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2020
/ Jan 2020

How to control your Apple TV with a TiVo remote

It all started with the story of a swiss company making a better Apple TV remote, and what a bummer
2020
/ Jan 2020

Re-keying every lock in your house all by yourself

A few months ago, I moved into a new house on a couple acres with a few outbuildings. I don&
2020
/ Jan 2020

✅ finished my LED strips for lighting stairs

I've got a long walkway with five stairs going down it leading to my door and everything is
2020
/ Jan 2020

Brian Hull's Disney impressions

I stumbled upon a bunch of videos of a guy named Brian Hull doing incredible voice impressions of disney characters
2019
/ Dec 2019

Making painless guest wifi with QR codes

You ever go to a friend's house, need to send a photo to someone, and realize it'
2019
/ Dec 2019

Puddle & Pile—the app that predicts when your puppy needs to go—is freaking amazing

Last month, my family got a dog. It was our first ever dog after a lifetime of cat ownership. In
2019
/ Dec 2019

Cleaning up my closet/my first networking rack

Here's the before shot of my home DSL modem attached to a Unifi Cloudkey Gen 2 Plus and
2019
/ Nov 2019

My first LED project

A few weeks ago, I stumbled onto a couple interesting videos on YouTube, namely these two: https://www.youtube.com/
2019
/ Nov 2019

Extending Apple's homekit through Homebridge

I've been doing a lot of weekend house projects lately. I started with hours on YouTube watching videos
2019
/ Oct 2019

My first hour with Airpods Pro

Off the bat you should know that I have tried in-ear canal headphones a few times over the last couple
2019
/ Oct 2019

Don't restore from backup (for a bit of a detox)

I'm two weeks into owning my iPhone 11 Pro and I have to say two things have jumped
2019
/ Sep 2019

How to use Instagram on your mac desktop

1. Open Safari, login to Instagram 2. Go to Safari Preferences, under the advanced tab, then enable the Show Develop
2019
/ Sep 2019

Crater Lake rim ride

Crater Lake in southern Oregon is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It's the textbook example
2019
/ Aug 2019

More on remote work

If you caught my earlier post about working remotely, I would highly recommend checking out Scott Hanselman's own
2019
/ Aug 2019

A smarter DND?

You know what basic feature we should rethink on phones? Do Not Disturb. A couple months ago, I went out
2019
/ Aug 2019

Tips from 16 years of working from home

I just read Mike Davidson's great post on remote work advice after a year of it at Invision.
2019
/ Aug 2019

Cheap string LEDs: not bad at all!

These days, pretty much every bar or restaurant with outdoor seating has some string lights set up for mood lighting,
2019
/ Jul 2019

Asshole birds

Fuckin’ Juncos ate all the seed. God, the Scrub Jays are THE WORST! Yeah that hummingbird looks nice but he