Yes, Apple did forget to include a dial pad for FaceTime on the Mac. Says who? I do. Every now and then I make short posts about Apple macOS/Mac behavior I observe that annoys or delights me enough to spend time writing a post. It isn’t all perfectly thought through that gets the Apple design […]
Just the other day I was finally fed up with managing a website with FTP and switched to website hosting with Git. In hindsight I don’t understand why haven’t done this transition a long time ago. It is so much more convenient and setting it up is really just a matter of minutes. This article […]
Sitting in the office, coming across an NYT article about Steve Perry. No time to read right now, printing it to read later in the train. F… picked the wrong printer; the one at home. Print job sitting in the queue looking for printer. Opening the right printer via system preferences Drag and drop job […]
I understand a Thunderbird iCloud calendar sync may be a niche use case. However, if you’re stuck with it you don’t care how much of a niche it is. You’ll want clear instructions how to fix you problem, that is how to add an iCloud calendar to Thunderbird – and you’ll get just that here. […]
Back from a long blogging hiatus… I’ve you’ve been following this blog or read a couple of the more recent articles then you know that “IoT” has consumed a lot of my spare-time in the last two years. Hundreds of hours have gone into supporting the NodeMCU firmware project. I’ve been a tool smith, a […]
A while ago I asked on Stack Overflow how to create an info icon with wxPython. I asked because I needed a way to to explain the options for a radio control in my NodeMCU PyFlasher project. Ultimately the idea was to redirect users to two online resources that explain those options in much greater […]
All it takes to analyze SSL certificates on macOS is, as so often, a single shell command. macOS comes with everything you need pre-installed. This is yet another “notepad scribble post” i.e. a public note for myself so I don’t have to search the Internet next time I want to analyze SSL certificates on macOS. Dump […]
This attempts to answer the question which network cables are supported by the TP-Link TL-POE200 Power over Ethernet set. The user manual insists on the usage of CAT5 UTP cables. However, when I contacted their support asking if those were the only types of cables supported they weren’t able to help; rather disappointing. In a […]
In this post I’ll show you how to build a LoRaWAN gateway for The Things Network. While I could talk about what LoRaWAN is or why I think it’s essential that the IoT world fully embraces it I’ll refrain from doing so. Accordingly I won’t be introducing The Things Network (TTN) in this article either. It’s […]
In this article I’ll present a foolproof method to keep slugs out of your raised bed. Bill of materials: – 9V battery with connector, some claim that 4 AA batteries (6V) in a case should do as well – 0.5mm (0.02”) electrical wire, non-isolated – pliers – stapler – small plastic box with cover There […]