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Sunday, October 27, 2024

HomePod, Siri, and Music Store Songs: A Perfect Disaster

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I purchase music outright because I'm old. I often buy from what at least used to be called the iTunes Music Store. The biggest advantag...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Unexpected failure? InvalidOperationException.

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From stackoverflow.com : Taken from MSDN's page on InvalidOperationException: "InvalidOperationException is used in cases when th...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Using Home Depot dowels to finish Ikea furniture

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TL;DR -- If you Ikea stiffed you some 101350 fluted dowels, you can buy 5/16" dowels from Home Depot , 50 for under $4. Depending on...
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

1001 Nights of the " Reflex-Nikkor 500mm F8"

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From the Nikkor - The Thousand and One Nights Collection 's 13th night (ostensibly about the <New> Reflex-Nikkor 500mm F8, which ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Trading git patches "via email"

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Okay, I've had this open in drafts too long. I think it's got most of the info I wanted, so let's cut it loose for when I need i...
Friday, August 23, 2024

How to return any REST coded response (including failures) from .NET Core Web API

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Okay, look, if there's one thing I'm tired of, it's half-baked example code that doesn't anticipate changes needed to push i...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

How does Android make money? (No, I'm asking)

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Grubes on the economics of Android and Chrome : Chrome makes no money at all on its own. It’s just a funnel for Google Search. Android may...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Zwift jersey brag, I guess

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Okay, this is pretty seriously "other stuff", but as I'm watching the end of the Tour de France, I figured I'd note I fina...
Friday, July 05, 2024

Default window sizes in BBEdit

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I've been using BBEdit as my compare tool on macOS for a few years now , but recently noticed that it keeps opening a window that's...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

What's XProtectRemediatorRedPine on macOS?

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I recently had a process called XProtectRemediatorRedPine eating 95% of one CPU core on my MacBook Air when it wasn't plugged in. That ...