Category Archives: Computing

How to Open WPS Files

Microsoft works word processor files had a file extension of “.wps”. Works was last released in 2007 and unfortunately current versions of word cannot open old word processor wps files. Use LibreOffice to Open WPS Files I’ve found that the best solution is to use LibreOffice, an open source office product. In a lot of… Read More »

Markdown Contents Table

The original inspiration for this post is this medium post which shows how a single (long) command can generate a markdown contents table for GitHub. The command is specifically for GitHub as it relies on the auto-generated links that the site makes, rather than needing to add links manually. In my post I wanted to… Read More »

Arduino FreeRTOS

I was interested to follow this guide to doing an Arduino FreeRTOS install. It’s a good tutorial and my post here just adds a few more notes around areas that didn’t immediately make sense to me. Also check out the Arduino FreeRTOS source code on GitHub Arduino FreeRTOS This section has a few notes about… Read More »

Simple NiFi Dataflow

This post shows a simple NiFi dataflow and tries to demonstrate some of the elements of creating a NiFi workflow including adding and connecting processors, attributes and properties. This simple NiFi dataflow takes files from an input directory and routes them to different folders depending on the file name. Configure NiFi and Docker Compose In… Read More »