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Just a bunch of un-related findings that may help when creating Windows and macOS VMs using VirtualBox. ...

On my new Windows 10 desktop I wanted an on-screen display (OSD) of system performance overlay while gaming - similar those benchmarking videos one finds on YouTube. While I don’t overclock my CPU or GPU, I still do want to know the utilization and temperatures, as these give me a hint as to whether the system is thermal throttled or bottlenecked. ...

I found that Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.1 was running very slowly on my brand new Windows 10 PC. Initially I thought it was to do with VirtualBox, e.g. insufficient cores or memory, the display controller (VBoxSVGA), insufficient video memory, etc. And then I thought it might be an AMD thing, so had a look at BIOS, e.g. nested AMD-V, etc. ...

We will remember 2020 for all the wrong reasons, but on a lighter note, 2020 has been quite the year… for silicon! The incredible performance of Apple’s M1 and A14 (@ 5m). AMD crushing Intel with its Ryzen 5000 series CPUs (@ 7nm). The neck-and-neck race between the AMD Radeon (@ 7nm) and Nvidia RTX. The launch of next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony. ...

I just got myself a new desktop PC! I am not much of a Windows user, but am looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077! I have never built a PC before, so I did the research and learnt a lot. Here is what I bought and why. ...

Here is a quick iOS Shortcut to join Cisco WebEx personal rooms by email name. In my organization, once logged in to Cisco WebEx, we can join a colleague’s personal meeting room just by his or her email name. Here is a shortcut to either: Launch WebEx for the contact from the Contacts App share sheet, Or just run the shortcut to select email to launch WebEx. ...

I use macOS spaces (virtual desktops) to arrange the various apps I frequently use. I have one space setup with two Firefox windows, in fullscreen Split View mode. But by default, Firefox windows are not really “full screen” for me, in that the tabs, toolbar and bookmarks bar will still be displayed. Here is my workaround to force the browser to full screen. ...

I’m always eager to learn about the open source tools or frameworks developers use. I found this list a good “read” :P ...

The Apache and PHP bundled with macOS Catalina 10.15 does not include the PHP ZIP extension. Grav (specifically, the Problems Plugin) detects this issue, and Grav will not run! Here is a workaround. ...

Here is how to create a Docker container on macOS to “compile” Sass stylesheets to CSS. In my case, I wanted to (re)compile my Bulma-based theme with the latest version 0.9.0 with my variable overrides. ...