Category: Code

Amazon Arbitrage Flips Made Easy

It certainly sounds a bit of a mouthful and it’s a huge thing if you’re involved in the Amazon selling space, I’ve immersed myself in this space for a year and this is just one of the tools I built.

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Blink Home scheduling Zones

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The Blink home security cameras are a great little piece of kit, relatively cheap, no storage costs and no wiring requirements (with an alleged two year battery life), there’s a lot to like about them.

However… There is a flaw that has seen customers return these smart little units – you can’t zone them. For example you may have one camera on the front door which you want armed at all times and one on the back garden that you don’t want armed during the day because children are playing there.

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Concatenating videos with FFMpeg

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If you end up here, you’re either:

  • Tearing your hair out with FFMpeg, trying to do something clever and cursing – a lot!! 
  • Or you’ve followed my saga of the last few days on Twitter.
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Tracking runners without draining their phone battery

Running a GPS unit on a phone drains your battery quickly with all the work it has to do (measurement reports, transmission alongside your normal apps), when you are going to be running for a LONG time you need to think outside the box!

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Laravel join overwriting field names

It’s a really common thing to do with databases, join a tables with an other table, but when you have two models that have a field with the same name by default one will overwrite the other!

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Tinkering the cPanel Backup System

The backup system in cPanel doesn’t do exactly what we want, it does the job pretty well but you can’t set schedules of who wants daily backups and who wants weekly and still handle all the retentions that some hosts need.

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