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Labels Printing Off-Center? Calibrate the Print Offset Once
Hardware

Labels Printing Off-Center? Calibrate the Print Offset Once

After getting the label printer to fire its printhead, the next problem was that the text missed the sticker. I stopped guessing and printed rulers and corner markers to measure it, then clearly separated paper size, printable area, and offset into three distinct values.

#printer#kotlin#android#hardware
9 min read·25 Oct
Images Fail on Mobile in Pages Hidden with display:none
Web

Images Fail on Mobile in Pages Hidden with display:none

A site switches pages using display:none, but opening another page on mobile leaves blank black images, even though the files return 200 and both fetch and new Image succeed. The culprit is the IntersectionObserver behind loading=lazy not firing when the page changes from none to block, and simply setting loading=eager is still not enough.

#javascript#css#mobile-dev#web-performance
9 min read·17 Oct
Mapping a Building by Phone and Finding True North with GNSS
AI

Mapping a Building by Phone and Finding True North with GNSS

ARCore gives room-corner coordinates in meters accurately enough to use, but its world frame has an unknown orientation, so the resulting plan is always rotated by some angle. The fix is to collect pairs of (AR position, GNSS reading) while working, then fit a rotation using weighted 2D Kabsch, with weights based on each fix's accuracy, to find both north and the origin's coordinates.

#gis#geospatial#mapping#android
10 min read·2 Oct
Android Dev on MIUI/HyperOS — adb Traps on Windows
Linux

Android Dev on MIUI/HyperOS — adb Traps on Windows

adb is not broken, but Git Bash mangles /sdcard paths, PowerShell produces 0-byte screenshots, MIUI/HyperOS blocks the first installation, and here-strings swallow backslashes when generating PHP code — real traps I hit while developing an Android app on Windows, with commands that actually work

#android#windows#debugging#automation
8 min read·23 Jul