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Continue reading →: The confusion that is Google Cloud Platform Billing
It does seem that GCP is somewhat simpler than AWS (but not as simple as Digital Ocean) for sure. We just got some GCP Credits through their startup program and it is a little confusing how to get it and use it, so some notes: A startup can sign up…
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Continue reading →: What a pain no Dark Mode for Mac Safari
This is one of the more annoying problems. With iOS you can set dark mode for the browser, but not for Mac. Instead, there are two utilities that cost money to do this. Dark Eyes for instance only works for five sites. The only solution seems to be to pay…
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Continue reading →: Netlify frustration. There is netlify.yaml and don’t change the dns too fast
Ok, I spent way too much time like hours on this bug. But I’ve gotten to the point where I can fork a repo and create a new website just by adding to new files with Unsplash. But I hit a really confusing problem that drove me crazy. The problem…
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Continue reading →: Testing Lambdas easily and locally
Well, there are so many ways to use server less functions and AWS Lambdas are the biggest way. If you are deploying these, there are also literally a dozen ways to do that. The simplest thing to do is to upload the Lambda and then use the AWS console to…
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Continue reading →: More Geek: What’s all this then about quotes in bash
Ok, this has to be so confusing, but there are times when you are in a bash script and you want some variables to be substituted and some that are not. The easy case if when you want double quote inside a double quote, this is used when you are…
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Continue reading →: Deep Git: What’s all this then about switch, submodules and git lfs object not found
Well, it’s been a long time, but git has got to be amongst the most mysterious of all software tools. I’ve spent the last five years going through tutorials and most of them are obsolete. The git command is undergoing really significant improvement and lots of the confusing things are…
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Continue reading →: Vim and Typescript and what’s all this then about Code Completion
Ok, more stuff for developers, this is about getting Typescript to run with Vim. While many people are using VSCode, I guess the muscle memory and speed of Vi (vee-eye not vaay) are just too much an attraction, so here is as how to get the environment working right. Installing…
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Continue reading →: Pandemic Isolation Recipes
Ok, some of my favorites, Ti Pang is awesome, basically braise any kind of pork in soy sauce and sugar. What can go wrong! I guess the technical term is braised Chinese Braise Pork Shank, but I also knew it as Ti Pang 蹄膀 or affectionately Sweet Hoof 糖蹄. The…
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Continue reading →: More annoyances: Mouse Shake, losing Razor and Keychron Bluetooth and Unifi Intrusion Prevention blocks Github SSH
Ok, three incredibly annoying things finally tracked down early this morning: Unifi Intrusion Protection blocks Github SSH connections The net of it is that Intrusion Prevention has been great (at least I haven’t seen many ill effects except this one). It makes Github basically unusable. I’ve been having horrible problems…
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Continue reading →: Smarthome Gotchas with Unifi Update hell, Vocolinc and Kaiterra on Wifi
Ok, today was a day of little things, of update hell and trying to keep a Smart home up and going plus some tips: Unifi. Make sure that you turn *off* automatic firmware updates. While you will be getting bug fixes, the code is pretty unstable right now. Basically, I…