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Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly
The Kelly Rowland/Nelly song Dilemma features an infamous scene amongst nerds where Kelly Rowland tries to send a message to Nelly using a ...
John Graham-Cumming
The SidePulse Pro is a fun project that puts some LEDs in an "SD card format" to go into the side of a MacBook Pro. My MacBook Pro is very old and so it doesn't have an SD card slot, but my Mac Studio does. And since I like to live dangerously (and thought it would look cool), I stuck my newly received SidePulse Pro…
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My Email Canary
Despite the fact that I use really long passwords and two-factor authentication wherever it's available I still worry that someone might b...
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The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
There's a wonderfully powerful and subtle technique in Google Mail that can be used to enhance every reply you make to a mail: if you selec...
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Guest WiFi using a QR code
On my home network I have guest WiFi configured and when guests come round they need to know the password. Happily there's a way to make thi...
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One line you should add to every makefile
If you're using GNU make and you need help debugging a makefile then there's a single line your should add. And it's so useful that you sho...
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“The GNU Make Book”: probably more than you ever wanted to know about make
So, it's finally here. My second book, entitled The GNU Make Book and published by No Starch Press later this month (electronically it's a...
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Two-factor paper passwords
I guess it makes me boring but I try to get people to use stronger passwords. People love to use the same password over and over again, o...
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1,000 (bad) ideas
Tidying up my messy corner in the basement I unearthed one of my older "ideas books" in which I write down the random ideas that flit throug...
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I Made a Rubbish Clock
With separate plastic, metal, paper, and glass recycling, composting, and pick up of all the rest, knowing which days to put out which bins ...
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Your test suite is trying to tell you something
A few weeks ago I started wondering about 'the test that occasionally and randomly breaks' in a large test suite at my job. The test, calle...
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How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive
So you've got a DVD stuck in the external USB SuperDrive that connects to the MacBook Air? And you've tried hitting the magic Eject button ...
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Write your passwords down
Here's my advice on password security based on the collected opinions of others: 1. Write them down and keep them in your wallet because you...
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GNU make insanity: finding the value of the -j parameter
The other day at work a colleague posed the seemingly innocent question "Can I find out the value of the GNU make -j parameter inside a Ma...
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How to sleep on a long haul flight
To the annoyance of people around me I have no trouble sleeping on long haul flights. And I don't take any fancy medication to do so. Havi...