tabulated data… Continue reading Firefox Custom Search: Speeding up Debugging
Want any window to work like Guake? Appearing and disappearing with a hotkey? Use this script
Requirements Linux, Mac has a nifty tool for this, which inspired this script X11 (X Window System), wmctrl doesn’t work with Wayland awk for text processing wmctrl for manipulating windows You should be able to get awk and wmctrl in your package manager of choice. You can clone the gist by this command After you… Continue reading Want any window to work like Guake? Appearing and disappearing with a hotkey? Use this script
Sane Mac window switching
In windows, hold alt-tab, then tap tab until the program that you want is selected. Very painless affair. Since I got a Mac at my workplace. I was shown a new way, an annoying way, of window management. Mac Windows Management 101 When you minimize a window with the yellow button at the top left,… Continue reading Sane Mac window switching
Make qmk config changes painless
A while back, I got into the custom keyboard game. It use Arduino Pro Micro as the controller powered by qmk firmware. This is very potent combination, that allows all manner of customization. Some of the interesting ones are: Tap Dance Hit the semicolon key once, send a semicolon. Hit it twice, rapidly – send… Continue reading Make qmk config changes painless