Sorting your video collection by frame width or height on Windows' File Explorer
You can use File Explorer on Windows to sort videos by its dimensions. But there are a few caveats since not all video files show their width/height by default. For that you need to download extra free codecs.
NFC quirk as a HID keyboard
I got an NFC reader at work and had to begin registering cards for our newly installed door-entry system. Sadly, instead of proper UIDs of the cards, I would get what seemed incorrect data at first and I thought that it was a Linux issue since it worked fine on a Windows VM in pass-through mode.
Disabling that pesky turbo button on my gamepad
I started playing a racing game again and the way I have my bindings bound for it, I would accidentally press the gimmicky turbo button which on this specific old gamepad of mine was right next to the d-pad. I wanted to somehow disable the turbo button and I didn’t realise until I disassembled the gamepad that a small piece of electrical tape was all I needed.
Connecting a USB 3 drive to a WiFi router causes signal interference
I own a router with a USB 3 port and I was surprised that connecting a USB 3 drive to it kills the router’s 2.4 GHz WiFi completely. While it might sound like superstition, USB 3 WiFi interference is a known issue.
Lazarus IDE and your program in dark mode on Microsoft Windows
Following up on my previous post about making the Pascal IDE Lazarus look more modern by docking its floating windows into one (and arguably more comfortable to some) single program window, this time I’d like to write about a dark-mode package which makes not only the IDE itself run in dark-mode on MS Windows, but even allows you to support dark-mode in your own applications.