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When deciding if a blog for T.LY link shortener, should be on a separate domain, I reached out to IndieHackers to get their opinion. I originally was going to use my tdotly.com domain for the blog and marketing site but decided to just use blog.t.ly and /blog redirects on T.LY fr … | Continue reading
When you are considering buying a product on Amazon, how much do the reviews matter to you? Most people see lots of 5 stars and assume that the product must be great! Unfortunately, this may not be the best solution for validating Amazon reviews. Often people are sent free produc … | Continue reading
With a recent update, my TCL 65″ with Roku now supports Apple Airplay. Airplay has been the one feature I’ve wished my Roku TV supported. Only 4K-compatible Roku devices will work with AirPlay, which leaves out the cheapest players. To use AirPlay, your compatible Roku device mus … | Continue reading
With the release of iOS14 and XCode 12, NativeScript apps started crashing. Unfortunately, the timing conflicted with the release of NativeScript 7 which caused lots of confusion. I ran into this issue with a NativeScript app that I built. Since I didn’t want to update the entir … | Continue reading
Wyze just released the V3 of their camera “The Next Generation of Wyze Cam is Here.” I believe this will make the outdoor camera obsolete except in rare situations. I preordered one with the hope of replacing my DIY outdoor camera as soon as it supports RTSP firmware. You can pre … | Continue reading
Amazon’s security camera company Ring just released an indoor flying security drone. I immediately had to check if today was April fools day. To my surprise, this appears to be a real product Amazon is planning to release in 2021. So many questions and concerns come to mind. Who … | Continue reading
Cloudflare offers a neat feature for free to capture the country code of visitors hitting your web server. This can be useful for many different applications. For example, if you would like to offer discounts to customers from other countries, block certain countries from accessi … | Continue reading
Recently I signed up for Hulu to watch the last season of Lost. Spoiler alert the last season is quite disappointing. After searching for something else to watch on Hulu and not being able to find anything interesting, I decided to cancel. This should be simple but then there wou … | Continue reading
Over the past 5 years, Weather Extension has gone through many changes. The first version was pretty basic. It showed the hourly and daily forecast. Over time I’ve added the ability to add multiple locations, weather alerts, translated the extension to 32 languages, support for m … | Continue reading
I purchased the original AirPods back in 2017 when they were first released. They have been my favorite product of the past couple of years and I highly recommend them. Recently I noticed the batteries in the pods not lasting as long as they used to. I was considering getting the … | Continue reading
Everyone has a different opinion on phone cases these days. Some people are willing to take the risk and go no case while others go hardcore and carry their phone around in a bulletproof enclosure that they could throw off a building. If you ever see the “no casers”, they often h … | Continue reading
Wyze recently released its outdoor camera that everyone has been anticipating. They look great and are priced affordably for an outdoor battery-powered camera. I went ahead and preordered 1 for $64.78 shipping in August 2020. But this post is not going to be about the battery-pow … | Continue reading
Many people I know use the same simple password across multiple sites. All it takes is one of the sites to be hacked and all their accounts are now compromised. I recommend going to Have I Been Pwned to check and see if your email has been compromised. Most likely you will be sur … | Continue reading
Recently I added the ability for users to add custom domains to the link shortener T.LY. This allows users to add their own domains to brand their short URLs. Custom domains are included in all subscription plans. Want to be able to share links with your own domain? Click here to … | Continue reading
Due to COVID-19, I have been working from home for the past few weeks. Fortunately, I have a nice office setup with a standing desk. I usually stand in the morning and sit in the afternoon. This gives me a good balance which is recommended when using a standing desk. I quickly no … | Continue reading
Of course, if you are looking for a weather app for your browser, you should definitely be using Weather Extension. But if you are in search of an app for your phone while on the go, here is a list of some of my favorites. Leave a comment below of your favorite weather app. Dark … | Continue reading
If you have a need to wirelessly monitor the temperature or humidity of a room, attic or even a crawl space, the Govee Thermometer Hygrometer is a great device! I currently have 3 of them monitoring my attic, crawl space, and kid’s room. They have a nice screen but also sync over … | Continue reading
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a new iOS and Android app using NativeScript. One of the requirements is to compress and upload images. I figured this would be pretty straightforward but couldn’t find any examples of how to accomplish image compression. Afte … | Continue reading
Recently we had our kitchen cabinets painted and new hinges installed. Everything looked great but the cabinet doors overlapped slightly on the edge due to the new hinges and additional paint. We knew this would cause a lot of frustration and we had to find a way to fix it. Most … | Continue reading
If you are a coffee drinker, you know how much habbit can add up. Want to save on a $1 on every cup? You need to get the Cash app by Square. Cash is a free payment app similar to Venmo or Paypal with a bonus. Once you get their debit card, you are able … | Continue reading
For some unknown reason, Apple has never added a native way to remove completed reminders from their Reminders App. Over the past few years, I have completed over 2,500 reminders and never deleted them. To delete them manually would have taken forever. Fortunately, with the new S … | Continue reading
Since Goo.gl shut down back in March 2019, there have not been many other options for shortening URLs. Bitly and Rebrandly are the top companies in the link shortening space but I believe they are too expensive and more complicated than what most people need. Over the past couple … | Continue reading
I’ve been using the Ring Doorbell Pro for the past couple of years. It has been a great camera/doorbell with very few issues. Ring recently released a new app for iOS and Android that allows quick access to view the camera. It is called Rapid Ring. The original Ring app is great … | Continue reading
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a URL Shortener Service. When testing the ability to shorten really long urls (over 3500+ characters) I ran into an issue I had never seen before. When trying to redirect to the long url, NGINX would return a 502 error (upstre … | Continue reading
Over the past several months, I have been working on a Link Shortener Extension for Chome and Firefox which has grown to over 50,000 users! The feedback has been great and many users love how simple it is to shorten long links. The extension allows users to select their default s … | Continue reading
There is a famous quote “Everything that can be invented has been invented” believed to be by Charles H. Duell a commissioner of US patent office from 1889. Even though this quote is not accurate, it shows that many people believe the best inventions already exist. Of course, we … | Continue reading
Batteries are expensive so I try to buy them in bulk and get the best deal. I recently came across a video on YouTube of a guy who goes really in-depth on what AA battery is the best buy. I’ve been a fan of the Amazon basic AA batteries but wasn’t really sure how they … | Continue reading
I often need to copy a variable in Chrome dev tools console to my clipboard. Fortunately, Chrome has this feature built-in using the copy() function. | Continue reading
Recently I moved into a house that has a Diakin mini-split system (FTX12NMVJU / RX12NMVJU) in the bonus room. Mini-splits are known for being extremely energy efficient but unfortunately, I was not… | Continue reading
I often need to take screenshots and annotate them with arrows. I’ve tried several screenshot programs over the years such as the default print screen that comes on macOS and Windows. They wo… | Continue reading
Ever wanted to control a light switch on a schedule? What about turning them on when your Wyze camera detects motion? Smart light switches are great for automating lights on different schedules, v… | Continue reading
If you have ever need to forward or call another controller from a controller in Laravel, here are two methods This will redirect the request to another controller’s method. return redirect()->action('AnotherController@method'); You can also call another method directly without d … | Continue reading
I recently set up two ecobee4 smart thermostats in my home. I choose ecobee over nest because of the native Homekit integration. The overall installation was not too difficult since I had existing C-wire’s in both of my units. One of the biggest features smart thermostats give yo … | Continue reading
When using macOS zip tool from the command, you may want to exclude certain files by name or extensions. I often need to do this when automating extension bundles for a release. Here is the command… | Continue reading
The battery life for the John Deere Gator XUV made by Peg Perego is around 25 minutes. I wanted to see if it was possible to double the battery life. After some research, I decided the best option … | Continue reading
After updating to macOS Mojave, I started getting a prompt for a user name and password everytime I debugged golang in GoLand. This was frustrating but I was able to stop it from prompting by runni… | Continue reading
The default configuration for running windows inside of VMware Fusion on a mac is to have ctrl + left click act as a right click. This can cause issues when trying to select multiple files etc. For… | Continue reading
Have you ever wanted to remove some of your followers on twitter? Twitter does not provide a native way to do this, but you can automate it in your browsers developer console. Steps: Login to your … | Continue reading
After a recent upgrade to macOS Mojave, my machine was not able to debug in GoLand due to the error below: could not launch process: exec: “lldb-server”: executable file not found in $P… | Continue reading
When zipping a folder using the command line in macOS, you may have noticed certain files are include such as DS_Store and __MACOSX are included. With a few command arguments, these files can be fi… | Continue reading
Seth’s post titled First, ten from back in 2009 is still relevant today. If you are building a product, finding your first ten users can be challenging but they are the first s… | Continue reading
When using Cloudflare to manage your site, you may notice that if you check the ip address of the request, it will be an ip address from Cloudflare. This is happening because Cloudflare is proxying… | Continue reading
Weather Extension The best way to see the Weather right in your browser. Easier than looking outside! Weather automatically locates and displays your current weather forecast, hourly and 7-day fore… | Continue reading
Browser extensions are composed of Javascript, HTML, CSS, and images. Before installing any extension I will usually review the source code. This is important to verify that an extension is not doi… | Continue reading