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how to use saturation and brightness property of colors to create different shades of a color for a UI. Also explains why some shades are dull vs some look vibrant -> https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/color-in-ui-design-a-practical-framework-e18cacd97f9e. TLDR: more brightness and less saturation = vibrant. More saturation and less brightness = dull

convert mp4 to gif on linux (ubuntu 18.04). ffmpeg -i firefox.mp4 firfox.gif (ffmpeg 3.4.4 )

screen record via adb. adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/firefox.mp4 CTRL+C to exit after recording.

screen record via adb. 1. adb shell 2. screenrecord /sdcard/firefox.mp4 3. CTRL+C to exit after recording.

A nifty twitter card previewer for static pages https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

Nifty tool to convert videos into gifs https://github.com/lukechilds/gifgen

can turn your Raspberry Pi into Wifi hotspot using https://github.com/harryallerston/RPI-Wireless-Hotspot and take advantage of Pi-hole as network wide adblocker without any change in other devices.

can take screenshot of FireTV via adb using the command adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/Download/settings-adb-debugging.png

can take screenshot of FireTV via adb using the command adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/Download/settings-adb-debugging.png

blocking browser call to https://login.deutschebank.co.in/corp/L001/consumer/theme/new_style_HW.css makes Deutsche Bank website load faster