Amazing what the internet can find – Vinyl Cutter Drivers

I've recently got a vinyl cutter, and so have gone down the path of trying things out. I bought some software to use with it, and played with a few drivers and boom, it worked... until the other day. Yesterday, I thought I'd swap things over to my laptop on High Sierra. Suddenly, the cutter...

Get MP3 ID3 Metadata from remote URLS

Firstly, I didn't create this, I've just making it easy to understand with a full example. You can read more of it here, but only because of archive.org. To begin, download this library from here: http://getid3.sourceforge.net/ when you open the zip folder, you'll see 'getid3'. Save that folder in to your working folder. Next, create...

RGB Lights for the MAC

I have bought this for 3 bucks. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/282231990280 I'll be combining the knowledge from this post: https://www.instructables.com/id/USB-NeoPixel-Deco-Lights-via-Digispark-ATtiny85/ And this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnWZdxMytaA   And will look at getting some RGB lights https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/5V-LED-Strip-WS2812B-5050-RGB-30-60-144LEDs-M-ws2812-IC-Individual-Addressable/253054192813?var=552124369523 And this https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/324032880391 As well as some joiners. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/5Pcs-3-pin-connectors-PCB-Solderless-for-WS2811-WS2812B-SK6812-led-pixel-strip/112087601742?hash=item1a18f1124e:g:Xs0AAOSwMtxXqWWg This could be a bit of fun to brighten up my desk set up. :D...

IONIC Build Errors with solutions

Hi friends, As I'm working on different apps, on multiple platforms and things, I thought I'd start a list of some of the errors I'd been getting, and how I solved them in IONIC. Some of these solutions may help you. Most of these are for v3 of IONIC. Other settings vary. I'm sure I'll...

High Sierra Security Update Jan 2020 Problem

Today, I followed the update procedure of Apple to update to the latest MacOS Security updates. And... it didn't go so well... https://twitter.com/StephenMonro/status/1227843291967737857 I tried the old PRAM reset and also an SMC reset as well. It still didn't work. I got in to the recovery part as well, and was able to do a...

I hate asynchronous JS programming

This has to be the biggest problem I face when using JS. It's not like VB, VBScript, BAT, BAS, C# or other serial, linear programming languages. It drives me crazy. I'm still of the opinion that all code should still be sequential by default, and if you want a function to be async, then you...

Ionic 3 Background Geolocation

It's taken a long time to get to this stage, but this is just the start... After having followed the instructions on this site, I got a long way. But, I also only got so far as well... Here is a copy of my "home.ts" file for an app.   import { Component } from...

Leaflet Performance issues

I'm really enjoying working with Leaflet at the moment, but this problem had plagued me for days, where all of a sudden, my performance levels dropped to almost nothing. Basically I went from this: this.globals.map.locate( { maxZoom: 111, drawControl: true, watch:true, enableHighAccuracy:true }).on('locationfound', (e) => { this.locationdata = { "coords":{"latitude": e.latlng.lat, "longitude": e.latlng.lng, "accuracy" :...

node-sass ionic nodejs error fix

Sometimes you go on a bug fixing journey and get no-where. Like always, when I find a solution to a lengthy problem, I write it up so I can remember it later. I had this error show up, after doing an update to the latest version of Ionic, and for over an hour and a...

DOSBOX Autoexec.bat

This took me a while to locate on my computer, but I eventually found it, and I'll share the location and what I've done. The current official wiki is here, but it seems to not reflect my current situation. The settings for me are located here: /Users/stephenmonro/Library/Preferences/DOSBox 0.74 Preferences This is a text file, and...