The other day, I wondered how to enable dark mode on any of those bright shiny websites. Before long, I found darkmode-js. Here’s how to use it with Tampermonkey.
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A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, posting to WordPress
To finally do some hardware stuff again, I decided to create a simple weather station using one of these very small Raspberry Pi Zero modules. To publish the measurements to, I chose to use a …
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi Zero W/WH, the headless way, with Wifi and VNC enabled
Many have covered this (at least partially), but here’s my ultimate, minimal, quick guide to all the necessary parts, using a Linux box. Use the given commands in a Linux bash terminal. Get the image …
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LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 Wi-Fi (2016)
Steps to install LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy S2 Tablet
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Try .NET (from your Browser)
Just the other day, I learnt that .NET can now run in a browser (which got me flashes of silver light… but this time, it’s something else): It’s some kind of a sandbox, that executes …
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Getting rid of all the bloatware – on a SONY Xperia X Compact.
In a recent release of the german c’t magazine, under “Schlanker Roboter” they described the process of getting rid of the many bloatware that comes along with Android Smartphones today. I went with the method using …
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Defecting from Samsung (Android) to an Apple iPhone
The longest time I have been a happy Samsung phone user, currently with the S4 mini, and liked the ability to flash custom ROM’s like CyanogenMod and it’s sucessor LineageOS. However, having a hard time …
Continue readingWordPress for Kids
How to simplify and secure a WordPress installation for kid’s use? This guide focuses on privacy, security and ease of use. Thus secure access is enforced, a login is required and some UI sugar will …
Continue readingPublishing a CSS User Style as Firefox Extension
To provide the FocusFinder User Style to Firefox users that do not have the Stylish or Stylus browser extension, I want to create a simple Firefox extension that just applies these CSS rules. How easy …
Continue readingAn embeddable single file QR code generator
As HTML/CSS/JavaScript exercise I created* a QR code generator, which is embeddable into any website. It’s even usable offline, because it’s just a single HTML file. Try it And here’s how you embed it, using …
Continue readingRunning NxFilter on a Synology DS115j NAS
To free up my other Raspberry Pi from being a DNS server and to use an already existing NAS on my local LAN, I decided to try to install NxFilter (my favourite DNS filtering solution) …
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