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Continue reading →: Doing versions numbers right SemVar
I had never thought much about it, but Semvar.org has. This is a way to think about creating version numbers of your projects. That is to give real meaning to 1.2.1 and there are some great ideas here all based about what is stable in the API set. For an…
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Continue reading →: Mac Long-running network shares use SMB and Finder connection problems
Ok I’m trying to do something a little crazy. I want a reliable way to copy things and maintain checksums on long term backups. It’s a project that I’ve done off an on for a long time and it is nearly done! Here are some notes: Rsync is a great…
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Continue reading →: Making more space on your Mac 2020
Well, if you made a mistake, like me, of ordering a MacBook Pro with too little SSD. In this case 256GB is really too little, then you are going to spend a lot of time getting rid of stuff. With most Macs, if you are writing code, using Dropbox or…
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Continue reading →: Migrating Your Google Drive data to a new organization
This is actually more complicated than you would think. That’s because Google Drive documents are really links into the cloud. So if you just copy them, you are still referring to something. And if the “owner” deletes it, you lose the document completely. The second reason for all this brain…
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Continue reading →: A decoder ring for Trello and it’s mashup of teams, user name and boards
Every company seems to have a different way of thinking about users and groups and Trello (now part of Atlassian is no different). If you are using this, here are the key things to know: Github-like identities. It is much closer to github in that it prefers that a person…
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Continue reading →: Scary git message with git lfs
Ok got a scary message today when I tried to git push, a bad object error! Turns out that if you have git lfs (Large File Storage) turned on and you try to push and you are behind the upstream and have LFS changes, then you get this error. The…
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Continue reading →: More Github madness on forking, transfers and Zenhub
Ok, Cassian says forking does not sound completely healthy thing to do. Well, for those none geeks out there, what it means is that if there is that in github, a bunch of code is collected together in a repository. If you want to work on someone’s software, then there…
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Continue reading →: Forking a Private Repo
Wow this is now amazingly complicated as Github probably for very good security reasons, so here are the steps if you are creating a new organization: Go to the Organization and in Setting turn on Private forks so that you don’t accidentally Then in each Repo, go to settings and…
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Continue reading →: Eureka! URL, Landing Pages and Domain Redirects from Registrar to DNS to MU WordPress
Man this information is just littered everywhere and it is nearly impossible to figure out and has taken me three months of wandering the Internet, but for most modern installations, you really want three levels of flexibility: Lots of different domain names pointing to the same base site. In these…
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Continue reading →: What all this then about Tesla of electrification and autonomy and the Power of TWO
Well most of this is already coming to pass, but right now Tesla stock is again at near it’s all time high. While I have no idea what the market will bring, there seem to be three factors that are coming into play. It’s like most business school cases, whether…