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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)

I can’t believe how dependent I’ve gotten on two features. The first is iCloud Share Tab Groups, this gives you a single view of all your tab groups across all(Continue Reading)

There are very few WiFi channels and most are congested, so the quest goes on for more spectrum and channels to avoid everyone else WiFi Access points. The 2.4 GHz(Continue Reading)

Docker has become the default for lots of reproducible build system, but the sad thing is that although you get a defined image, the specification, the Dockerfile itself, is not(Continue Reading)