Does anyone happen to have some grey Model M keycaps they no longer need? Specifically the Right Ctrl, Left Arrow and End keys, since mine seem to have gone walkabout sometime in the last 33 years.
Today's interesting work problem (solved) was, given a photoshop file containing an arbitrary collection of layers, export pngs of each layer composited on the background layer (i.e. for each layer, composite it with the background (or last layer) and export just those two layers as a merged png)
Had to be cross platform (Windows and Mac), so I used extendscript (javascript with bits for photoshop). I am not a javascript coder, but it’s similar enough to C syntax, and there’s lots of doco online, so I got there in the end.
I used Layer Comps to composite the layers, and then the use can File -> Export -> Layer Comps to Files.
Next step is to make that bit a little less onerous / error prone.
(If anyone has this weird requirement and would like the script, I’m happy to post, but it’s pretty niche).
I’ve run a business, I know how important advertising is, but dammit, agencies whose entire existence is based on selling advertising space, can get in the sea.
Six fairly similar coat rack hooks fresh from the forge. The two on the left had a wee mishap whereby the knobs on one end broke off, so they became curls.
I am amused. One the one hand, Microsoft is introducing Recall, which literally takes screenshots of everything you do on windows, but on the other hand, they are taking users ability to take screenshots of their browser away if their company configures it as such.
First up, I think everyone did a bang up job, much better than I could have at any rate. However, we somehow have to whittle down the entries to just three to vote on, and as part of that process, I needed to shortlist a selection.
So without further ado, my shortlist is (in no particular order):
This mornings seemingly fruitless task is attempting to read 36-32 year old floppy disks in a drive that may be suspect using a greaseweazle fdd controller board.
If you need to use Google search (I mostly do not but this may change).
Add: &udm=14
to the end of the search string in the URL and it will force Web mode.
My limited testing this morning shows the results as being similar to say 2019 era results (but with up to date content). But better, because No ads, no sponsored results, and the results provided seem to be actual websites relevant to the search.
Dunno how long this state of affairs will last, but use while you can :)
Science type field researchers, I’m after a good quality wildlife/trail camera with excellent night video/photo abilities and reasonable battery life. Ideally suited to Australian conditions.
It will be situated in a high rainfall area, with ambient temperature ranges of 5ºC to 45ºC depending on time of year.
My current cheapy ali-express one often decides it isn’t going to record anything.
Given how crap web searching is these days, I figured I’d get better recommendations from people who actually use these things professionally.