Daisy chain cables

Nice tip: I’ve started using it for my cables; it saves on pipecleaners that I have been using to bring some order to the horror. I’m also using the earbud cord wrapping approach. Both seem effective and are quick to do.

Typing accented characters

Given I now have a client called René, it has become very clear that typing e acute isn’t easy in the default Windows 7 UK keyboard configuration. Switching to the US-International one allows useful shortcuts such as ‘e autocorrecting to é. The downside...

Mute Spotify ads / run trusted script without UAC

I have a manually triggered AutoHotKey script that gradually lowers the volume of my laptop when (e.g.) ads are on in Spotify. Sadly, to get it working in Windows 7, it has to run as administrator, and thus requires a UAC prompt, which rather defeats the purpose....

Software pricing

Don’t just roll the dice. Some sensible reflections on how to approach software pricing. Seems like a lot of people just guess.