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Continue reading →: Getting Mail to work properly from WordPressWell this has always been a little bit of a mystery to me. When you work with WordPress, it eventually does like to send mail to folks as an administrator. How do you make this work. If you are using Amazon AWS Lightsail, the default Bitnami image has something called…
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Continue reading →: Using Zoom with SlackWell this a cool feature, you can just say /zoom meeting standup and it will automatically create a Zoom call from within Slack. There are a few tricks though: Connect to Slack with your main administrator account so that you are not using a personal one if you are in…
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Continue reading →: Vuescan hangs on Calibrate with MacOS Catalina probably due to Grain DissolverI had this problem a few years ago Sierra, but Vuescan, an image scanner, hangs on calibrate and results are wrong. I never did get to the bottom of it and just switched to USB from Firewire, but how it is back. I think it is probably some bad parameters,…
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Continue reading →: Doing versions numbers right SemVarI had never thought much about it, but Semvar.org has. This is a way to think about creating version numbers of your projects. That is to give real meaning to 1.2.1 and there are some great ideas here all based about what is stable in the API set. For an…
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Continue reading →: Mac Long-running network shares use SMB and Finder connection problemsOk I’m trying to do something a little crazy. I want a reliable way to copy things and maintain checksums on long term backups. It’s a project that I’ve done off an on for a long time and it is nearly done! Here are some notes: Rsync is a great…
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Continue reading →: Making more space on your Mac 2020Well, if you made a mistake, like me, of ordering a MacBook Pro with too little SSD. In this case 256GB is really too little, then you are going to spend a lot of time getting rid of stuff. With most Macs, if you are writing code, using Dropbox or…
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Continue reading →: Migrating Your Google Drive data to a new organizationThis is actually more complicated than you would think. That’s because Google Drive documents are really links into the cloud. So if you just copy them, you are still referring to something. And if the “owner” deletes it, you lose the document completely. The second reason for all this brain…
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Continue reading →: A decoder ring for Trello and it’s mashup of teams, user name and boardsEvery company seems to have a different way of thinking about users and groups and Trello (now part of Atlassian is no different). If you are using this, here are the key things to know: Github-like identities. It is much closer to github in that it prefers that a person…
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Continue reading →: Scary git message with git lfsOk got a scary message today when I tried to git push, a bad object error! Turns out that if you have git lfs (Large File Storage) turned on and you try to push and you are behind the upstream and have LFS changes, then you get this error. The…
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Continue reading →: More Github madness on forking, transfers and ZenhubOk, Cassian says forking does not sound completely healthy thing to do. Well, for those none geeks out there, what it means is that if there is that in github, a bunch of code is collected together in a repository. If you want to work on someone’s software, then there…
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