Blogging OSCon 2011: Day 1 Tutorials
It is 2011 and I have decided to start a blog. That is a term coined by my friend Peter Merholz which means a “web log” or “online journal.” As you can see, Peter has been blogging perhaps since the...
View ArticleBlogging OSCon Day 2: Node Day
In which I learned to stop worrying and love the Node.js. During Node Day I was able to connect with real-world examples of people running Node in production, talking about why they chose Node, and how...
View ArticleGamification Links to Get You Started
At the September 2011 GLP conference, I promised people some links on Gamification. These will hopefully get you headed in the right direction. Jane McGonigal – Reality is Broken at Amazon – This is...
View ArticleA Clean, Usable Facebook
Updated Aug 19, 2012 – Re-enabled header, removed groups photos specifically Updated Aug 16, 2012 – removed “Pages and Ads” section Updated Aug 8, 2012 – liberate tuteme ex inferis – added javascript I...
View ArticleVMware Fusion Networking Tips and Tricks
Overview VMware Fusion’s networking configuration is a bit obscure and it is difficult to find information about it on the ‘net. I usually only need to achieve the following bits of config change, and...
View ArticleRemote linux-based Time Machine using netatalk instead of smb
My large file server once was able to act as a Time Machine provider over-the-air, back before Apple disabled the ability to use Samba shares as Time Machine disks. However, following a few simple...
View ArticleTwitter Embedded Timelines on self-hosted WordPress
Quick tip for hosting Twitter embedded timelines on a self-hosted WordPress. You will need a mere two links: Twitter Timeline Widget The Jetpack plugin The Jetpack plugin brings an array of cool...
View ArticleReplacing drives with mdadm
Simple, but very helpful. SATA hotswap drive in mdadm RAID array. I usually am just swapping out failed drives, which is pretty simple when you are running a spare. However, to increase the size of the...
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I did not invent Bitcoin
Despite LinkedIn’s recent claims, I am not the inventor of Bitcoin. @c_r_w @KeenyLing According to LinkedIn, you did… pic.twitter.com/skdZcGSVzX — Chris Burnor (@chrisburnor) December 10, 2015 In...
View Article“Personal is not the same as important.”
This juxtaposition of two news stories struck me today: Upgraded LIGO detectors spot gravitational waves. With Quartz’s App, You Don’t Read the News. You Chat With It. On the one hand, a machine...
View Articlespeedtest-easy released!
Want to see if your ISP is providing the service they promised and don’t care about “scientific methodology?” Use speedtest-easy! This was a project meant to get me back into the coding game, to play...
View ArticleGood Old Disk Utility
If you have been sadly struggling with the new Apple Disk Utility software, I can confirm the instructions on this page work to restore the old Disk Utility. I can make no claims as to the reliability...
View ArticleA Better Python strftime / strptime Table
I present two tables that reformat the Python strptime, strftime documentation. The first is a short table with the most useful directives, the second is a longer table with all of the directives. This...
View ArticleLVM, mdadm, and partitioning.
This is a mind-dump after an excruciatingly mind-numbing week. Somehow, with a FreeDOS installer USB I managed to accidentally corrupt the LVM data on my RAID array. This thing has files on it that go...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Little Snitch first-run
I finally got around to purchasing and installing Little Snitch today. I should have expected this, but upon first launch (after rebooting the computer) Little Snitch went crazy with the snitchin’. A...
View ArticleDevXCon 2017: Thoughts and Impressions
Hopefully you were able to attend DevXCon 2017 in person this year. If not, I hope the following acts as a tour guide to the speakers’ presentations. Please keep in mind that all of my reviews are...
View ArticleLink Round-up: ICOs and Ponzi Schemes
Last week, the Brave browser company raised $35MM in funding through an ICO. Which leads to the very obvious question, “what the hell is an ICO?” And, as you dig deeper into this question, the...
View ArticleBasic Open Source Collaboration on Github
A couple of weeks ago I encouraged a college student to make his project open source and post it on Github (or Gitlab or Bitbucket or whatever). What had not occurred to me is that this person had...
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Film Review: Sweet Smell of Success, Soylent Green, The Conversation, Z.P.G.
Constituting the movies we watched this weekend. Sweet Smell Of Success (1957) Seen it before some time ago, loved it this viewing. We watched it as part of the Criterion Channel’s Starring Burt...
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