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Continue reading →: wp: Digital Ocean Reserved IP Strangeness even if not the DNS Server, Litespeed fail, Cloudways ughoK, this is a strange one, so a quick note if you hit it. I’m trying to get a Digital Ocean WordPress up and no matter what I did it didn’t see to work. I”m using Netlify as the DNS Server but it would never recognize the new IP address…
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Continue reading →: photo: Argh Canon Pro 9000, Passport Photos, and HP Color LaserJet M478What a pain, I’ve had a really high-quality printer, the Canon Pro 9000 for years now, but Canon has unfortunately stopped supporting drivers for it. I have probably $200 worth of ink left and like my other Canon (which died some horrible hardware death). There was a rumble that the…
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Continue reading →: wp: InMotion WordPress and Restore from CloudwaysWell, I am now spending $30/month on Digital Ocean, $60/month on Cloudways and I can’t update my Digital Ocean Ubuntu 20.04, the dist-upgrade keeps failing and the Cloudways thing is just unbearably slow. Ironically, I’m finding the $10/month Inmotion Hosting to be much faster than a virtual server, but I…
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Continue reading →: apple: Utterly confusing sharing AirPods from a single iPhone or iPadThis is such a cool gesture, but I have to confess I simply always forget how to use it. No, you can’t find it in settings or anywhere sane like that. Even the Apple instructions are super unclear but here is exactly what to do: So that’s not too bad.…
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Continue reading →: tvl: Tessan 140W, Satechi 145W and Anker MagGo blinking and Cable StrangenessOK, I’ve been trying to reduce my kit while traveling a lot and the Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger seems like a wonderful thing if I can figure out how to make it work as does the Belkin 3-in-1 Travel charger with the same issues. Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger:…
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Continue reading →: Blog: Life Beyond WordPress to JAMStackAs I’ve mentioned, I’m trying to get to a stable WordPress for a long time and maybe this time I’ll do it. JAMStack is creatingly better for vanity sites, but maybe this time for my blog as well. Well, just before the pandemic, I tried to get out of WordPress…
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Continue reading →: vid: Final Cut Pro Slideshow Tips: Portraits, Ken Burns, Panos, Transitions, Horizons, Zoom, HLG vs PQI have a huge number of things I’ve forgotten about Final Cut Pro, but in producing a nice slide show, here are the things I keep forgetting. By the way, I actually have a playlist for all these tricks for Podcasting, OBS, Final Cut Pro, and Logic Pro on YouTube…
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Continue reading →: pod: Rich and Steven talk AI as of end of August
There’s been a hiatus mainly because we’ve been shipping products, but more because I lost all my skills at making new videos. I was stuck for a long time on Drop Zones and doing a better intro and outro, but that’s a digression for Final Cut Pro nerds. In this…
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Continue reading →: vid: Final Cut Pro review, combine audio/video, make intros, drop zones
Man, this tool is just so complicated. I haven’t created an intro for six months and have completely forgotten all the things I’ve learned in: The latest tricks: Combining audio and video clips This is pretty unintuitive as well. Basically, if you say have a video effect and you want…
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Continue reading →: dev: Move from poetry to uvThanks to Rakuto, I’ve made the switch from Poetry which was nice and worked well to uv which is from the folks at Astral, and even faster. The move to ruff and uv has been great although a bit of work. Here are some notes: Direnv virtual environments The trickiest…
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