Blog de Joe Freeman

Creating a cross-platform app icon for Flutter can be easy.  Easy enough that it is embarrassing how long I looked away from adding app icons to my apps. Creating an app icon across platforms is especially true if you avoid implementing many platform-specific customizations. You can convert a single PNG image into all the formats needed for Flutter Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, and Web launcher icons using just one 1000x1000 pixel icon and  flutter_launcher_icons. Caveat This walkthrough does not take into account different icons for light and dark This does not have any Apple Glass handling Create an app icon Create a 1000x1000 pixel icon using the tool of your choice.  The icon at the top of the blog was created for f s-game-score using appicons.ai. I used  https://appicons.ai , which I found via Reddit Mac users may be able to use something like Apple Icon Composer Download the icon created in the step above. It should be a 1000x1000 PNG file. Copy the icon t...

The  asustor AS5402T  is a NAS  appliance  that supports two (2) 3.5" drives and four (4) NVMe drives.  I wanted to run some Docker and Home Automation  on my AS5402T NAS so that I didn't have to maintain additional machines.  The AS5402T has two SODIMM slots that are accessible without any tools. It comes standard with a single upgradable 4GB SODIMM.  Upgrading from 4GB to 32GB was a simple, toolless operation. Getting Access Getting access to the memory slots Power off the unit. Unplug the unit from the wall outlet. Remove the 3.5" disks. Remember which slot each drive was in. You should be able to see the SODIMM slot by looking in through the disk drive opening.  The memory modules are visible at the bottom.  See the following images I swapped the RAM and reinserted the drives before powering up. Original Configuration The unit accepts DDR3 3200MHz SODIMM.  Two CRUCIAL 16GB DDR3 1600 SODIMM The RAM modules cost me about $45 each ...