No tray icons after upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10?

I have been hearing about a lot of problems from people not being able to access the tray icons of some of their apps/background processes on Ubuntu after they upgraded to the recent Ubuntu 17.10, that uses GNOME as its default desktop environment. Well, the first fix is to just choose Unity while logging in or if you still prefer the new GNOME UI, like me, you might have to do a little bit of work to make it happen.
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UhOh, did I break WhatsApp’s “Last Seen” feature?

Update: This was a proof-of-concept that I did back in Sept ’17. I did not expect such a great response to this project. As mentioned by many people, the code does not work anymore because WhatsApp Web keeps changing it’s code. However, I encourage you to fork my project on GitHub to make it work for your own needs. Ever since I started to code when I was 12 years old, I always liked to break stuff more than make stuff.
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Quick Tip: How to find all hardcoded text in an Android project

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How I got my ICSE results much before the said date and time B-)

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) had announced that they will be publishing the ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) 2014 examinations, for grade 10 students, results on the 21st of May at 15:00 IST. The CISCE announced, on the 20th of May, that the results will also be available through several other websites other than the official website of the CISCE. One of them was cisce.in.com. I visited this website to get my elder sister’s ISC (Indian School Certificate) examinations, for grade 12 students, result.
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Using Font Awesome in your Qt app

Update: Using QML instead? Click here to find out how you can use it in your QML app. Update 2: The script can now generate a javascript file as well to be used in a QML app. I was working on one of my projects and I thought it would be convenient to use Font Awesome instead of separate icon files for different icons (I love Font Awesome, thanks Dave Gandy!
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