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Automating heating with Home Assistant
I’ve been on a mission to use Home Assistant to optimize my home heating, with the dual goals of reducing gas usage and increasing comfort. It’s worked out…
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Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground
Via this comment on Hacker News I started exploring the ClickHouse Playground . It's really cool, and among other things it allows CORS-enabled API hits that can query a decade of history from the GitHub events archive in less than a second.
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To be productive, be prepared
Motivation by itself gives us the willingness to do something, but nothing more. Once we make a start, the game changes and it becomes about knowing how to make progress.
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Saying “sup” with `net send`
When I was in junior high, my friends and I discovered that a Command Prompt command called net send was enabled on our school network. AIM and similar services were blocked, but if we wanted to send messages to each other we could open up the Command Prompt and type something like: net send lab2126-24 test and get an…
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Run Stable Diffusion natively on your Mac
Describe the image you want, and the app makes it for you.
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Ventura Issues
I’m more surprised by the nature of many of these issues, by how ridiculous they are compared with the sheer age and supposed maturity of a 20+ year-old operating system.
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A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell
The terminal is the result of its history, from the telegram to our terminal emulators. What is the difference with a console? The shell?
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Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'
The world's worst security flow
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Unbundling Tools for Thought
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
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Digital Gardening in Obsidian
Observing growth in my notes without being overwhelmed.
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Setting up my new laptop: Nix style
Brian McGee's personal profile and blog
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Rotary Keyboard
Bodging a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard
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The pocket guide to debugging
New zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging
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Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture
Deep work Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to working in a continuously interrupting environment. Smartphone notifications, hundreds of e-mails, open spaces, and meetings slicing our workday. We are feeling busy, and overworked, but are we more productive? If I am a salesman or project coordinator that way of…
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Boring Python: Code quality
This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage …
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A few new things in Emacs 29
Everybody with an Emacs blogs raves about Emacs 29 these days. Things like Eglot, tree-sitter, SQL support and the like. Well, this is all nice – more than nice, brilliant! – but let’s not forget a few minor advances which are coming with Emacs 29. Let me mention a few things that I especially like.
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Quite OK Image is now my favorite asset format
The Quite OK Image (QOI) format was announced late last year and finalized into a specification a month later. Initially dismissive, a revisit has shifted my opinion to impressed. The format hits a sweet spot in the trade-off space between complexity, speed, and compression ratio. Also considering its alpha channel…
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Writing good performance self reviews
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time!
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The more metrics you track, the less you know
The more metrics you track, the less you know.
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Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
Production systems for ecommerce, finance, operations, and applied AI - built and operated for two decades.
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Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli P…
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My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs
IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are great tools to make the lives of developers easier.
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Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap
This technical guide details how you can create your own orthorectified (aka satellite view/bird mode) imagery, point clouds and 3D models of streets with nothing but a 360 degree camera mounted on bicycle helmet, and the open source photogrammetry software OpenDroneMap.
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Getting Started with Tmux
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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Vector Animations with Python (2014)
I am a big fan of Dave Whyte’s vector animations, like this one: It was generated using a special animation language called Processing (here is Dave …
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How to estimate an SSD’s working life
The life of an SSD should be more predictable than a hard disk. All you need is its TBW, and the total amount of data written to it so far.
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Datasette’s new JSON write API: The first alpha of Datasette 1.0
This week I published the first alpha release of Datasette 1.0, with a significant new feature: Datasette core now includes a JSON API for creating and dropping tables and inserting, …