How to Hijack Power BI Styles to Apply Your Own
In a previous entry we saw how to use Cascading Style Sheets with Power BI’s HTML Content visual do apply dynamic visual effects outside what’s commonly expected within the platform…. Read more »
Category: cool tools
Getting the Most Out of Your Synology Networked Attached Storage: Did You Know It Can Do That?
While the initial consumer-grade NASes sold during the late 2000s/early 2010s had fairly weak CPUs and little memory, newer models priced in the $200-$500 range from about 2019 forward are… Read more »
How To Use Live Connection Reports Across Workspaces with #PowerBI
Fulfilling a long-standing request to make it easier to administrate Power BI content, it is now possible to use a dataset from one app workspace as the source for a… Read more »
Customizing Gmail & Gsuite for Productivity
As an avid Inbox Zero practitioner who likes to find information very quickly, I’ve tinkered quite a bit with my Gmail and Gdrive setup. Here’s what I currently use:
Cloud Toolbox: There’s A Micro-SaaS For That
Here are a few tools that I was surprised even existed when I first ran into them because they address pretty niche needs, but it’s awesome that they do. I… Read more »
How to Watch Youtube in a Chromeless Browser Window
I wanted to have Bloomberg TV’s Youtube stream in a minimalist window and first tried the /embed/ trick, but publishers can disable their Youtube videos to work outside of youtube.com… Read more »
Mount, Backup, Sync: Flexible Cloud Storage Options for Windows Users
Cloud storage for consumers and small businesses (i.e. not enterprise) has “traditionally” been associated with the concept of syncing a dedicated local folder with the cloud, because it’s the way… Read more »
Combine PhpStorm with Browser Dev Tools on Windows For Top Productivity
Following my entries on PhpStorm and Docker, here are my notes on the state of browser dev tools. When working on a website, especially if you’re doing full-stack work that… Read more »
Robots Everywhere: Orchard Edition
You may think apple picking is the sort of inexpensive yet complex enough labor that it’s not worth automating. You’d be wrong. Abundant Robotics’ prototype is still slow but you can… Read more »
How to Find & Open Any File In a Jiffy with Launchy + Everything + Dopus
Here’s a quick animated gif showing how I use Launchy to send scoped searches to Everything, leading to opening folders in Directory Opus or files in their associated app.