How to Make Your Openwrt Raspberry Pi 5’s SD Card Actually Useful: Expanding OpenWRT Partition Size

Tired of wasting precious SD card space on your Raspberry Pi 5? In this guide, I’ll walk you through expanding your OpenWRT partition size so you can actually use all that 32GB (or more!) storage. Spoiler: the default OpenWRT setup only gives you about 104MB, leaving the rest of your SD card completely wasted. Follow along as I take you through the frustrating journey of resizing partitions, battling faulty scripts, and finally unlocking your full storage potential—without bricking your Raspberry Pi in the process. Let’s dive in and make that SD card work for you!

Converting Oracle Data Dump (.dmp) Files to CSV: A Practical Guide

Recently, I needed to convert an Oracle Data Dump (.dmp) file to a CSV format. As an Oracle novice, it wasn’t as straightforward as I’d hoped. So, I’m documenting my process, along with common errors I encountered, to hopefully help anyone else facing a similar challenge. Let’s get started!

How to solve mysterious registry ghost problem

I recently encountered a puzzling registry issue where the key was visible in regedit but inaccessible via code, returning error code 2. After some investigation, I discovered the problem stemmed from using a 32-bit Python on a 64-bit system, which redirected the registry path. The solution? Adding the KEY_WOW64_64KEY flag to access 64-bit keys. Problem solved!