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We have a WaterCop system at home from the ancient days before Apple HomeKit and also an old lighting system. The first one has false alarms and we can’t ever(Continue Reading)

One of the cool things that GitHub handles pretty well is changing your company’s organization. For instance, if you have a secret name, say Acme, then you create an organization(Continue Reading)

OK, inspired by the really cool Commitlint project which ensures you don’t just type “fix” when you do a git commit, I learned about a standard Conventional Commit format to(Continue Reading)

Well for a variety of crazy reasons we just drove 11 hours to Montana. It was a great trip and an easy way to see some beautiful country (with suitably(Continue Reading)

Well, now that the rendering of LaTeX worked, might as well get diagrams working the same way. It’s the same idea, there is a WP Mermaid plugin and there is(Continue Reading)

Well, there are two good options: Use the Unicode characters for mathematics in simple one-line formulas and then add the Greek keyboard for things like pi or π by using(Continue Reading)

Well, I’ve been putting off buying a new Apple Watch for years. We got the first Series 1 and it was hard to figure out what to do with it(Continue Reading)

OK, it’s been three long years since I’ve used a dedicated bare-metal Ubuntu machine. The last time was with house-made machine learning machines when the Titan was a big system,(Continue Reading)

In these days of high gas prices. I was curious to see what the real energy cost savings are right to now. Back in 2017, we had the option to(Continue Reading)

Ugh, I’ve been trying to limp along with an Apple Watch Series 3 and it’s been hard. The thing doesn’t last very long battery-wise and is slow. Also at some(Continue Reading)