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Problem

Blender has Arrange Nodes: one click and the node tree is readable. I wanted the same in the Fusion node view, in Fusion Studio and on the DaVinci Resolve Fusion page. The comp below is a transporter effect with 81 tools. A script built it, so the tools were placed wherever the script put them, with two MediaIns left far away.

One run of Arrange Nodes Horizontal later:

Problem

I have the first generation Lexip Np93 ALPHA mouse. It has an LED, and Lexip makes an app to set its colour, but only for Windows. On Linux, OpenRGB finds the mouse as "Np93 ALPHA - Gaming Mouse". You pick a colour, click Apply, and nothing happens.

Have you ever wondered what is the fastest way to get Array with unique items?

I've got Pine64 Single Board Computer (the first generation) and it has not so low memory, compared to Raspberry Pi, mine has 2GB. But still, when having there Prometheus.io, Nextcloud and rTorrent (with ruTorrent for web interface), plus samba share, it suddenly isn't that much, those 2GB of memory.

This is short example about Observables and how they can be really evil. Fortunately we have a hero called Object.freeze(obj).

TLDR; Think about when Web Workers make sense and when not. It's tempting to run something on the background, but not always. This is the story of what I did wrong.

After more than one year of struggle with Micro M3D printer I decided to buy something bigger, faster, and more reliable. So why not original Prusa i3 MK2, which was on top of the chart (which I can not find anymore) while M3D was at the bottom.

I want to track and graph everything, which includes power consumption in my flat. But checking and regularly values and writing them down in spreadsheet is tiresome. Then I found this guide and after some modifications I've managed to collect actual power consumption, send it to Prometheus and see graphs in Grafana.

SMPlayer is powerful GUI for mplayer and for some time form mpv too. It already has UI for downloading subtitles from opensubtiles.org, but that's all you can do with online subtitles. Fortunately mpv comes to rescue with it's support for .lua scripts.

LIFX bulbs are great, but when you just need to turn them on, off or just change brightness, it can be not very comfortable, to do this simple task by app. So I decided to create much simpler way to do this. And then I came across NodeMCU, small development board similar to Arduino with integrated Wi-Fi, with cost of about $5.