Author: sjwillis
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2019-03-06 17.55.43
Cool to hear @manoushz covering the decentralized web. Or what I like to call “2006.” Also didn’t realize that Mozilla was in the podcast biz. Anyway, here’s Manoush give her a listen on IRL.
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2019-03-06 16.06.43
Just had to restart ntp as it was causing a CPU spike at 100% for hours. It’s like that time the really quiet kid in class all of a sudden has a total freakout.
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2019-03-06 14.54.38
This #yeti insulated mug has really raised my oatmeal game.
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Securing websites with a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt
In trying to harden my WordPress install that’s hosted on Linode I decided to enable https for encrypting the login page. At first I just went with the old self-signed certificate route and it was fine but boy did I have to jump through some hoops to get iOS/my iPhone to play nicely. Then I…
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2019-03-04 17.29.17
Playing with micro.blog and sunlit.
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Air Freshener and Vacuums. That’s Basically How This N.J. Landfill Is Cleaning Up Its Stench. | NJ.com
I think this explains why the stink is getting better!
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Paradigm PDR subwoofer repair
TL;DR, if your paradigm PDR-10 isn’t powering on automatically, check the fuse. It can be easily accessed by removing the back panel of the subwoofer. Sunday morning and I had the house to myself for a few hours so decided to listen to my favorite recording of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. Firing up the 3rd and…
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Amazon Dash button to call an Applescript
The other day Amazon put several of their Amazon Dash buttons on sale for $1.99. I picked up a few. The first project I tackled was to get a Dash button to let everyone in the house know that the dog has been fed. This was pretty easy. Someone feeds the dog and presses the…
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Charlie Parr – Jaybird
I like the hypnotic quality of the instrumental (National resonator guitar) that leads up to the very short lyric part (which is great in its own right). Feels like a combination of atmospheric and folk at the same time. Not that they’re mutually exclusive but listen and you’ll see what I mean. Here’s a live…
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Old School Mac
Spent a lot of time yesterday waiting for sql inserts to load and thought, hmm let me change my desktop background image. From there it was all down hill. Rabbit hole after rabbit hole, looking for vintage Mac icons. I even resucitated DragThing, forgot what a great application it is. Anyway, back to work.