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Well the kids swear by their Ronstan sailing watches. They are actually made by Optimum Time in the UK, but they are reliable and ubiquitous, but there are definitely other options: Aquastar Match Race 9010 ($120). It is Swiss and has a cool collection of dots at the top for…

Well we ripped out our electrostatic air filters which needed cleaning every three months and put in paper filters. I feel bad about using more paper, but they just plane work better. So I guess I take the recommendation. These filters are really confusing to buy but there are basically…

Welcome back to the real world, so you need to change your password right now for but you can check haveibeenpwned.com LinkedIn. They had a massive hack of a 25% of all their passwords. Back in 2012, but they are now on sale now. Tumbler. Same thing back in 2013 but…

Such a strange product! If u say to upgrade your Notes app then the upgrade button never appears again unless u to to settings/iCloud/notes and click and unclick it.  The new file format doesn’t work with old iPads and old versions of MacOS so just use on newer machines. Finally…

I’ve been confused for a while about the Whispbar. We have these for our older Honda Fit and they are truly impressive. Quiet and they do not reduce gas mileage either unlike the older Thule square bars I’ve used before. But I didn’t realize that whispbar.com is actually a company…

I haven’t bought a bike in literally a decade, but it is fun to get back into it particularly for a new rider. It may be sad or good, but not a lot has changed in biking in the last few years. The big changes are the move to electronic…

Well the monitor world is actually moving pretty quickly these days with the transition to 4K monitors well in swing and prices dropping, here are recommendations from Tom’s Hardware for good, better and best in the office. The biggest caveat is that you have to get a mini-Displayport to Displayport…

Well I’ve been using git for (three?) years now and this last week I made three horrible mistakes by accidentally pushing to master and also merging when I didn’t mean to. This happens much more often when I use multiple machines at home and at work. So here’s to better…

Well when you get beyond AAA batteries (I think the Chinese and Japanese systems are a little simple D is type 1, C is type2,.. You enter the world of strange numbers and letters. Here’s decoder ring for just one type R44. As an aside, the code is the type of…

Well we’ve been using Docker quite a bit in production and it has been a learning experience for sure. A good one in that you start with a simple Dockerfile which looks a lot like a shell script and then realize how powerful the ideas are. The main confusion is…