David Schlachter

Can't figure out how to get the chain guard off?

Installing personal finance manager Firefly III on FreeBSD.

Decompiling to understand how a CD-check was implemented in an old program.

My approach to managing and creating repeating tasks using a cron scheduler in Todoist.

Reviews of dynamo-powered bike lights that I've tried.

My thoughts on the University of Ottawa Biotech program: careers, job prospects — is it worth it?

How much surface area is occupied by cars in Montreal?

HomePod minis having trouble connecting with a Bell GigaHub?

Comparison of growth and losses in Canadian religious groups in the 2011 and 2021 census.

Self-hosted personal finance manager Firefly III budgets monthly, whereas I budget annually.

Configure automatic updates of Cloudflare DNS records using ddclient.

Analysis and fix for an issue with songs stopping and looping in self-hosted music streaming software koel.

Main findings from my Masters research: how models of fluid absorption into powder beds can better predict the behaviour of polymeric solutions.

Disable Thunderbolt to enable Device Encryption in Windows 11.

The MHA's list of their "Best Book" award winners only lists authors, not the book titles.

Tool to help understand relationships between custom struct types in large Go projects.

Use the OBS Virtual Camera on FreeBSD using webcamd.

Set up samba on FreeBSD so that macOS clients can search file shares with Spotlight.

Short quiz to test recognition of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text.

Use the EFI shell to boot a newly installed Linux guest in bhyve.

Use iwmbtfw to set up Bluetooth on FreeBSD with recent Intel cards.

One of my favourite desserts!

Review of pre-print manuscripts on remote instruction since January 2020.

Summary of my Masters research at the 2020 Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference.

Self-hosted budgeting software firefly-iii doesn't have an email reports feature.

Everything I know about my great-great-great grandparents Martin Schlachter and Justina Tschosick.

Support for videoconferencing platforms, like Zoom, Skype, and Teams, on FreeBSD.

Hardware support and configuration for USB audio devices, such as the Behringer UMC22 sound card, on FreeBSD.

How to use your webcam with Chrome and Firefox in FreeBSD

Mysteriously failed backups can sometimes be traced to filename text encoding issues.

Replicate the behaviour of intel-backlight in acpi_video on FreeBSD by customizing the brightness adjustment increments.

FreeBSD drivers for Intel 8265 are limited to 802.11g speeds.

Background and review of 2019 paper by Yan et al: "Solution processable liquid metal nanodroplets by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization" (Nature Nanotechnology).

Compatibility of FreeBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad T480, notes and fixes (HiDPI, Trackpad, camera, etc).

ICC profiles and colour calibration, with example scans, for Canon MP480 and CanoScan LiDE 700F scanners.

Recordings by jazz band The Cangelosi Cards are hard to find!

Use a DOS emulator on macOS to expand an SZDD archive created with MS-DOS COMPRESS.EXE

Chrome extension to adjust left-right balance and volume of tabs.

Coloured noise generator (white noise, pink noise, etc) for the web, inspired by the Android app ChromaDoze.

Advice for new DJs: choose music that both you and your audience love.

Ever wonder about mysterious subdomain requests on FreeDNS?

System Profiler reports a 400 MHz processor in a model that only came in 233, 266, and 300 MHz configurations.

Turns out only one FreeBSD jail per network interface can run Avahi at the same time.

How to install 1Password 7 stand-alone version on your iPad or iPhone, without a subscription.

Ten easily-applied ideas taken from the literature on teaching in engineering.

Full- and part-time French classes in Montreal for about $50 per semester?

Tool to calculate amounts reported by a landlord for a rent increase decision from Quebec’s Régie du logement.

Undergraduate thesis for my Honours BSc in Biochemistry from uOttawa.

Many stories from Mexico in this family website recovered from an old hard-drive.

Things I look for when choosing or improving a bicycle.