Beware, fraudsters: Chrono Informatique

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Dae

I’ve been recently scammed by a French e-shop called Chrono Informatique (chrono-informatique.com) from Agen, France. They sold me a dead power supply for Synology NAS 2413+ and refused to refund after I sent it back, claiming that I opened and damaged it myself. Continue reading →

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A brief note on BizonBox 2 + GTX 980

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Dae

BizonBox is a Thunderbolt enclosure for PCIe videocards, assembled by Russian company Bizon specialising in selling Hackintoshes and hardware upgrades for Macs. I had a chance to get my hands on one of these devices. Continue reading →

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On macOS Sierra support and the future of SmoothMouse

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Dae

⚠️ 2023 update: finally, macOS Sonoma has an option to disable pointer acceleration ⚠️

Long story short. Continue reading →

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XQuartz.pkg stalls at “verifying” in El Capitan

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Dae

I don’t know why OS X El Capitan sometimes fails to verify XQuartz 2.7.9 package (the process just gets stuck despite “Allow apps downloaded from anywhere” on “Enabled”). What I know, however, is that you can still install it via Terminal as easy as:
sudo installer -pkg ~/Desktop/XQuartz.pkg -target /

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SmoothMouse does not work in macOS Sierra

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Dae

Do not install macOS Sierra if your productivity depends on SmoothMouse, currently it  does not work on it. We’ll be investigating the problem soon. Update: sorry, we won’t support Sierra.

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Run Django dev server with Gulp

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Dae

This is basically an extract from this excellent article by Caktus Group’s Calvin Spealman. Continue reading →

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About the author

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Dae

My name is Eugene, but on the Internet I often go by Dae. Welcome to my personal technical blog.

I’m an IT professional, web developer, and producer/investor who works with small teams and SMEs in Europe in various roles involving IT, management, marketing, and design. I’m passionate about helping small businesses achieve big goals with the help of cost-efficient and non-bloated technology.

My IT company: https://dae.io/
Connect with me on LinkedIn

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Django: add i18n template tag to built-ins

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Dae

Django 1.9 allows you to load template tags globally, i.e. without having to include {% load %} statements at the top of each template. The new option is called builtins and you can set it in your settings.py like so (in the example, I’m loading the i18n tag library). Continue reading →

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librsvg 2.40.11 breaks resizing in rsvg-convert

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Dae

rsvg-convert 2.40.11 calculates SVG bounds incorrectly resulting in an empty or cropped image. (See my comment in Homebrew repository and the bug report).  Continue reading →

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Magnific Popup + HTML5 History API (demo)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Dae

A demo of Magnific Popup with unique URLs and browser Back/Forward button support, using HTML5 History API via History.js. GitHub.

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