Windows protects EFI partitions from being deleted. This article is a quick walkthrough on how to format a USB drive with an EFI partition within Windows.

Wiring a lot of LEDs requires more power than the small WLED controller can handle, but leaving a large power supply running even when the lights are off is inefficient. This post talks about the progress on the project and how I wired in a relay to keep everything running efficiently.

The Ericsity WLED controller comes with WLED 0.13.3 preinstalled and only offers the ability to update to 0.13.4. This walks through setting up the controller for the first time and moving to 0.14.1 while maintaining the sound reactive features the controller advertises.

The Python strip, lstrip, and rstrip functions can have unexpected behavior. Even though this is documented, non-default values passed to these functions can lead to unexpected results and how Python 3.9 solved this with two new functions.

A short article on installing the Mobile Security Framework on Windows utilizing Docker and then using it to quickly analyze an APK.

Python makes it easy to modify a list while you are iterating through it's elements. This will bite you. Read on to find out how and what can be done about it.

Copying a Python list (or any mutable object) isn't as simple as setting one equal to another. Let's discuss a better way to do this.

utcnow() and utcfromtimestamp() don't know about timezones and that causes problems. Let's talk about those, how to fix the problem and their recent deprecation in Python 3.12

In Ruby you can use either and or &&. You can use or or ||. What's is the difference and what's the catch?

Comparing two numerical variables in Python can have surprising results if you aren't aware of some common gotchas. This post covers a couple of the common ones.