OK, I admit it, I’ve been a nerd about the US Navy since I was in the 5th grade and wrote a report on them. (Maybe the fortune teller was right, I was supposed to be an oil tanker captain :-). Anyway, was cleaning out the PDFs stuck in iCloud Drive and I found the […]

Well now that we have AirPods (and love it), plus these ultra cool Sony headphones, it just makes me want to make everything a Bluetooth device. Fortunately for $27, you can do that. Just get the Mpow Bluetooth 4.1 Transmitter/Receiver, this thing is a tiny device that is micro-USB powered. It has a little switch, […]

I don’t often see how much WordPress has moved forward, but this is definitely one of them. It used to be really hard to embed things into WordPress posts (Medium is the same way, you can’t add bullets, you can’t add videos, afaik). But they have an incredible number of things that they can embed. […]

Wow what a powerful song, I’m just catching up on the Hamilton Mixtape and it is awesome. Particularly love Wrote My Way Out. I had not realized that the playwright who did Rent died just as it was going into previews. And listening to the stories that Rap can tell is pretty incredible Hat tip […]

(Note, this is the start of my Medium friendly posts, so away go the bulleted and numbered lists which it doesn’t support at all and up with headings and subheadings. Hat tip to Blog2social for a nice plugin that cross posts). Creating a Go environment: Github Well another month, so another language, have to learn […]

OK, I don’t know why this is a bug, but it definitely exists as an edge case. I’ve been slowly importing my photo library to iCloud, if you take say 4,000 images (I know I have a lot of them!), then it will take MacOS Photos about a week to upload them. However, if you […]

It is incredible how fast a MacBook disk can fill up, here’s how to clean it up: Buy Space Gremlin. yes it costs money, but it is worth it. It will give you a graphical view of where all that hard disk space went. iMovies, I do occasional edits and because of the way it […]

Well if you are using a VPN regularly for privacy reasons, you can see definite slowdowns or outright denials. Reddit picked it up first, but apparently Amazon is blocking VPN addresses, trying to go to Canada or perhaps to obfuscated will help. Apparently people are using VPNs to get into other countries (like the US) to […]