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Continue reading â: tax: The many ways to Pay US TaxesThis is such a confusing subject because besides writing a check, there are so many way to pay, here are some of them: If you have the misfortune to be a trustee, then you have to make online payments with for 1041 trusts with EFTPS which is complicated.
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Continue reading â: Mac: Annoying “would like to access data from other apps”You get this warning a lot these days with MacOS Sequoia. What is happening it that if you do not set in Settings > Security > Disk and Privacy > Full Disk Access then this comes up. So be careful what you give the rights too, but for instance Terminal…
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Continue reading â: nvim: The Missing Manual for NeoVim v0.9 2025-03-31Neovim has become such a rich product that even though it is a very fast command-line tool (unlike VS Code), I still use it extensively because you don’t need a mouse. You can do all this in VS Code, but if you want to be that Ferrari 1960s vintage driver…
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Continue reading â: net: Google Shared Drive Missing Manual v0.9 2025-03-31Well, we finally moved from using shared folders to Shared Drives adding a whole new level of permissions confusion. We have a few goals: This turned out to be quite a bit harder than you think. So here’s the missing conceptual manual of what is going on. Shared Drives Need…
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Continue reading â: read: From the CDL Reading Group with Ken LiuWow that group is awesome, but some great short stories You should read them all!
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Continue reading â: vm: Ubuntu on Mac with UTM or LimaWell, I try not to use Docker too much, but for compatibility testing, it is sure nice to have a QEMU like thing that I can bring up and down. UTM is a nice tool for this that uses the hypervisor stack for graphical applications. Quick notes, when you download…
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Continue reading â: fcp: The Mystery of Final Cut Pro CaptionsWell, they finally added automatic caption creation, but of course they are biased towards the apple itt format so nothing much happens. So here is a guide to making captions work:
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Continue reading â: obs: HDR Output not looking greatOK, I’ve been doing a lot of HDR work and it’s been mysterious how to set OBS to do this properly. I tried to do one and the colors were way off, but looking at Reddit, you get to the OBS notes and it says that is it. using the…
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Continue reading â: net: Google Drive Sharing dual layerOK, so we have Google Drive for sharing things and man has it gotten complicated. The problem is that sharing is more restricted now and the default is that you cannot share things with non-workspace members. It is confusing because when you try to share with someone, you set it…
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Continue reading â: dev: ubuntu 22.04 google chrome and asdf strangenessWell, asdf, direnv and the plug asdf-direnv are wonderful when they work, but very mysterious when they don’t. As of today, you need to use my build of asdf-direnv and you also have to do some work to setup it up if you are on a out of date Linux…
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