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Fragile X syndrome has always been a part of my family’s story. My brother lives with Fragile X, and I’ve seen firsthand both the challenges and the resilience that come with it. For many years, hope for a true treatment, or even a cure, felt out of reach. But recently, I had the privilege of … Read more
In the technology world, few topics generate as much excitement as vibe coding. This emerging trend involves AI tools generating code directly from natural language, usually by prompting. You’ve likely heard of popular AI tools like Claude Sonnet or DeepSeek, but can this approach truly become mainstream? I began my career as a PHP programmer. Although it’s been over two decades since I … Read more
Introduction This article will explain how you can reduce the rainbow effect with subtitles. The rainbow effect occurs in some DLP (Digital Light Processing) projectors, and it’s a visual artifact that can be very noticeable to some people. DLP and Laser projectors utilize a technology known as Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) to create images by … Read more
There has been significant debate regarding the efficacy of ReFS (Resilient File System) integrity streams and their ability to detect and repair “bit rot” or corrupted data. Specifically, I wanted to see how ReFS behaves when storage is presented in different ways to a Virtual Machine (VM). To ground this test, I referenced several discussions … Read more
Rationale I’ve been using the MSI B450 Pro Carbon as my motherboard for a long time. It came with a very neat audio feature, called Nahimic Sound Sharing. Windows, by default, will only output audio to a single device. So, if you have two people trying to listen to music with their own headphones, you … Read more
WARNING: Some people reported bricked disks with this process, read this thread carefully before proceeding. If you own a Seagate Exos (in my case, X16), the drive usually comes pre-formatted with 512E sectors, but does support 4KN Advanced format. While the performance advancements of this conversion are unproven, I thought I’d do it just for … Read more
NOTE: Chris Hill wrote a very detailed post on Reddit with more information on ReFS with integrity streams, and also created a pretty impressive automated PowerShell script. His results are very concerning, and I’d advise to not trust ReFS until further notice. I will be redoing my testing and will update the post once we … Read more
Introduction This post will show you how to convert NVME to 4KN Advanced Format, as by default the vast majority of NVME SSDs will ship with logical sectors set to 512 bytes. In my previous post I discussed performance differences between 512 vs 4096 bytes sector format, and showed that at least as far as … Read more
On this blog post I compare 512E vs 4KN Performance on NVME SSDs. I have been using 4K native sector size on my Exos disks, and recently came across a way to convert NVME SSDs to run in native 4K sector size as well. If you have a Sabrent drive, there is an easy way … Read more
Introduction A large concern with 3D printing indoors is the printer particulate emissions, especially considering how harmful these can be. The SDS011 is an air quality sensor that can be used to monitor PM2.5 and PM10 levels. Since I have used it quite successfully to monitor the forest fires around my home in British Columbia, … Read more