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Eufycam Overexposure Bug Solution

I recently bought a wireless Eufycam 2 setup for our house for piece of mind for my family and our property. The setup process was a...

It Looks Like Thrice Are (Possibly) in the Studio Working on a New Album

The saving of 2021 is upon us. Riley Breckenridge (the drummer of Thrice)...

WordPress download_url Function That Supports Request Headers

I have been working on a WordPress site that parses remote news API’s and...

The Easiest Way To Mine Cryptocurrency in 2021

With the price of Bitcoin hitting a new all-time high and altcoins following suit, there has been renewed interest in cryptocurrency,...

How To Install Eufy Security Cameras Without Drilling or Using Screws

While we build our house, we are currently in a rental property. Sadly, the...

Fender 75th Diamond Anniversary Telecaster Review

I’ve been playing guitar for about 15 years now. And in those 15 years I have gone between playing every style of music you can imagine (except for country). From rock to metal, to djent, blues and shred.From extended...

How To Stream the Neblio Blockchain With Node.js

As interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies heats back up in 2021, there are more blockchains in terms of choice than you can poke a stick at. It just so happens that many of these blockchains are not a beginner or...

Coinspot Is Terrible: Here’s a Better Alternative for Australian Cryptocurrency Trading

I have been trading cryptocurrencies since early 2017. And for a good while, Australians had limited options for reputable and secure exchanges to trade on.The first exchange I joined was Coinspot, which seemed like a...

If Linkin Park Were Ever Looking for a New Vocalist, Sam Carter of Architects Should Be First in Line

For some reason, the tragic loss of Chester Bennington the frontman of Linkin Park still affects me to this day. I didn’t personally know him, but Linkin Park was the soundtrack to my teenage years (like many others...

Would Bing or DuckDuckGo Even Pay for Linking to News in Australia?

In case you missed it, Australia is currently trying to introduce a media bargaining code forcing Facebook, Google and presumably any other company that links to news to pay money to media organisations.It’s as crazy...

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Settings for The HP Reverb G2 Headset and RTX 3070 Graphics Card

Having recently picked up a HP Reverb G2 headset and being excited to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I thought I would share my settings with the game running nicely with this headset and my Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics card. It is no secret that MSFS 2020 is a game that will stress even the highest spec of graphics cards. The 3070 not being the highest-rated GPU you can get right now won’t let you max the settings for MSFS 2020...

Google Threatens To Pull Search Out of Australia Over the Proposed News Media Bargaining Code, and I Am Honestly All for It

The proposed Australian News Media Bargaining Code is a contentious code of conduct that will compel digital companies like Facebook and Google to pay for any news content they link to. In simple terms, if Google links...

WordPress Custom REST API Endpoints With Spaces

I have been working on quite an ambitious WordPress project that has a lot of custom REST API endpoints to work alongside an Aurelia SPA application running on top of WordPress. In this project, I am working with a...

Working With slot & au-slot in Aurelia 2

In Aurelia 2, we have a couple of different ways of working with slotted content. If you are familiar with Web Components, the slot element is a placeholder that can have content projected into it, the common use for...

HP Reverb G2 Virtual Reality Headset Review

The HP Reverb G2 is easily the most exciting virtual reality headset that you can buy in 2021. Furthermore, it is also one of the more affordable options. When evaluating virtual reality headset options, I considered...

Parler comes back online, but should you trust it?

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. It looks like after being dropped by Amazon Web Services and other providers, Parler is back online (sort of) with a message. I guess step one of the revival...

Roland TD-17KVX Drums Review

When I’m not writing JavaScript or brewing beer, I’m an avid guitarist and drummer. I’ve been playing guitar for a while, but drums are somewhat new to me. My first electronic kit was a Roland TD-1KV, an excellent...

Parler is gone, will it ever return?

The free-speech alternative to Twitter called Parler has finally gone down after Amazon said it would be pulling the plug on hosting the controversial platform that houses a wide variety of people from self-taught experts to self-described patriots. If you are not sure why Parler went down, it comes down to the platform being used to organise the Capitol Hill attack and forcing the hand of tech companies to reconcile with the part they...

It’s barely been a month and I am already bored with Cyberpunk 2077

When Cyberpunk 2077 was released, I like many others was excited to get this game we first saw seven years ago finally. The game was eventually released and to say that it was a disaster would be putting it...

Inferred bindable properties in Aurelia 2

About a year or so ago in the internal Aurelia core team chat, I raised an idea for inferred bindings. A lot of the time I find myself binding to values that have the same name as the bindable property. The idea is...

Social media platforms finally deplatform Donald Trump, but is it too little, too late?

Donald Trump has been notorious for spewing hate from his Twitter account long before he became the president. A history of vile attacks including racism and fat shaming. After the violent attacks on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C and some Tweets, Twitter first issued Trump with a 12-hour temporary ban and then subsequently a permanent ban, also limiting access to other accounts including the official @POTUS...