Author Archives: Laszlo Pinter

How to disable image switching by the mouse scroll wheel in IrfanView

IrfanView is a great, free image editing program. One feature can destroy all your work if you keep it enabled. When you rotate the scroll wheel of your mouse and the vertical scroll bar is not visible, the application loads the next image file from the directory. With this, you lose all changes you made …

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How to create a free Mapbox access token

Mapbox provides mapping services, and for private individuals many of those services are free. They ask for a credit card number to create a free access token, but they only charge it if the usage is very high, which usually only happens when the token is used for commercial purposes. To avoid credit card charges, …

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Migrating from conda to conda-forge for Python package management

Anaconda changed its Term of Use to require payment from companies larger than 200 employees. Many companies are not willing to pay the subscription fees for a software they can substitute. conda-forge is the free, really open source alternative for the conda Python package manager. To migrate your development environment from conda to conda-forge Install …

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Type ‘unknown’ is not assignable to type …

TypeScript tries to make sure the variables are always populated with data of the type specified during the variable definition. Issue When the TypeScript compiler thinks a function can return another data type, or “unknown”, “undefined”, “null”, Visual Studio Code displays a warning: type ‘unknown’ is not assignable to type … Solution The solution is …

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Host the Cities: Skylines map generator locally

There are times when the Cities: Skylines Map Generator at https://heightmap.skydark.pl is not available. The free MapBox token expires because of the number of requests it serves. We can host the site ourselves on our workstation and use it any time. Install XAMPP XAMPP is a free web server created by Apache Friends. Download the …

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Create a high resolution overlay image for Cities: Skylines II

The Image Overlay mod for Cities: Skylines 2 allows us to build a city based on real world locations. See Image overlay in Cities: Skylines 2 on how to install and use it. To generate a high resolution overlay image Create the standard resolution overlay image Create a 2560×2560 pixel overlay image matching the height …

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