Hey there! Check out my latest blog post where I dive into my portable router build and how you can choose the perfect CPU for your own projects. Plus, there’s more! I discuss my thoughts on frequent medical surveys, share top tips for developer happiness, and even review Naomi Klein’s fascinating book. Catch all this and more on my blog!
- Portable Router Build: Picking Your CPU: I want to introduce you to a project of mine – a portable router build, and with its help, show you how you can build a purpose-built device. You might have seen portable routers for sale, bu…
- An open letter to the medical profession: Dear medical office: I’d like to thank you for sending me a survey about my recent experience at your medical office. You are extremely consistent. Every time I visit a doctor or interact with anyone at your office or any other, I get a survey. I’m sure you’re using those surveys to learn ways you…
- The ultimate guide to developer happiness: Five actionable tips and strategies to supercharge developer happiness—and a more innovative workplace.
- Create a bootable installer for macOS: Use an external drive or secondary volume as a startup disk from which to install macOS.
- Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein: What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you…
- Sponsored by multiple corporations with anti-LGBTQ ties, Lexington Pride Festival held indoors for a second year: This year’s Lexington Pride Festival was very different from years’ past. Instead of an open-air festival in the Courthouse Plaza, the event was held indoors at the Central Bank Center on Saturday, June 29th, 2024. Traditionally, the Lexington Pride Festival had been a free event hosted outside in downtown Lexington but since the move inside, attendees must now pay a $10 admission fee. The venue change, first instituted in 2023, elicited some negative reviews from attendees.
- Why print won’t lie down and die: For a format that’s dead, a projected 75% share of consumer-magazine revenues in 2026 seems pretty healthy to me.
- Settle this household fight: What’s the best way to load a dishwasher?: Tines up? What belongs on the bottom shelf?
- Tending and Bettering: Escaping our problems, whether in our homes, our marriages, our careers, or elsewhere, is easier than remaining where we are and doing the hard work of repair.
- Codenames: I’ve wondered how good a bot that plays using only position information would be (you might also call this an AI, but since we’ll discuss using an LLM/AI to write this bot, we’ll use the term bot to refer to the automated codenames playing agent to make it easy to disambiguate).
- Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional: In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.” Closely following arguments EFF has made in a number of cases, the court found that geofence warrants constitute the sort of “general,…
- Oh My Zsh – a delightful & open source framework for Zsh: Oh My Zsh is a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
- Okay, I really like WezTerm: A guide to configuring WezTerm using its Lua API. Focuses on appearance, keybindings, multiplexing, workspace navigation, and status bar (powerline) setup.