Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Updated 2019-05-08: Added caution about how using lighter fluid on non-glossy pages will render printing inks prone to smudging until it evaporates. Here’s a little trick I picked up after watching a store clerk do it. Step 1: Removing the … Continue reading →

This morning, I realized that I’d never really done anything with the cheap Chinese USB RFID reader I picked up ages ago, so I decided to whip up a little proof of concept for practice: A mock timeclock for tracking … Continue reading →

If you have a Retrode and a copy of Chameleon Twist and you tried to play your dumped game in Mupen64Plus, you may have gotten stuck at this screen on startup. Depending on how your copy of Mupen64Plus is configured, … Continue reading →

A good rule of programming is, if you find something bothersome twice, and you can’t rule out having to do it again, automate it… I had to look up the steps to update my Retrode twice. In short, I wrote … Continue reading →

UPDATE 2025-11-24: Now revised for Python 3, GTK 3, and with added Flatpak support to work around how KDE Discover’s “reboot to update your kernel” indicator overrides the “pending updates” indication on Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. Three years ago, I got … Continue reading →

Since I just had to open an eBay return request for a perfect-looking Super Nintendo cartridge that had been ruined by a leaky battery, I decided to do a thorough inspection of all of my cartridges to determine both the … Continue reading →