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Continue reading â: Protected: dev: The Seven Levels of Heaven for AI-assisted coding the Missing Manual
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Continue reading â: wp: The nightmare that is an IP address change at InMotion and the miracle of warp, 1password
Wow, what a crazy thing, I’m traveling a lot and then suddenly, our main site, tongfmaily.com suddenly goes down with a strange message that just lists the underlying hosting site. I had gotten a notice that some backup files were on the site and I didn’t have a chance to…
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Continue reading â: ai: OpenWebUI Missing Mac Manual with Ollama and ComfyUI notes v2.1 2025-05-04
Well, Open WebUI is an incredible project that provides a nice graphical front end for local AI development, but the documentation is lacking. You can figure some things out by looking at the documentation, but mainly it is trial and error. The original v1 Missing Manual is here. This adds…
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Continue reading â: net: Making Zoom Backgrounds with Apple Photos and Final Cut Pro redux
OK, I think I’ve finally figured out a bunch of things about making Zoom Backgrounds. The first is that it will only accept 1080p SDR videos, so here’s the easiest way to make them for yourself: Taking the Photos, prop it, shoot in Action Mode or 4K and HDR The…
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Continue reading â: tvl: Lord of the Rings Locations (LOtR)
Welt’s been two decades of loving Lord of the Rings and watching it on everything from the Cinerama to home theaters to phones. But, there is nothing quite like getting to New Zealand and seeing some of the locations for real. There are lots of list, but none of them…
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Continue reading â: tax: The many ways to Pay US Taxes
This is such a confusing subject because besides writing a check, there are so many way to pay, here are some of them: If you have the misfortune to be a trustee, then you have to make online payments with for 1041 trusts with EFTPS which is complicated.
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Continue reading â: Mac: Annoying “would like to access data from other apps”
You get this warning a lot these days with MacOS Sequoia. What is happening it that if you do not set in Settings > Security > Disk and Privacy > Full Disk Access then this comes up. So be careful what you give the rights too, but for instance Terminal…
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Continue reading â: nvim: The Missing Manual for NeoVim v0.9 2025-03-31
Neovim has become such a rich product that even though it is a very fast command-line tool (unlike VS Code), I still use it extensively because you don’t need a mouse. You can do all this in VS Code, but if you want to be that Ferrari 1960s vintage driver…
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Continue reading â: net: Google Shared Drive Missing Manual v0.9 2025-03-31
Well, we finally moved from using shared folders to Shared Drives adding a whole new level of permissions confusion. We have a few goals: This turned out to be quite a bit harder than you think. So here’s the missing conceptual manual of what is going on. Shared Drives Need…
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Continue reading â: read: From the CDL Reading Group with Ken Liu
Wow that group is awesome, but some great short stories You should read them all!