HELP! Blue Yeti mic is always muted.

I recently knocked my Blue Yeti over. That’s it… it fell sideways (didn’t drop on anything, etc. – just fell sideways).

After that, it wouldn’t come out of “mute”. I tried reinstalling drivers, fiddling with Logitech G-Hub, unplugging it, plugging it in. Restarting Windows, etc. Nothing helped.

Then I found a video that explained it. You have to Factory Reset the mic. And it’s a simple process.

1) Unplug the USB.

2) Hold the two buttons (front and back) and plug it in.

3) Wait about 7-10 seconds, and the front ring will start rapidly flashing.

4) Let go and VOILA!

Simple process… worked very quickly and now I can properly mute and unmute my Yeti.

Resume Bomb: Join the Circus

Resume Bombs – those things that you should never add to your resume… but are still sometimes funny.

With all of the hoops I seem to need to jump through to do the things I want to do with this data, I may qualify for Cirque du Soleil.

Resume Bombs: All the Oddities

Resume Bombs – those things that you should never add to your resume… but are still sometimes funny.

Between us, I think we tend to get all the best oddities down pat.

Using WinMerge with Sourcetree

For work, I often use Sourcetree as my UI for dealing with BitBucket.

I’ve been using WinMerge for more years than I can count.

You can setup WinMerge as the Diff tool really easily in Sourcetree. Just pick it in the settings. :)

But, if you want to use WinMerge as your Merge tool, you need to set Custom settings.

External Diff Tool: WinMerge
Diff Command: C:\Program Files (x86)\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe
Arguments: \”$LOCAL\” \”$REMOTE\”

Merge Tool: Custom
Merge Command: C:\Program Files (x86)\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe
Arguments: -wl -wm -dl PreviousVersion -dm Base -dr Local $LOCAL $BASE $REMOTE -o $MERGED

Resume Bomb: Gamble on Thursdays

Resume Bombs – those things that you should never add to your resume… but are still sometimes funny.

Thursdays are good gambling days.  Kenny Rogers used to sing his song on Thursdays whenever he could.

Resume Bomb: Dev vs. Prod

Resume Bombs – those things that you should never add to your resume… but are still sometimes funny.

Grrr.  Works in Dev, not in Prod.

Resume Bomb: Functional Code

Resume Bombs – those things that you should never add to your resume… but are still sometimes funny.

My ability to unknowingly transition something back and forth between functional and not functional is mind-boggling.

Welcome to Git (what I learned)

Or: How do I use Git (bitbucket, etc.) – and what do these new terms mean.

I come from a background of using source code control and versioning. I originally started with Visual SourceSafe long ago. I’ve since used other tools, but predominantly using the “library method” and Microsoft tools (Team Foundation Server or TFS).

My current role… has me using git (well, bitbucket to be specific). My last role had me using that as well… but they had a different workflow then I do now.

So, I’m trying to wrap my head around the new terminology.

I’m going to document some of the “new terms” and map them to what I understand them to mean. I’ll include some links to where I did some of my research to come up with this “map”.

  • Remote – The source code living out on the server.
  • Local – your copy of the source code on your local working space.
  • Fetch – Get the latest version of the code from the remote.
  • Checkout – Make the branch the “Active” one. This means all future commits happen to this branch.
    • If you have the project open in Visual Studio when you checkout a branch, VS will usually prompt you to reload the project.

I’ll post/update more as I find new stuff.

Usability and Shopping Buggies

My wife recently celebrated a birthday. And she wanted to take a trip to IKEA. We’ve never been. And the nearest IKEA to us is 4 hours drive time.

So, we scheduled a day to go. And drove and drove.

Now, my wife was the one who wanted to go. I went along because… she’s my wife, and she asked me to go. I figured I’d just wander around the store, nod my head if asked if I liked something… and maybe hit the LEGO store on the way home. :)

Instead, I had a fun time. The store we visited has multiple levels. One floor is the “show room” and the other is the actual “shopping area”.

While shopping, my wife grabbed a shopping cart (or shopping buggy or trolley – depends on where you are from).

She commented “these drive weird” and then promptly said “here, you push the cart” and resume shopping.

I quickly realised something. The IKEA shopping carts have castors on all four wheels. Most buggies are castors in the front, and fixed wheels in the back.

While this initially was a bit weird to push, I quickly realised how versatile this is. You can push the cart from the side, the front, the back, at an angle, strafing… doesn’t matter.

As you can see here… I had a bit of fun. You can push the cart forward, do a 360 spin… and still keep walking in a straight line!

What really struck me as interesting… is these wheels. They are a bit odd shaped. And had these funny things on the sides of them. At first, I assumed the wheel shape was something to do with how smooth it rode (and it probably does). But I later found out what I believe is the why.

Inter IKEA Group | Newsroom : IKEA shopping trolley wheels

See, as you leave IKEA, you are on the 2nd floor. So you need to go down a level to get to the parking garage. You could take the elevator (and you have to if you have one of the big flat-carts used for furniture). But for shopping carts, they have a type of escalator, or moving ramp.

Ingenious IKEA shopping cart escalator | Flickr - Photo ...

And those skinny disc wheels? They fit right down into the grooves on the ramp… and the funny things on the side of the wheels? They keep your cart wheels from sinking too far down. But, it causes the cart to be 100% trapped on the moving ramp. You can’t push it… so it’s a super-safe way to move your cart down a level… and then the escalator reaches the end, the cart moves up back onto the floor, and you continue on your way.

So… big Kudo’s to IKEA for some really cool “UI” for their shopping carts.

Here is a short video on the “strafing IKEA carts” I found on YouTube.

Oh, and yes I did get to go to the LEGO store. :)

LightFactory Shortcuts and iOS

As I mentioned recently, our church just started using DMX lights for our platform lighting.

One of the bonuses from LightFactory, is the iOS app for controlling shortcuts. In LightFactory, you can set just about ANYTHING to a shortcut. And then just click the right button to do what you want. We have a Windows PC we run this on, and the Shortcut screen is just a big list of buttons. Seems to work well for what we want.

Except… most of the people who will be managing the lights… are Mobile/Tablet folks… and not PC users.

So, when I saw LightFactory had an app to launch your shortcuts for the iPad (we use a lot of iPads at church for OnSong and such).

LightFactory Shortcuts for iOS

Yup… just a big ‘ol screen of buttons. You setup your shortcuts in LightFactory and then you can use them via the iPad.

However, every time we went to start the app… it found my LightFactory software on the local network, and then hung and crashed.

According to everything I was reading, it Should Just Work ™.

After some thinking and contemplating… I had an epiphany. It’s seeing my install, but not communicating over the network properly. And then I remembered the Firewall notice when I first launched the LightFactory app.

So I checked… and noticed that the Firewall was set to block traffic on the Private connections and allow on Public. That got me thinking…

And I realized that my internet connection was Public, and it should be Private (since I was one the private church wifi. I switched the WiFi to be Private Network (which makes devices discoverable on the network).

After making that change, I restarted LightFactory and tried the iPad Shortcuts for LightFactory app again. TADA! Worked great!

So… if you are using LightFactory and the iOS app (or their Android control app) and it just seems to hang… check to make sure that your Firewall settings and Public/Private network settings are all correct. :)

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