Soft & Hardware Archives - Jay Sharp https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/ Digital Product Development & Engineering in Europe & Hong Kong Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:55:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://sharpi.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/fav2-1.png Soft & Hardware Archives - Jay Sharp https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/ 32 32 Making an Android to SMS to SMTP App in a few hours. https://sharpi.sh/posts/ai/android-to-sms-to-smtp-app/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=android-to-sms-to-smtp-app Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:10:17 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2529 During a meeting I was only half needed in, I ended up spinning up a small Android app for sending SMS to email over SMTP mostly with Gemini 3. That worked for a while, then Gemini 3 Pro started going into full meltdown mode and taking Visual Studio Code down with it. At that point […]

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]]> How to fix no pano or photo options on Mavic 2 Zoom, DJI Smart Controller https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/fix-no-pano-photo-options-dji-mavic-2-zoom-dji-smart-controller/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fix-no-pano-photo-options-dji-mavic-2-zoom-dji-smart-controller Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:10:52 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2438 TLDR You can 100% shoot 3D pano’s with the Mavic Zoom 2 and the  DJI smart controller, the options may be hidden due to an issue with the SD card. Make sure you are on “P” flight mode and trial and error fiddling formatting or changing the SD Card until it works. Problem This guide […]

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]]> My Dev toolkit 2024 https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/my-dev-toolkit-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-dev-toolkit-2024 Sat, 25 Jan 2025 05:35:41 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2097 A review of what I ended up using regularly this year. This will get updated with why and links at some point. Graphic, UI Design and Video Davinci Resolve 18 Figma Low Code Webflow Relume.io CRM WordPress Video Online tools and Multimedia I love PDF remove.bg Unsplash Freepik Pexels Convert.io Perplexity.ai Code GitHub NextJS V0 […]

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]]> How to cancel a Davinci Resolve cloud Subscription October 2024 https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/how-to-cancel-a-davinci-resolve-subscription-october-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-cancel-a-davinci-resolve-subscription-october-2024 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 07:02:43 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2185 A guide on how to cancel a Davinci Resolve cloud Subscription. Perhaps the cover image is a little extreme, but it accurately reflects the frustration I feel when companies apply unscrupulous methods to retaining SaaS subscriptions. This has to be one of the most egregious examples I’ve ever come across. Blackmagic really try to make […]

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]]> Are Major OS updates really worth it? https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/are-major-os-updates-really-worth-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-major-os-updates-really-worth-it Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:48:37 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=2171 Warning:  This post is more of a vent than anything useful. I’ve always been of the opinion that Major updates to operating systems only introduce more bloatware, bugs, reset your privacy settings, use more HDD space and RAM, CPU and slow things down. We’ll today that long held belief was vindicated. Normally I only enable […]

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]]> My Dev Toolkit 2023 https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/my-dev-toolkit-2023/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-dev-toolkit-2023 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:48:30 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=1990 It’s that random time of the year when I list the tools I’ve been enjoying. Browser 1 Brave 2 Opera 3 Firefox IDE VS Code Sublime Text Design Figma Noun Project Lucide icons (https://lucide.dev/) Dev tools, Devops CI/CD Supabase Render.com Vercel Gitlab and Bitbucket are out Github is in MAMP Fork (client for Git) Cloudflare […]

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]]> Finding a good Postgres Visual Query Builder for Mac https://sharpi.sh/posts/web-development/finding-a-good-postgres-visual-query-builder-for-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finding-a-good-postgres-visual-query-builder-for-mac Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:41:42 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=1939 Any tool, whether free or paid, that can reduce headache and speed up development is money well spent. With a fairly complex multi table and condition query to write in a format suitable for Supabase Javascript Client Library it seemed logical to invest the time finding a Client that worked. I remember the days of […]

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]]> I discovered Sendinblue leaked their rebrand as Brevo https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/sendinblue-brevo-rebrand/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sendinblue-brevo-rebrand Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:17:37 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=1803 I kept this silent at the time. The Head of Global Brand contacted me to say that they had been working on this project for a year and kindly asked me to delete the tweet. That feeling when the lead dev scrolls through commits asking Who merged that PR? Sacrebleu! 😂 It seems reasonable to […]

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]]> Heres why you Can’t add Atlassian Marketplace Apps to Confluence Cloud https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/heres-why-you-cant-add-atlassian-marketplace-apps-to-confluence-cloud/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-why-you-cant-add-atlassian-marketplace-apps-to-confluence-cloud Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:49:29 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=1707 TLDR; The new billing system Atlassian released for Atlassian Cloud doesn’t support the Marketplace and wont be available for several weeks from the start of December 2022. Issue When trying to add Diagrams.net a free marketplace extension to Confluence the following error is displayed after attempting to add the extension: We ran into a little […]

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]]> Workspace: Get emails delivered to any prefix on your custom domain https://sharpi.sh/posts/software-hardware/workspace-get-emails-delivered-to-any-prefix-on-your-custom-domain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=workspace-get-emails-delivered-to-any-prefix-on-your-custom-domain Sat, 15 Oct 2022 17:59:35 +0000 https://sharpi.sh/?p=1612 This is how to receive emails sent to any email prefix at your custom domain using Google Workspace with one user. Eg. “I want to receive anything sent to this domain, like a wildcard prefix *@example.com” So example@example.com, foo@example.com or misspellings of your actual prefix will be sent to your main inbox, and  with some […]

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