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Tax Season

TurboTax is a crappy piece of software.

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Linux on Mac via UTM

Apple Silicon, UTM, and working with multiarch.

Media Format

Observing Live Network Traffic with Wireshark

Wireshark + tcpdump + ssh = inspect network traffic live

C/C++ Notes

C++ Regex Helper

You write std::regex that works the first try? Well, I am not nearly as good as you, and I find it helpful to iterate my patterns until I get it right: // compile with `g++ -std=c++20 -o regex-sandbox regex-sandbox.cpp` #include <iostream> #include <regex>

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Living with Tesla Model 3

After 80,000 miles, my Tesla Model 3 had repairs that I never imagined I had to do.

Toys

Backyard Climbing Wall

Putting a climbing wall in your backyard is possible sourcing all parts from the Internet, but it is quite a bit of work.

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Ethernet Cables and IP Cameras

Sharing my experience making the cables for home surveillance.

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Synology NAS Web Station, Reverse Proxy and mod_rewrite: Manipulating URLs

Using synology NAS web station, reverse proxy, and mod_rewrite to generate specific URLs.

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Setting Up Synology NAS

Documenting setting up a new Synology DS-220+ NAS with Ghost Blog and Docker.

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Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer does not have a blend tool to interpolate between objects.

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Calligraphy Ink 38

Sharing custom Procreate brush for calligraphy.

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FFMPEG Command Line Recipes

ffmpeg command line recipes to cut, extract, transcode videos and more!

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Linux on Mac

This link is all you need: How to Install Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro - LaptopNinjaUbuntu on your MacBook can give your aging Apple product new life. Learn how to install Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro by following this guide.LaptopNinjaMatt Garrett [https://laptop.ninja/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-a-macbook-pro/]My Notes I installed

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Tesla Solar Roof Install Journal

Notes and rants about my experiences with Tesla energy products: solar panels, roof, and Powerwall batteries.

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WSL2

If you access your Windows drives from Linux, it is very slow under WSL2. This thread [https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197] reporting the issue is more than a year old. If you are like me and value the convenience of being able to access Windows files from Linux,

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Symbolic Link With NTFS

This command has been around for a while, but recently I used: mklink /J <link> <target> to create a directory junction, which is the NTFS way of creating a link to point to directory target. I was wondering why my home directory was using up (a

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Building A Computer, 2017 Edition

Ever since the Ryzen processors became available I've wanted one. I remember back in the Athlon days, AMD provided the much needed competition against Intel's expensive Pentium processors, and everyone benefited as a result. The early reports showed a great multi-core processor that is once again

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Cross-Platform Data Archives

Zipping up a directory is one of the easiest ways to back up data and transport them via flash storage or network. But unexpected things happen when you use different operating systems (Windows, Linux, and OS X) and come to find out that ZIP archives aren't always cross-platform.

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Never Take Away a Feature Without Saying Goodbye

VMWare 12 and Ubunut 14, a tragic combination that exists to teach me an important lesson. With Ubuntu 14.04, setting up desktop environment in VMWare has been rather painful. In the past everything installs and runs, and all I needed to do was getting rid of Unity Desktop. Now

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Fridge and Freezer Temperature

35 degrees Fahrenheit for fridge and lowest possible temperature for freezer. References: Life Hacker [http://lifehacker.com/what-temperature-should-you-keep-your-refrigerator-set-533534221] and U.S. Food and Drug Administration [http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm253954.htm]. It does bother me a little that my refrigerator at home allows temperatures higher than the