These are some quick notes, mostly oriented towards US folks living abroad. Assuming you have an iPhone with two SIMs, one from a US carrier (e.g. T-Mobile) and one from a local carrier (eir in Ir...
Jon Postel
I was reminded of Jon by this article in Wired, mentioned in some random Reddit post (and yes, the slug in the URL has a typo in it…). I worked (indirectly) for Jon at ISI for a few years. He was ...
Parkrun
Parkrun (also Parkrun US and the original Parkrun UK) is a fun, low-key, 5k weekly race.
Unifi Controller in a container
Notes for myself to run Unifi controller (and particularly MongoDB) in containers.
Pi-hole in a container
Notes on setting up Pi-hole in a container.
ZSH with dotfiles
Notes for myself on installing standard set of dotfiles.
Automatically Switch Display Input Based on Keyboard
Some scripts to conveniently share a monitor and Bluetooth keyboard between multiple Macs.
Time Machine Backups to Samba Share on ZFS
Notes from setting up a Ubuntu server with ZFS and using it as a server for Time Machine backups.
Home Grown Dynamic DNS
My setup to do dynamic DNS updates to Cloudflare. The package available are too heavyweight or don’t do what I want; it’s simple enough to write my own.
Recover Previous Versions of VS Code Files
If you accidently overwrite a file in VS Code (with uncommitted changes…), you might get lucky and find it in VS Code caches.