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wp_enqueue_less a replacement for WP-Less

wp_enqueue_less a replacement for WP-Less

I’ve used WP-Less for a couple of years now and been pretty happy with it, but on a couple of occasions I’ve had issues with it and with and the underly lessphp.

There is a filter that can make it use the more upto date less.php instead but the fiter seemed to be ignored when I tried to use it.

This has lead me to having to build a replacement, which is something I’ve looked at on more than one…

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Disable Windows 10 Colour Filter Shortcut with a GPO

Disable Windows 10 Colour Filter Shortcut with a GPO

I came across an interesting problem today. A Windows 10 1709 machine was black and white and no one knew how it had happened.

Windows 10 has a colour filter system to help colour blind users that has the rather badly placed shortcut Windows+Ctrl+C. That’s right a shortcut that by default makes the screen black and white is 1 key away from the copy shortcut.

It can be turned off just as easily…

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Screeps Part 22 - War and Claiming Another Shard

Screeps Part 22 – War and Claiming Another Shard

Screeps Part 22 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

War

Rudykocur has been poking at me pretty hard the last few weeks and it’s not gone very well. My new rangers can win a one on one fight with his attackers no problem due to the way Screeps handles actions.

Action Priorities

The need for his creeps to self-heal meant that they could not attack. A creep can heal and…

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Screeps Part 21 - Optimizing the OS

Screeps Part 21 – Optimizing the OS

Screeps Part 21 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

Respawn again

After talking in the last post about wanting to hunker down in my bunker and wait it out I’ve gone back on that and respawned into a new respawn area that opened up next to me. I was fed up with fighting Fritee for everything. If I had been able to claim the 3rd room it would still be 3 rooms vs 10 which…

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Screeps Part 20 - Bunkers

Screeps Part 20 – Bunkers

Screeps Part 20 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

Moving to Bunkers

The first big hurdle with using bunkers is that my rooms already have layouts. I can’t just place the bunker flag and build it as the extensions/spawns/labs/storage and terminal already exist. In fact, in some rooms, they are in the way of where I want the bunker to spawn.

I started my first bunker in…

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Screeps Part 19 - Operating Systems

Screeps Part 19 – Operating Systems

Screeps Part 19 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

Building an OS

One of my big issues is CPU usage. My inbox has been flooded with notifications telling me that my bucket is empty or high CPU forced my script to end etc… which is not good.

I previously spent a lot of time improving my CPU usage and I’m not sure how my current AI can get any faster. The core of the…

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Office Update Remover

Over at Ed-IT Solutions, we have been having a fun time with KB4011039, an Office update that can cause some pretty big problems for teachers. It makes the text inside merged table cells invisible and you can’t select the table cell at all. This is a huge pain for teachers whos planning is 90% merged table cells.

With Microsoft not releasing a fix until October 3rd we are forced to remove the…

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Creating an MSI Transform with Super Orca

Creating an MSI Transform with Super Orca

I quite frequently deploy software that needs config changes or options before it will work properly. MSI deployments can be given a transform file which modifies the options used when it is installed.

This can be very useful for adding in serial keys or changing the install folder etc… Most MSIs don’t come with a utility to create these transforms or even any documentation as to what options…

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Screeps Part 18 - Typescript

Screeps Part 18 – Typescript

Screeps Part 17 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

Typescript

I’ve been seeing a lot of good things said about Typescript on the Screeps slack. Typescript is a version of Javascript created by Microsoft that adds typing to Javascript. Bonzai has written an introduction to typescript over on Screeps World (here) which convinced me.

With typings in my code Typescript…

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This is what happens when you leave Riker in charge

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Screeps Part 17 - Room Planning

Screeps Part 17 – Room Planning

Screeps Part 17 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

A Respawn

So yeah, fighting tier 3 boosted creeps did not go well. Once they downed a tower in my room that was it, a single tower could not out damage the healing of the creep and the room gets wiped.

My ramparts put up a good fight and in one of my rooms, I did defeat the invader. Of course, another one came along 10…

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I wonder if this is why alerts are done by colour. Every episode they would be calling out something that black and white TV watchers couldn't see easily.

Or as Chekov would say it, RCA Wictor.

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Screeps Part 16 - Faster in an Alliance

Screeps Part 16 – Faster in an Alliance

Screeps Part 16 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

PathFinder.CostMatrix

To the south of my main rooms, there is a room with no spawn and a bunch of structures from a player who has not hit respawn after dying. This is great news for me.

650K Energy waiting to be taken.

I can withdraw from that storage and take the energy back to one of my rooms. The problem is that to…

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Screeps Part 15 - New Empire

Screeps Part 15 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

W48N98

My new room is pretty run of the mill but it does have a fair few rooms around it that can be mined or claimed. As I said at the end of the last post I don’t intend on rushing up to my room limit favouring remote mining to get my creeps up.

Firstly I need to get this room up and running properly. It is in a free…

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Screeps Part 14 - More Improvements and a Respawn

Screeps Part 14 – More Improvements and a Respawn

Screeps Part 13 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

Remote Mining

I wanted to get to grips with remote mining. At the moment I just send the creeps and they have no roads etc… I want to change that so I can speed them up with roads and get an idea of the profit from each remote room.

I suspected for one of my remote rooms that it was actually costing me energy to mine…

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Screeps Part 13 - Building Up

Screeps Part 13 – Building Up

Screeps Part 13 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

Building Up

The new AI from part 12 was not as complete when it was called into service. It wasn’t important at the time, my rooms were all dead and I only needed it to gather energy and build new creeps.

It took a bit of work getting the room claiming system to work. Game.roomsonly contains rooms you control or have…

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Screeps Part 12 - Start Again

Screeps Part 12 – Start Again

Screeps Part 12 is the latest in my screeps story, you can read the rest here.

Like the last time I re-wrote my AI this post has become rather long. It is well worth a read as I think I had some pretty good ideas for AI improvements.

Disaster

So it has been a while since I seriously played Screeps. I’ve done a lot since then, moving house etc… which has stopped me playing. The one time I did dip…