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ai: ComfyUI and Video Generation Missing Mac Manual v1.6 2025-04-27
OK, my previous post on Open WebUI was getting long, so here is a getting a little long and while it covers ComfyUI integration, the bigger topic of using ComfyUI is scattered all over the winds. So if you just want to get ComfyUI to work, here’s the missing manual for that. Some of this…
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pod: London AI Hub January 13 2025
Well we had another one of these great events and it was so good to hear from everyone there and here is the Zoom. It’s a little ugly and messy but gets the points across which are: See it here on YouTube Or check it out as a Podcast on Spotify or listen on Apple…
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inet: Google Drive Storage Counts Get Real
For a long time I’ve wondered how Google Drive does it, no matter how many Google Slides I store with no matter how many images, the storage count against me is always 137 bytes or something. They only count the pointer and not the storage. I woke up this morning to the warning, “you are…
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mac: Getting great Text to speech
While there are better systems out there of course, nothing is better than free and what the Mac has isn’t bad. It is a complete pain to setup, but basically, you have to:
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wp: Removing local backups with Updraft on WordPress
I’ve been a faithful users of Updraft for a long time, but because I haven’t used shared hosting in a long time, the backup files have not been a problem (and don’t take much space), but Inmotion has an automatic searching tool that looks for backup files and they bang on you if you have…
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dev: Getting rid of Git LFS
This thing is a bit of a pain, it is very expensive on Github although they’ve lowered the price artificially, it is $5 for 50GB of Git LFS storage. As long as you keep your files less than 100MB you shouldn’t have a problem, but how do you get rid of it once you have…
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web: Need an A Record for SOA propagation
OK, I was too clever by half and it bit me. Basically, I have lots of different hosting providers, I’ve used Bluehost, Inmotion, Cloudways and DigitalOcean and I’ve been using A records to point to the individual hoster so I can easily switch. Last month I thought I was clever and just made tongfamily.com a…
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dev: 1Password cli only works online
Well, I’ve been having fun with developer tools for the past week, so documenting some of them before I descend (yet again!) into the depths of patent writing hell. 1Password CLI Well, 1Password is making some great improvements as they evolve from an influential end user store you passwords into an enterprise developer focused system…
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ai: OpenWebUI Missing Mac Manual with Ollama and ComfyUI notes v1.9 2025-04-11
Well, Open WebUI is an incredible project that provides a nice graphical front end for local AI development, but the documentation is lacking. You can figure some things out by looking at the documentation, but mainly it is trial and error. So here are my notes for using the various features that are on the…
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tel: T-Mobile to US Mobile porting and Warp to Darkstar transfer
Well, we are about half T-Mobile and half US Mobile now and here are some things to know. When you are porting, make sure you figure out turning off porting protection. Watch Companion Plans Since you don’t care about the number it is easier to try to cancel the plan Transferring between networks One cool…