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OK, I thought I had beat this one, but now it looks like there are more issues, but in tuning our Unifi network I was working on two issues: Apple devices sometimes will not connect. If you turn on all the goodies with Wifi, then iOS clients will suddenly report…

Ok with those preliminaries out of the way how do you get a GPU instance up and running and have it work easily. There are a few steps. The main issue are when you are thinking about this that there are 3.5 different ways to do things these days and…

Well in the world of Infrastructure as Code, the idea is that you try not to use the graphical interface and instead use the command line. Put it in scripts and other tools. So here are the basics for doing this with Google Cloud Platform. The nice thing is that…

It does seem that GCP is somewhat simpler than AWS (but not as simple as Digital Ocean) for sure. We just got some GCP Credits through their startup program and it is a little confusing how to get it and use it, so some notes: A startup can sign up…

This is one of the more annoying problems. With iOS you can set dark mode for the browser, but not for Mac. Instead, there are two utilities that cost money to do this. Dark Eyes for instance only works for five sites. The only solution seems to be to pay…

Ok, I spent way too much time like hours on this bug. But I’ve gotten to the point where I can fork a repo and create a new website just by adding to new files with Unsplash. But I hit a really confusing problem that drove me crazy. The problem…

Well, there are so many ways to use server less functions and AWS Lambdas are the biggest way. If you are deploying these, there are also literally a dozen ways to do that. The simplest thing to do is to upload the Lambda and then use the AWS console to…

Ok, this has to be so confusing, but there are times when you are in a bash script and you want some variables to be substituted and some that are not. The easy case if when you want double quote inside a double quote, this is used when you are…

Well, it’s been a long time, but git has got to be amongst the most mysterious of all software tools. I’ve spent the last five years going through tutorials and most of them are obsolete. The git command is undergoing really significant improvement and lots of the confusing things are…

Ok, more stuff for developers, this is about getting Typescript to run with Vim. While many people are using VSCode, I guess the muscle memory and speed of Vi (vee-eye not vaay) are just too much an attraction, so here is as how to get the environment working right. Installing…