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Continue reading →: The Hell that is USB C Cables
I can’t believe we ever managed to make such a hash of cables, but to refresh everyone, back three years ago, I wrote 2018 The State of USB C Charging and then again back in 2017 USB C Cable Recommendations, so time now for another review of USB C and…
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Continue reading →: Great Midwestern Distilled Spirits
Had a great Zoom cocktail hour with some friends from the Midwest and I got a great list of classic spirits, I need to stock for the next time (soon!) when they can all come and visit: Buckeye Vodka. Well, I’m not quite sure how to get this, but Ohio’s…
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Continue reading →: Dealing with old 1Password installations
I’ve actually been using 1Password for five years now and some of my machines used the older synchronization system with Dropbox. One of the bugs I’ve encountered is that even if you disable these synchronizers, the password on the Mac version of 1Password stays stuck on the old password in…
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Continue reading →: Wrist Rest and Pads for Keyboards and current favorite Keyboards
It just seems like I’m more and more sensitive to the position of my hands on a keyboard. I can’t actually type in bed or lying down anymore. So I’ve learned to sit up. But I’ve also gotten a bunch of new keyboards and I haven’t had a wrist rest…
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Continue reading →: The assymetry that is Apple TV Screen Sharing
We were recently watching a dance concert that was broadcast on the web and, man, is it complicated to try to get that to project on an Apple TV to see on the big screen. The big problem here is that there are two kinds of sharing that an Apple…
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Continue reading →: The Internal Craziness that is Git Submodules and LFS a reflection
Well, these are really powerful, but incredibly hard to understand. It’s taken me five years to get a sense of how to really use these is to first understand at an architectural level what is really happening inside Git, then it makes sense how this whole thing works. It’s taken…
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Continue reading →: Writing Documents with Deepnote and bringing Jupyter Lab up to snuff with Extensions
Ok, the ideal thing is that if you are writing some up intellectual property (IP) documents for say patents or papers, you need a good base to do this. Right now, I’m trying to set up a workflow that is efficient and easy for a patent attorney for instance to…
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Continue reading →: Unifi Diagnosis: the troubles with github threat protection and mysterious iOS incompatibilities
OK, I thought I had beat this one, but now it looks like there are more issues, but in tuning our Unifi network I was working on two issues: Apple devices sometimes will not connect. If you turn on all the goodies with Wifi, then iOS clients will suddenly report…
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Continue reading →: Google Cloud Platform Strategies: Of Kubernetes, GKE, Helm, and locally on a Mac with Microk8s
Ok with those preliminaries out of the way how do you get a GPU instance up and running and have it work easily. There are a few steps. The main issue are when you are thinking about this that there are 3.5 different ways to do things these days and…
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Continue reading →: Google Cloud Platform using GCloud CLI to create projects and billing
Well in the world of Infrastructure as Code, the idea is that you try not to use the graphical interface and instead use the command line. Put it in scripts and other tools. So here are the basics for doing this with Google Cloud Platform. The nice thing is that…