• Goodbye Disqus

    I’ve been using Disqus as the commenting system on this website for years now. It was convenient and did the job… until it wasn’t. 😅 Recently, Disqus decided to start adding ads to their free tier. Here is the email I received: Hi there, You’re currently on our free Disqus...

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  • Prevent Logitech GHUB to scan dirs and delete auto-detected profiles

    Before taking any action, quit the Logitech G HUB application. Go to %ProgramFiles%/LGHUB/data Backup applications.json file (i.e. rename applications.json to applications.json.bk) Open applications.json with your favorite text editor Replace the whole file with: { "applications": [] } Save the file (applications.json) You can revert this change back at any time...

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  • Prevent OpenVPN to start automatically on Mac

    I had a bit of struggle to disable OpenVPN from launching automatically at boot on macOS. It doesn’t seem to have any option / checkbox in the softwareto disable launch at boot, so here what I did: 1) Unload OpenVPN daemon using launchctl: sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.openvpn.plist 2) Remove OpenVPN...

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  • Common apps I'm using on Mac (2021)

    Note: I also have a post explaining how I customized my keyboard with Karabiner for a smooth Linux -> Mac transition. Link: https://www.alfredapp.com/ Well known macOS app that allows quick search and easy hotkeys setup on your Mac. An handy app to customize the way you start your applications or...

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  • Tools for Elastic product's quick testing

    I very often need to test new Elastic products with different versions. Downloading the distributions everytime then configure manually every part could be cumbersome and quite repetitive. Of course, pulling docker images or use Terraform are viable options, but sometimes you might be looking for a quick setup. For this...

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  • Fix Project Diablo 2 glide3x.dll issue

    Starting from Season 3 - Domination, this fix won’t work anymore as dsound.dll will prevent you to play online (leading to a message: Wrong game version and disconnect you from the game). Recently I started to play Project Diablo 2 and started to get the following error while closing the...

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  • Yet another Mac bluetooth interference with Wi-Fi

    Update March 22, 2020: I saw that the following command could help in some cases: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.airport.bt.plist bluetoothCoexMgmt Hybrid (Explanation on Stackoverflow) I thought I was done with this from my previous post about it. However it didn’t last long and the problem re-appeared later. It was not...

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  • Mon expérience avec Shadow

    © Shadow by Blade C’est un article que je tenais à faire depuis un moment malheureusement par manque de temps je n’ai pas pu le rédiger plus tôt. Je suis rentré en France dernièrement pour une durée de trois semaines environ. Généralement, j’emmène toujours un laptop avec moi quand je...

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  • WSL / Ubuntu / ZSH and Hyper Terminal

    I’ve been using Windows Subsystem for Linux for quite a long now. What is Windows Subsystem for Linux? It’s basically to run a Linux environment in Windows OS Even if it wasn’t really stable at the beginning, a lot of improvements have been made. At work I have quite a...

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  • Deux photographes découvert récemment

    Le premier photographe que je voudrais vous présenter s’appelle Tatsuo Suzuki, photographe japonais né à Tokyo. Il a commencé la photographie en 2008, son thème est : « les rues de Tokyo ». Le noir & blanc, l’émotion à travers le visage des gens, c’est ce qui rend de mon point de...

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  • Windows 10: Applications not indexed properly

    Since I upgraded to Windows 10 I’m struggling to have my installed applications indexed in Start Menu. With applications installed via an installer it works fine but if I extract a program from an archive (like .zip or whatever) and place it manually to my Programs directory it’s not indexed....

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