Xen's personal web-page

My maintained projects, documentation, scripts, tips, and sometimes my thoughts... all here.

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My Paranoid Canary

When my cat died few months ago it was very rough for me to accept his death and move on, I needed something to help me cope and fill that emptiness… The first thing i’ve done is building a medium sized aquarium (fish tank) which i discovered is not that hard to do! you just need glass, glass cutter, silicone and that’s it! (Tutorial) then i started to wonder what should i put in it and i was thinking either some Goldfishs or i go with smaller fish like Betta or Molly, There’s other options as well but i settled with Guppies because they’re easy to maintain and not that aggressive, also they’re very colorful and pretty. MORE

Windows Beep

Computers back in the day used to be shipped with something called PC Internal Speakers which was mainly used by the BIOS and sometimes old software, today motherboards still have a port for them but you have to buy one now instead of getting it for free. i got mine from my old Pentium 4 PC when i was cleaning stuff i used it on my newer motherboard to see if still works and it did! but only when i turned on the PC not when i logged in to Windows. MORE

Playlist Converter++

This project started as a small script i made for myself to fix and convert my music playlists (Yes i still use local music players), Then i turn it into a small GUI tool that uses the wxWidgets library…I worked on it over the time until it became a large project, But unfortunately i had to dump wxWidgets for Qt due to building problems on GNU/Linux because i wanted it to be cross platform, Everything worked well on Windows though. It was static linking issues and a lot of CMake headaches. MORE