Category: Tech Tips

So you’re trying to get something done and you’ve found an awesome tool to install via pip. You pop open Terminal, run your pip install command (in my case, pip install google_images_download), install the module successfully, and are ready to get to work. You start working on your Python script and get an error: ImportError: […]

I was having challenges where a script that used to work for sending keystrokes directly to a window based on its window title wasn’t working. I tried troubleshooting a bunch of stuff (so weird since it was working before) but nothing was sticking. I stumbled across a comment mentioning that programs being run as Adminstrator […]

Recently had an annoying error come up where I couldn’t start Call of Duty: Warzone. I tried: Scan and repair which took forever and didn’t work Restarting my computer Un-installing and re-installing (this didn’t work and now I couldn’t even install the game) Deleting my Battle.net folder in AppData Running Battle.net as Administrator Ultimately, what […]

If you’re like me and you wanted to download Age of Empires 4 to play with your friends on Game Pass you might have run into this error. You start the install and for some reason its not progressing. You go to check on your progress and see there’s an error. Maybe you restart the […]

I’d messed up my pipenv previously by trying to get it to install a module that just wasn’t working out for me. In using pipenv install -skip-lock I’d inadvertently put my pipenv in a state where it was constantly stuck in a loop where it was trying to install “blocks” through pipenv which just wasn’t […]

Let’s say you accidentally commit and push a file full of passwords (like a .env file) that you don’t want other people to want and now it is part of your public project on Github? How do you get rid of that? Fear not, follow these two commands and you’ll be back to before you […]