Once again I’ve decommissioned the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse and Logi Options+ in favour of the Razer mouse supported by razer-macos drivers and button management by Steermouse.
Like You – A Mindfulness Podcast for Kids
Saturday, September 3, 2022
If you have kids, you and they might enjoy the wonderful Like You – A Mindfulness Podcast for Kids. I’ve been a Patreon supporter for almost as long as Noah Glenn has been producing it. My kids fall asleep listening to Noah almost every night. Like You is a mindfulness podcast for kids. We use breathing, affirmations, music, and imagination to explore feelings, relieve anxiety, encourage self-esteem, and grow empathy, all while having fun!
3D Impression of Tokyo's Subway System
Friday, September 2, 2022
This 3D Version of Tokyo's Subway System Looks Like a Labyrinth of Roller Coasters: …by creating a 3D model of Tokyo’s tangled subway system, one which has brightly colored tubes swooping up and down, running over and around each other like the tracks of one of the craziest roller coasters ever. I’ve appreciated the scheduling efficiency of the Tokyo subway system in the past, but this 3D impression of how all the lines interact is something else.
Ali, 2001 - ★★
Friday, September 2, 2022
The movie needed a more forceful editor.
The latest episode of Hemispheric Views One Prime Plus is something else. Ostensibly we discuss our experience with the new browser, Arc, but we meander into a bunch of other unrelated - but funny - side topics as well. Sign up at OnePrimePlus.com. It’s in the long game!
I’ve never been able to achieve blue-tick status on the bird site, but @neatnik at omg.lol has blessed me with his blue tick. Also, you should definitely buy an account. It’s an awesome service offered at a crazy-low price.
macOS Content Caching Fails to Propogate Security Updates
Monday, August 29, 2022
Last Week on My Mac: Security updates are down again – The Eclectic Light Company: Howard Oakley is doing an amazing job at diagnosing and bringing to light (pardon the pun) issues involving macOS Content Caching Server: Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server, that on 4 August.
Email is not a messaging platform.
Load the email app a couple of times a day, write and respond, and shut it down.
I’ve been monkeying around with websites. Of course I managed to break something. Does anybody know how to configure DNS such that it will redirect a URL to an omg.lol profile page? @maique
Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Watched on Friday August 26, 2022.
My young fella performed at school assembly today. They rocked out to a song about adjectives!
Thanks to Howard Oakley’s article Has Apple fixed recent Software Update problems? – The Eclectic Light Company I can confirm that no, Apple’s Content Caching service is not fixed. All Macs on my local network had out-of-date versions of XProtect. Content caching now disabled.
Great episode of Really Specific Stories podcast with @manton hosted by @martinfeld
Choosing a Twitter Client
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
This article was originally written for the February 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus Update as of August 2022: I have basically settled on Twitterrific on iOS/iPadOS and Twitter on macOS. I don’t love Twitter, but I use the heck out of it for one reason only: following the Australian National Basketball League (@NBL) and the community of passionate fans around it.
Adventures in SoftRAID
Sunday, August 21, 2022
I’ve had an adventure with my OWC Thunderbay 4-disk drive array this week. I’ve emerged the other side, ultimately unscathed, but the journey certainly could have been easier. Let’s take a look. It all started when I reached the capacity of my RAID-5 formatted array of 4 x 2TB drives. The 6TB of storage this provided me was almost full. This array sits in a cupboard connected to a headless M1 mac mini, so all operations need to be managed through screen sharing with Screens or SSH.
A photo from Yardie Creek during our recent break in Exmouth, Western Australia.
Lightyear, 2022 - ★★★½
Monday, August 15, 2022
Incredible animation and a non-stop action adventure, with just enough Pixar feels added.
It is wonderful to be attending the Basketball WA Awards with my wife Hannah Beazley MLA.
I am loving Arc Browser, and I’m not even using the fancy “new” stuff it contains. Just it as a browser is a great experience.
The Rescue, 2021 - ★★★★
Friday, August 12, 2022
An incredible story well told.