Independent Seattle based mobile, web and database developer. https://beej126.github.io/ Project Wanting to support two HDDs tied to an old HighPoint RocketRAID 620 controller that’s been running solid for 15 years… started with 2TB in simple RAID1, then 4TB, and currently 8TB with 1/4 remaining… good to see 16TB drives dipping into $400 range. Falcon’s stock bracket holds one 3.5”... Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/two-fragbox-hdds/ https://beej126.github.io/two-fragbox-hdds/ GitHub Desktop offers a really convenient UI for squashing commits in a nutshell, you might want to squash when you make a lot of little edits to things like README.MD and you want that to all look like one clean save event in the commit history =) easy steps: load... Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://beej126.github.io/github-release/ https://beej126.github.io/github-release/ Grafting an 8BitDo Zero 2 onto a Wico Boss Basically looking to bluetooth enable my favorite old school Wico Boss joystick from early-90’s Amiga youth days =) Points of interest: speaking of Amiga games, Future Tank gets the most reps =) tip: make sure you find the version that doesn’t... Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://beej126.github.io/blue-boss/ https://beej126.github.io/blue-boss/ posted here: https://www.telerik.com/forums/data-grid-onchangeitem-griditemchangeevent—why-no-dataindex Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/enhancing-kendoreact/ https://beej126.github.io/enhancing-kendoreact/ The bike is a Rad Power, Rad Mini 4 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/sax-ee-bike/ https://beej126.github.io/sax-ee-bike/ Nice! javascript now has built in one liner for copy & update array item by index Array.with() and a few other non-mutating companions like toSpliced, toSorted sure, the array spread syntax already made it pretty easy but it’s just cool to see super common patterns get this kind of TLC... Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/ES2023-array-copy-change-methods/ https://beej126.github.io/ES2023-array-copy-change-methods/ Bottom line up front, just like other reviewers have said, my controller went from REAL BAD jitter on the right stick to absolute ZERO drift, pegging very very close to center w/o any tuning… super happy with the result! (posted here) I bricked two!! other PS5 controllers a few months... Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/Gen2-GuliKit-TMR-PS4-joystick-drift-fix/ https://beej126.github.io/Gen2-GuliKit-TMR-PS4-joystick-drift-fix/ at least on my revision of the case, the very top bay for 5¼” drives was fastened with several rivets… i counted: 8 attaching it to the front panel 2 to the mobo back plate panel 4 on the top and lastly 2 more if you want to separate the... Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/front-mount-240mm-radiator-in-cooler-master-storm-scout-2.mdf/ https://beej126.github.io/front-mount-240mm-radiator-in-cooler-master-storm-scout-2.mdf/ Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/Slipstreaming-Tools-into-Windows-Sandbox/ https://beej126.github.io/Slipstreaming-Tools-into-Windows-Sandbox/ Amazes me how far everything has evolved here’s my first example, a @react-pdf sample project: https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-pdf-demo2?file=src%2Findex.js Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/StackBlitz-WebContainers/ https://beej126.github.io/StackBlitz-WebContainers/ Geek Crush Origin Story Back around 2002 (yes ‘02 not ‘20), I still remember sitting in the company lunch room where I worked on the south side of Chicago, casually browsing the back ads section of an InfoWorld when I saw this barebones kit they were calling the “gBox”. I... Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:19:42 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/gBox-resurrected/ https://beej126.github.io/gBox-resurrected/ Intro I am admitedly much longer time spent on SQL Server and just recently having a couple years on Oracle 11g… All that T-SQL syntax experience, especially after SQL Server 2005 really gave us a lot of power, sets basic expectations on what can be readily accomplished. Oracle Negatives Common... Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:19:42 -0500 https://beej126.github.io/Oracle-vs-SQL-Server/ https://beej126.github.io/Oracle-vs-SQL-Server/ this is a great spin on Sudo for Windows. it goes to some length to keep the input/output inside the current console - versus most other sudo approaches that simply launch the command in another elevated console window. it pulls this off by clever trick of launching a hidden elevated... Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:53:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/self-escalating-batch/ https://beej126.github.io/self-escalating-batch/ Background: one day i accidentally deleted my self hosted wordpress blog… i had backups of the posts but off went all my images in a brutal flash… this script pulls what was still out there on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:31:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/wayback-image-grabber/ https://beej126.github.io/wayback-image-grabber/ The gist here is leveraging a hidden checkbox to maintain expand/collapse state and css :before {content: "xyz" } to add the expand/collapse widget which keeps the additional markup minimal. Markdown compatible :) <p></p><input type="checkbox" class="expander"> #### Expandified Heading * bullet * bullet * <input type="checkbox" class="expander"><i>another expander</i> * nested content... Sun, 03 Jun 2018 17:16:00 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/Pure-CSS-Expander/ https://beej126.github.io/Pure-CSS-Expander/ I was envious of how the mac auto extracts zips and took a shot at doing that via powershell script on windows Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:12:37 -0500 https://beej126.github.io/windows-file-explorer-auto-extract-zips-like-mac-finder/ https://beej126.github.io/windows-file-explorer-auto-extract-zips-like-mac-finder/ Oracle Provider for OLE DB I initially found a free generic database object browser tool called Oracle Maestro… i actually wound up landing on a much better tool, linked below, but getting Maestro to work walked me through some troubleshooting which would come up for anything requiring OLEDB connectivity Maestro... Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:56:17 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/oracle-data-access-components-development-installation-tips/ https://beej126.github.io/oracle-data-access-components-development-installation-tips/ Yeah I actually said Oracle Forms, that product from the 90’s… as one might guess, i happen to be on a legacy conversion project at work… There’s some rough edges getting these old bits to install and run that i wanted to capture… Background my project is tied to the... Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:28:41 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/oracle-forms-11g-development-installation-tips/ https://beej126.github.io/oracle-forms-11g-development-installation-tips/ This is an oldie but goody… the gist is that even latest Windows 10 still ships with working IExpress.exe which is a self extracting exe builder! Who knew?! In my case, very handy for bundling a batch file and it’s dependencies into a single exe for a buddy. For the... Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:21:25 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/easy-native-windows-self-extracting-exe-builder-sfx/ https://beej126.github.io/easy-native-windows-self-extracting-exe-builder-sfx/ i’m basically following this guide, while humbly attempting to trim down to bare necessity and re-align configs with crucial bits that’ve shifted since then… and likely to continue shifting 😐 install Node… there’s many ways but their setup.exe is handy… this includes npm from cmd.exe: npm install -g typescript (-g... Sat, 08 Jul 2017 01:58:22 -0400 https://beej126.github.io/vs-code-typescript-bare-metal-new-project/ https://beej126.github.io/vs-code-typescript-bare-metal-new-project/