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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

OK, I have not really had to use Office on the desktop in a *very* long time. Most of my editing is just with Google Workspace these days, but thanks to the Microsoft Alumni Network, we do get a $99 subscription per year as part of being that group. So…

Ok, you can now see all my podcasts on a dedicated Podcast page thanks to the miracle workers at Blubrry with the PowerPress Plugin. This gives you a dedicated view that is either standard HTML5 or their own flavor. There are a sea of other Podcast plugins at Optin Monster…