techniko

Work gave me a subscription so I use Opus in M365 Copilot rather than paying for my own Claude/ChatGPT/etc. It's a bit quirky in that it won't accept a lot of file formats, but appending .txt to the end works. I also use https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt to combine everything into one file which also helps.

I had some extra cash after buying a new PC and decided to splurge on the PowerPlay, thinking it would just be an expensive trinket. I was wrong. It charges the mouse while you're using it, keeping it at an appropriate level (80%?) so that it doesn't ruin the battery by being at 100%. You literally do not have to remember to plug it in or swap out a battery. It's a gamechanger.

To make it really nice, I paired it with one of those XXL mousepads. Cut some corflute or other material that's the same thickness as the PowerPlay, and you can have your own nice large mousepad while having the wireless mouse charger hidden beneath it.

On certain Kobo devices you can sign in to your Libby/Overdrive account to borrow ebooks

The first thing I thought of when reading this article was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15567707 where someone created a model that filters Hacker News for articles potentially interesting for them

I have a Libra 2, but I don't think it should be that different.

You log in/create an Overdrive account on your Kobo (Libby is made by Overdrive), add your library card to your Overdrive account and you're good.

Then when you search for books on the store on your Kobo you click the three dot menu (next to the buy button) and "Borrow" will be an option if it's available from your library.

Otherwise after connecting Overdrive you can use the Libby app on your phone or wherever to borrow books, then just connect to wifi and sync your Kobo, and it automatically downloads the borrowed books

I made an extension for my teachers that let them put a Google Doc onto Google Classroom, from the Google Doc. It's weird how Google doesn't have that built in, but it means that my teachers don't have to open up a new tab and go through the process, they can just do it from the Doc. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/share-doc-to-...

I also made an extension that opens the current page (or link/video/image) in a popup window. Because I have so many tabs sometimes I just want one window, and it does it. I have options for half/third/full screen size so I can have them side by side (as well as just dragging to resize the window). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/focus-popup/

I also made an extension that fixed a specific issue on Apple Intranet Wikis playing videos in Chrome, but that Wiki system isn't used anymore.

Usually my extensions are just to fix minor problems/annoyances.

It now shows you a list of files before and after

It uses JSZip to open the zip file, goes through and if the filename matches '__MACOSX' it removes it. That catches the hidden folders and files.

If you want go to JSZip's demo 'Reading a file' https://stuk.github.io/jszip/documentation/examples/read-loc... and drag your original zip in there to have a look at the hidden files and folders, and then the generated zip to see what was taken out

EDIT: updated link