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Comprehensive Guide to Figma Auto Layout: From Basics to Advanced Implementation

Before diving into the detailed points, here's a summary of the key insights: Figma's Auto Layout is a powerful feature that transforms static designs into responsive, adaptable layouts. This guide explores ten critical aspects of Auto Layout, covering everything from basic setups and nested structures to advanced techniques like absolute positioning and mixed layout strategies. You'll learn how to build responsive components, customize padding and spacing, and implement real-world UI elements that automatically adjust to content changes.

Basic Auto Layout Fundamentals

Auto Layout in Figma transforms static designs into dynamic, responsive layouts that automatically adjust to content changes. This fundamental feature serves as the foundation for creating flexible and maintainable user interfaces.

Auto Layout works by applying a set of rules to frames that determine how child elements behave when content changes. These ru

Permanent WSL DNS Fix (WSL 2.2.1+)

If you're encountering ping github.com failing inside WSL with a Temporary failure in name resolution, you're not alone — this has been a long-standing issue, especially when using VPNs or corporate networks.

This issue is now fixed robustly with DNS tunneling, which preserves dynamic DNS behavior and avoids limitations like WSL’s former hard cap of 3 DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf.

DNS tunneling is enabled by default in WSL version 2.2.1 and later, meaning that if you're still seeing DNS resolution issues, the first and most effective fix is simply to upgrade WSL. Upgrading WSL updates the WSL platform itself, but does not affect your installed Linux distributions, apps, or files.

To upgrade WSL, follow these steps,

Windows 10 Tips

Release Notes

Microsoft's release information

Version 1703 Released 2017-04-11: Build 15063.138 (Creators update) KB4015583 Download
Version 1607 Released 2016-08-02: Build 14393.1066 (Anniversary update) KB4015217 Download
Version 1511 Released 2015-11-10: Build 10586.873 KB4015219 Download
Version 1507 (RTM) Released 2015-07-29: Build 10240.17354 KB4015221 [Download](http://www.catalog.up

Rendering in Blender on a machine with multiple GPUs

So here's the premise: For scenes that take around a minute or less to render, performance is actually worse if you render on all of the cards with a single instance of Blender. This is because (AFAIK) there's a bit of additional time necessary to collect the render results from each card and stitch them together. That time is a fixed short duration, so it's negligible on larger/longer render jobs. However, on shorter render jobs, the 'stitch time' has a much more significant impact.

I ran into this with a machine I render on that has 4 Quadro K6000s in it. To render animations, I ended up writing a few little scripts to facilitate launching 4 separate instances of Blender, each one tied to one GPU. Overall rendertime was much shorter with that setup than one instance of Blender using all 4 GPUs.

The setup works basically like this... I have a the following Python script (it can be anywhere on your hard drive, so long as you remember the path to it).

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

	import bpy

	# credit to https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/75790/how-to-merge-around-300-duplicate-materials/229803#229803

	# remove duplicate materials
	def remove_duped_materials():
	mats = bpy.data.materials
	for mat in mats:
	(original, _, ext) = mat.name.rpartition(".")

	import sys
	import bpy
	import addon_utils

	argv = sys.argv
	argv = argv[argv.index("--") + 1:] # get all args after "--"

	C = bpy.context
	bpy.context.scene.cycles.device = 'GPU'
	cycles_prefs = C.user_preferences.addons['cycles'].preferences

	# Description: Boxstarter Script
	# Author: Jess Frazelle <jess@linux.com>
	# Last Updated: 2017-09-11
	#
	# Install boxstarter:
	# . { iwr -useb http://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1 } \| iex; get-boxstarter -Force
	#
	# You might need to set: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
	#
	# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an elevated command-prompt:

	# Download latest dotnet/codeformatter release from github

	$repo = "dotnet/codeformatter"
	$file = "CodeFormatter.zip"

	$releases = "https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/releases"

	Write-Host Determining latest release
	$tag = (Invoke-WebRequest $releases \| ConvertFrom-Json)[0].tag_name

	###
	###
	### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script:
	### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
	### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
	### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
	### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win \| iex
	###
	### OR take a look at
	### https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security