Choosing a place to travel for a week or two is not usually a big challenge. With tens of thousands of awesome places to go to, it is likely that many will be equally satisfying, give or take whatever fate may throw at you. I won’t say it is easy to choose, but rather that […]
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You shall soon all be able to see 12 mb photos on this blog! Yes, I finally decided I was sick of 2 mb photo uploads, and upped the level. It was slightly complicated, which is why I haven’t done it before. I am posting the details for future reference.
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Having a server at home or even at an office is so old school. All the cool kids host their servers in the clouds somewhere. Even this blog is hosted in the cloud, or rather an ocean, Digital Ocean. Of course, quite a lot of the ‘cloud, cloud, cloud!’ hosting chants come from people with
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I really like buying computers. Or perhaps more accurately, I really like researching to buy a computer – it is satisfyingly quantifiable. Since I already have two perfectly good laptops, and feel I should wait for the release of new RTX 3xxx series graphics cards anyway, I need a different kind of computer to buy.
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Sewing has never been a particularly strong hobby of mine. The actual sewing is easy enough, but all the other parts – sizing, cutting fabric, and so on, make it all terribly difficult. Still, here we have me investing a few hours after which I felt immensely satisfied. Something broken was made a useful tool
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This release represents several months of fairly hard work for me. It even has a pretty, if simple documentation website that you can check out here. It features quite a number of bug fixes, including several rather critical ones that fixed cross validation not actually cross validating. As always, my biggest focus was on data
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My largest and grandest outdoor project to date, I give you: a dam! Now, first, let’s be clear. This is a check dam. So not Hoover Dam, but something smaller meant for water to go over. The general purpose is to slow the water. In low water flow, water will pool behind and gradually be
VPNs are hitting the mainstream with the spread of work from home, caused by coronavirus. I am personally a major fan of remote work, and am glad the virus is finally pushing conservative corporations to embrace and adapt to the technology. Stackoverflow had an interesting article on scaling their OpenVPN to embrace their masses of
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Once upon a time, there was no valley, no ravine, no house, and no driveway. Between 30,000 and 15,000 years ago, glaciers reached their maximum extent covering much of North America. As the glaciers melted, they formed a massive lake around 13,000 years ago called Lake Agassiz. Over roughly the next three thousand years this
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My first road bike was a Motobecane Lechampion Titanium with Ultegra groupset that my dad liked so much that he bought a second one – that one with SRAM Force mechanical. My bike was given away a few years ago to a friend of a friend, a pastor who needed a decent bike for commuting
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