Storing my tools

Ever since we moved into a new apartment (one without basement or an extra room, to store bulky stuff you don't need often) earlier this year, my tools and miscellaneous DIY–consumables have been sitting in a transparent IKEA box in our living room. It was not a very visually pleasing solution, to say the least. So I started looking for cheap, old tool cabinets, preferrable one with wheels online.

After a couple of months with a few failed attempts where I actually found one that I liked but the sale never happened (whats up with private sellers being so uncommitted and flimsy?), last weekend we finally rented a car and drove to Schönefeld to buy the most beautiful tool cabinet I've ever laid eyes on 😍

It's about 30% bigger than what I was aiming for, turns out that's a good thing because I greatly underestimated the amount of tools & misc tool-related stuff I own. Also there's some room for expansion.

I spent the rest of the weekend cleaning, removing rust, treating and refurbishing the wood. Also I got some very simple & cheap wooden boxes from modulor, that I fitted with some feet so they can be stacked & interlocked with each other.

All my tools are out of sight & I now have workbench where I can build stuff.

10/10

How to post to mastodon automatically from an RSS Feed

There are countless plugins and integrations for autoposting stuff to Twitter, but I could not find a single service that supports mastodon yet, luckily you can set up autoposting of your RSS feed items to mastodon pretty easily yourself!

1. Create an application on your mastodon instance

This might differ from instance to instance.
For mastodon.social you can get there by clicking "Preferences > Development > Your applications" or click here.

Create a new App & Name it. You don't need to fill in the "Redirect URI".

Set the scopes accordingly. We only need our app to have permission post new toots, so check "write:statuses" and uncheck everything else.

Save your application and note down the access token that is displayed at the top of the application's settings screen.

2. Set up your Service of choice

There are several services that allow you to run tasks and link different webservices, I personally like to use Zapier or sometimes IFTTT.

I'll go through the steps required for Zapier in this Article, if you need help setting up some other service, let me know and I'll add it to this guide.

2.1 Zapier

2.1.1 Set up Trigger

As a Trigger, choose "RSS by Zapier" and select "New Item in Feed".
In the following step input your feed URL.
Run the test! It should look something like this:

2.1.2 Set up Action

As an action choose "Webhooks by Zapier" and select "POST"

Enter this

https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses?access_token=123453442341234

as the URL, replace "123453442341234" by the access token for your application you got in step 1. of this guide.

In the Data section enter "status" as key and use the editor to pull in items from your feed, format the status as you like. Mine looks like this:

Leave the rest of the fields with their default settings.
Continue and test. The test will create a new, public toot on your mastodon account.
Now save and activate your Zap.

That's it!

Whenever there's a new item in your RSS feed, Zapier will create a post on your mastodon account, like this:

Device Orientation Events 👌

So Device Orientation Events are pretty neat. We came up with this prototype last night while working on a UI refresh for controller.wtf the transforms are mapped to the physical orientation of your device.

sweeter graphics in no mans sky (or any other game)

Since the re-release of No Man's Sky dubbed "No Man's Sky: NEXT", I've been HOOKED. You can watch us play on Kim's twitch channel!

In my opinion the game does still not offer all that much variety gameplay wise, it is pretty though.

Whenever I saw screenshots on reddit, I couldn't help myself but think that other people's games looked better than mine, which was weird because I own a decently spec'd PC. Turns out they just looked better, because I never looked at the images in full resolution but at downscaled thumbnails.

If only you could achieve that same level of visual crispness while playing the game!

Dynamic Super Resolution to the rescue!

Turns out, you can use the DSR Feature of the Nvida Control Panel to introduce a new, virtual resolution and achieve exactly that effect!

1. right click on your desktop
2. click on "open Nvidia Control Panel"
3. select "Manage 3D Settings" in the Sidebar
4. make sure you have the "Global Settings" tab selected
5. set the DSR-Factors setting to the desired factor

I set mine to a factor of 1.5 on a GTX1060.

The native resolution of my screen is 2560x1440, if you multiply each side by factor 1.5, you get a new resolution of 3840x2160.

Running the game at a higher resolution, of course, means that your graphics card has to do more work, so aditionally I tweaked a few settings in game, to gain some more of those sweet FPS.

There are, some jagged edges because of the disabled AA, but honestly I barely notice that, the resolution downsampling helps to mitigate that as well, I think.

Of course this technique is not limited to NMS and will work on other games as well, some even provide this out of the box, the setting is called "3D Resolution Scale" most of the time.