Apple’s HomePod: I Am The Weakest Link
Apple’’s HomePod lets you ask Siri to play music and control your home, but you may have to adapt to Siri before Siri will adapt to you.
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apple
Apple’s iOS Security Faustian Dilemma
Apple has a “user-centric” business model but forces iOS users to choose between using the version of iOS they want and getting security updates.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Apple Pay
Credit card compromises and fraud are an epidemic. Here’s how to use Apple Pay to protect your credit card information from being exploited.
All Your iCloud Accounts Are Belong To Us
What do you do when attackers say they’ll reset hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts?
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 18th, 2017
Security, privacy and Internet of Things updates for the week of March 18th 2017: Apple ransom, CIA leaks, Google blacklists Symantec certificates, CIA data ...
How to Safely Update Your Apple Devices
The release of iOS 10 didn’t go smoothly. Here’s how to protect yourself when you update your iOS devices.
iPad Air First Impressions
I headed over to Best Buy first thing Friday morning… they opened at 8AM and handled the iPad Air rollout very nicely. It was raining hard… they gave rese...
Snuglets – Making Magsafe 2 Not Drive Me Insane
When Apple first introduced the MagSafe power adapter connector it felt like a big step forward in an area no other company was making improvements in. MagSa...
No More Printer Rebates from Apple
Apple has long offered a $100 rebate on select printers. It’s something I’ve counseled many Mac buyers to take advantage of. You could get a moderate quality...
Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
A Reason I Like Apple
I don't go to physical Apple retail stores very often but this weekend in New York I needed a mini-displayport to HDMI cable, so we took a walk to the 5t...
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
Apple’s iPod Event on September 9th
Tuesday September 9th 2008 (today as I finish this; I meant to get this out sooner) is a special Apple event called “Let’s Rock” - although they haven’t spec...
security
Apple’s iOS Security Faustian Dilemma
Apple has a “user-centric” business model but forces iOS users to choose between using the version of iOS they want and getting security updates.
Net Neutrality: The Wire Does Not Dictate Its Use
Why does net neutrality matter? Imagine if your electric company managed your power the way your cable company sells TV channels.
So Wifi Isn’t Secure – What Now?
Many individuals and many organizations treat their router and WiFi network as a security perimeter. “The hostile world is outside. The warm, friendly, safe ...
Equifax’ Massive Data Leak and You
Equifax has leaked data on most Americans.
Customer Service and Security: What Not to Do
If you’re a company that may receive security-related reports, the first thing not to do on the customer service front is to make it difficult to report issu...
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 18th, 2017
Security, privacy and Internet of Things updates for the week of March 18th 2017: Apple ransom, CIA leaks, Google blacklists Symantec certificates, CIA data ...
Personal Security Questions Are Bullshit
Personal security questions are not only a terrible user experience, they can also reduce your account’s security rather than enhance it. Let’s explore them ...
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 13th
I’m experimenting with compiling a list of interesting articles each week - I’ll compile a list of articles that caught my eye. I’m trying to keep this quick...
Password Dumps: How To Protect Yourself
By now you’re probably used to reading about web sites getting broken into, exposing millions of accounts. How do you protect yourself and how can developers...
Two Factor Authentication, SMS and NIST
What’s the story with NIST’s recent “ban” of SMS for two factor authentication?
Stream: A Black Box for WordPress Security
You’re searching your blog for spam for the fourth time in the last few days. Not only can’t you figure out how the spammer keeps getting in, you also can’t ...
Strong Unique Passwords and Why I Don’t Use Public Computers
Recently I reported some phishing scam spam coming from a friend’s account - it looked likely that his email account had gotten cracked.
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
entertainment
Omnious Sounding
Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this: It sounds ominous. If I don’t...
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
Futurama: Bender’s Game
1 "Futurama" unfortunately never got the love that "The Simpsons" gets, but I'm still grateful for the fact that Fox gave the show another chance in the fo...
Brian Eno Is Alive and Well in My iPhone
Given the current events in the US (or global) economy, “Bloom” rescues me from continually listening to only chill-out music and Radiohead’s most apocalypti...
Keeping Your Warcraft Addons Up To Date
While I’m on the subject of World of Warcraft, I want to take a moment to mention the software I use to keep the add-ons I use up to date. … The set I u...
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Is Out on November 13th
"World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack" Blizzard has announced that the new expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, will be released on...
David Foster Wallace Has Left the Building
I remember around the time that "Infinite Jest" came out, several of my friends were talking about it. ctan was enraptured by it, read it cover to cover ...
Apple’s iPod Event on September 9th
Tuesday September 9th 2008 (today as I finish this; I meant to get this out sooner) is a special Apple event called “Let’s Rock” - although they haven’t spec...
code
Stop The loop() Insanity!
Learn how to write an Arduino 1 loop() with multiple delays without shooting yourself in the foot.
Please License Your Code
We need to know your intention.
Fixing Rails 5.2 Bus Error on ARMv7/Raspberry Pi
Rails 5.2 apps crash with a bus error on ARMv7 CPUs like the Raspberry Pi. Here’s a quick fix.
Fixing ESP8266mDNS MDNS.queryService() Crashes
Fixing mysterious mDNS crashes on the ESP8266.
CODE: jQuery’s :contains and White Space
Over the weekend I ran into one of those situations where it felt like I had found a bug in a very commonly used portion of a very commonly used piece of so...
Feeling the Love browser extension
I feel love.
Fixing “iOS Simulator failed to install the application”
Occasionally while I’m trying to build an iOS app I’ll get this error when I try to run it:
Whenever I Go Away, I Want to Start Anew…
There’s a thrill for me in the initial exploration of an idea, the initial design of a piece of software or web site, and in learning how to use new tools or...
hardware
ESP32-H2 Coming Soon
Adafruit now has listings for the ESP32-H2-MINI-1 module and ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1. The ESP32-H2 is Espressif’s new CPU that has Thread, Zigbee, Bluetooth 5 and...
ESP32-C6 Reality Check
I was lucky enough to get a couple of ESP32-C6 devkits through AliExpress when Espressif recently made them available. If you’re thinking about getting one t...
The CCS811 Is Not A Carbon Monoxide (CO) Sensor
The CCS811 is sometimes mistakenly sold as a carbon monoxide sensor, which it is not.
Hey Kids, Don’t Leave Your Naked Grill Sensor Out Overnight!
Naked hardware and moisture don’t mix! Duh!
Found: Plantower PMS3003 and PMS5003 Connectors
Plantower’s particle sensors are handy devices but the physical connection to them can be difficult.
Replacement Power Supply For Libratone Zipp
When a wifi speaker’s power supply breaks and the official replacement is stupidly expensive you can find a replacement for the replacement on Amazon.
Raspberry Pi
A small but powerful computer
wordpress
From Wordpress to Jekyll and Beyond
After 14 years it’s time to move on from Wordpress.
Publishing to WordPress from Google Docs
Learn how to publish content created in Google Docs to Wordpress.
Stream: A Black Box for WordPress Security
You’re searching your blog for spam for the fourth time in the last few days. Not only can’t you figure out how the spammer keeps getting in, you also can’t ...
Tech Note: Cloudbusting
My blog runs on a piece of software called Wordpress. I love Wordpress; it’s well designed, easy to use, easy to maintain. It’s good for serving blogs but it...
Eating My Own Dog Food
For a while I’ve been advising people who need simple web sites to use Wordpress. Not just people who want to blog, but people who need a very simple site wi...
LJ Crossposting
I have a bunch of half-written things that I haven’t finished because I haven’t been happy with the state of cross-posting between this blog and Livejournal ...
privacy
So Wifi Isn’t Secure – What Now?
Many individuals and many organizations treat their router and WiFi network as a security perimeter. “The hostile world is outside. The warm, friendly, safe ...
Equifax’ Massive Data Leak and You
Equifax has leaked data on most Americans.
Protect Your Domain Registrations and Privacy
When you register a domain name, you may expose personal information about yourself: your address, phone number email address. Here’s how to protect privacy.
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 18th, 2017
Security, privacy and Internet of Things updates for the week of March 18th 2017: Apple ransom, CIA leaks, Google blacklists Symantec certificates, CIA data ...
Personal Security Questions Are Bullshit
Personal security questions are not only a terrible user experience, they can also reduce your account’s security rather than enhance it. Let’s explore them ...
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 13th
I’m experimenting with compiling a list of interesting articles each week - I’ll compile a list of articles that caught my eye. I’m trying to keep this quick...
macintosh
Snuglets – Making Magsafe 2 Not Drive Me Insane
When Apple first introduced the MagSafe power adapter connector it felt like a big step forward in an area no other company was making improvements in. MagSa...
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
Apple’s iPod Event on September 9th
Tuesday September 9th 2008 (today as I finish this; I meant to get this out sooner) is a special Apple event called “Let’s Rock” - although they haven’t spec...
software
GNU Emacs on Rasperry Pi
For the two people in the world who were wondering this, GNU Emacs runs just fine under Debian on a Raspberry Pi. It doesn’t leave much memory available for ...
Emacs: The Poster Child for Software Bloat
I love Emacs. It’s the editor I grew up with. I’ve been using it for over 30 years. I don’t think I could switch to another editor now if I wanted to. There’...
Whenever I Go Away, I Want to Start Anew…
There’s a thrill for me in the initial exploration of an idea, the initial design of a piece of software or web site, and in learning how to use new tools or...
Showing a Column as a UNIX Timestamp in MySQL
While MySQL has quite an assortment of date and time formats which it supports, I usually find it most convenient to store timestamps as an IN...
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
ios
Apple’s iOS Security Faustian Dilemma
Apple has a “user-centric” business model but forces iOS users to choose between using the version of iOS they want and getting security updates.
How to Safely Update Your Apple Devices
The release of iOS 10 didn’t go smoothly. Here’s how to protect yourself when you update your iOS devices.
Fixing “iOS Simulator failed to install the application”
Occasionally while I’m trying to build an iOS app I’ll get this error when I try to run it:
Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
computers
Please Don’t Get Off My Lawn: Abundance, Scarcity and Problem Solving
This isn’t a “get off my lawn you kids!” story. If anything, it’s the opposite. During my early days in the computer industry we lived in a severely resour...
iPad Air First Impressions
I headed over to Best Buy first thing Friday morning… they opened at 8AM and handled the iPad Air rollout very nicely. It was raining hard… they gave rese...
Tech Note: Cloudbusting
My blog runs on a piece of software called Wordpress. I love Wordpress; it’s well designed, easy to use, easy to maintain. It’s good for serving blogs but it...
Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
wtf
Great Headlines From My Newsfeed
I just have to hope that someone at the BBC got a chuckle when they decided on this excerpt for the article's newsfeed.
WTF Economics
I subscribe to the magazine "Cooking Light". Issues usually have some good recipes when you ignore all the stuff about yoga, aromatherapy and blood pressure...
So You’re Having a Benefit Event…
So - the day of the event - you get a call asking what restaurants will be there. … The caller mentions to you that he tried to email quite a while ago but ...
web
Password Dumps: How To Protect Yourself
By now you’re probably used to reading about web sites getting broken into, exposing millions of accounts. How do you protect yourself and how can developers...
Twitter and Facebook Have Not Killed Their RSS Feeds, Completely
Yesterday there was a fuss about alarming news that Facebook and Twitter had both killed off their RSS feeds (“completely”).
Eating My Own Dog Food
For a while I’ve been advising people who need simple web sites to use Wordpress. Not just people who want to blog, but people who need a very simple site wi...
Omnious Sounding
Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this: It sounds ominous. If I don’t...
itunes
iTunes Hygiene
Instead of working on a site redesign that I have a tight deadline on, I am dealing with a long-standing peeve I’ve had: iTunes hygiene.
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
Apple’s iPod Event on September 9th
Tuesday September 9th 2008 (today as I finish this; I meant to get this out sooner) is a special Apple event called “Let’s Rock” - although they haven’t spec...
iphone
Serious iOS 7 Flaw with iTunes Match and Cellular Data
I ran through most of my month's data allotment in a few hours yesterday afternoon (you can do this at LTE speeds). It was mere minutes between a warning fr...
iPhone Tethering
Free Wifi is great, isn’t it? Except when it’s worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing.
Brian Eno Is Alive and Well in My iPhone
Given the current events in the US (or global) economy, “Bloom” rescues me from continually listening to only chill-out music and Radiohead’s most apocalypti...
tv
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
Futurama: Bender’s Game
1 "Futurama" unfortunately never got the love that "The Simpsons" gets, but I'm still grateful for the fact that Fox gave the show another chance in the fo...
chrome
CODE: Notes on Ember and Ember App Kit
I’ve recently been working with EmberJS, a Javascript framework for building MVC-based web applications. I’m liking it a lot. It feels well thought out, well...
Feeling the Love browser extension
I feel love.
mac
Low Frame Rate in World of Warcraft on a Retina MacBook Pro
World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine's CPU and GPU are quite ...
The Mac Companion: Are You Serious, Iomega?
Over the summer, Iomega announced their latest external hard drive, this one targeted at the Macintosh community: the Mac Companion. The Companion is a very ...
Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
raspberry pi
Fixing Rails 5.2 Bus Error on ARMv7/Raspberry Pi
Rails 5.2 apps crash with a bus error on ARMv7 CPUs like the Raspberry Pi. Here’s a quick fix.
GNU Emacs on Rasperry Pi
For the two people in the world who were wondering this, GNU Emacs runs just fine under Debian on a Raspberry Pi. It doesn’t leave much memory available for ...
Raspberry Pi
A small but powerful computer
iot
The CCS811 Is Not A Carbon Monoxide (CO) Sensor
The CCS811 is sometimes mistakenly sold as a carbon monoxide sensor, which it is not.
Fixing ESP8266mDNS MDNS.queryService() Crashes
Fixing mysterious mDNS crashes on the ESP8266.
Replacement Power Supply For Libratone Zipp
When a wifi speaker’s power supply breaks and the official replacement is stupidly expensive you can find a replacement for the replacement on Amazon.
esp32
ESP32-H2 Coming Soon
Adafruit now has listings for the ESP32-H2-MINI-1 module and ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1. The ESP32-H2 is Espressif’s new CPU that has Thread, Zigbee, Bluetooth 5 and...
ESP32-C6 Reality Check
I was lucky enough to get a couple of ESP32-C6 devkits through AliExpress when Espressif recently made them available. If you’re thinking about getting one t...
Stop The loop() Insanity!
Learn how to write an Arduino 1 loop() with multiple delays without shooting yourself in the foot.
life
On My 50th Birthday
So I’ve finished half a century on the Earth. The word century always sounds impressive. And while fifty years sounds impressive, half a century sounds even ...
Welcome to dot-dot-romkey
And the environment that I work in has changed and become much more complex… where two decades ago a piece of software most likely ran from the command-line,...
amazon
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
music
iTunes Hygiene
Instead of working on a site redesign that I have a tight deadline on, I am dealing with a long-standing peeve I’ve had: iTunes hygiene.
Brian Eno Is Alive and Well in My iPhone
Given the current events in the US (or global) economy, “Bloom” rescues me from continually listening to only chill-out music and Radiohead’s most apocalypti...
ajax
WebDev: jQuery, JSON, IE and Caching
When you bookmark a listing the icon changes from a heart with a plus sign to a heart with a minus sign, the count of the number of times the the listing was...
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
jquery
CODE: jQuery’s :contains and White Space
Over the weekend I ran into one of those situations where it felt like I had found a bug in a very commonly used portion of a very commonly used piece of so...
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
macos x
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
food
Korean Tacos
Since I’ve completely failed to be in the same place as a Korean taco food truck I decided to take a shot at making my own Korean tacos.
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
It takes a little more care though, and takes longer to cook. Steel-cut oatmeal Rolled oats The recipe is a straightforward translation ...
user experience
Priorities
Interesting how Amazon prioritizes use experience. Of course they want to make it easy to shop, right? I can buy something via 1-click without having to ...
recipe
Korean Tacos
Since I’ve completely failed to be in the same place as a Korean taco food truck I decided to take a shot at making my own Korean tacos.
Lean Chicken Chorizo Recipe
I like the flavor of chorizo but I'm not thrilled with its ingredients. Most commercial chorizo is very low quality food and quite unhealthy. It's made wi...
browser
Back to top ↑internet
Net Neutrality: The Wire Does Not Dictate Its Use
Why does net neutrality matter? Imagine if your electric company managed your power the way your cable company sells TV channels.
iPhone Tethering
Free Wifi is great, isn’t it? Except when it’s worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing.
wifi
So Wifi Isn’t Secure – What Now?
Many individuals and many organizations treat their router and WiFi network as a security perimeter. “The hostile world is outside. The warm, friendly, safe ...
iPhone Tethering
Free Wifi is great, isn’t it? Except when it’s worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing.
icloud
All Your iCloud Accounts Are Belong To Us
What do you do when attackers say they’ll reset hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts?
Words of Advice Before Upgrading to iOS 5 and iCloud
Today is a big day for Apple. The iPhone 4S is shipping and Apple is doing one of its biggest set of software updates ever. Today they’ll be releasing iOS 5 ...
emacs
GNU Emacs on Rasperry Pi
For the two people in the world who were wondering this, GNU Emacs runs just fine under Debian on a Raspberry Pi. It doesn’t leave much memory available for ...
Emacs: The Poster Child for Software Bloat
I love Emacs. It’s the editor I grew up with. I’ve been using it for over 30 years. I don’t think I could switch to another editor now if I wanted to. There’...
fun
Machine Learning Baby Photos
Machine Learning is toddling into the world at breakneck speed. Let’s check out its baby photos.
Feeling the Love browser extension
I feel love.
cats
Hey Kids, Don’t Leave Your Naked Grill Sensor Out Overnight!
Naked hardware and moisture don’t mix! Duh!
Down One Cat
Temporarily. Zooty and Rebo are 15 years old now and are starting to show some wear and tear. Rebo is recently on blood pressure medication (older kidne...
pets
Pill Pockets
Now that our cats are becoming elderly, they need some kitty meds. Nothing too serious, but some daily pills, probably more to come.
Down One Cat
Temporarily. Zooty and Rebo are 15 years old now and are starting to show some wear and tear. Rebo is recently on blood pressure medication (older kidne...
javascript
CODE: Notes on Ember and Ember App Kit
I’ve recently been working with EmberJS, a Javascript framework for building MVC-based web applications. I’m liking it a lot. It feels well thought out, well...
CODE: jQuery’s :contains and White Space
Over the weekend I ran into one of those situations where it felt like I had found a bug in a very commonly used portion of a very commonly used piece of so...
power
Replacement Power Supply For Libratone Zipp
When a wifi speaker’s power supply breaks and the official replacement is stupidly expensive you can find a replacement for the replacement on Amazon.
Snuglets – Making Magsafe 2 Not Drive Me Insane
When Apple first introduced the MagSafe power adapter connector it felt like a big step forward in an area no other company was making improvements in. MagSa...
passwords
Password Dumps: How To Protect Yourself
By now you’re probably used to reading about web sites getting broken into, exposing millions of accounts. How do you protect yourself and how can developers...
Strong Unique Passwords and Why I Don’t Use Public Computers
Recently I reported some phishing scam spam coming from a friend’s account - it looked likely that his email account had gotten cracked.
esp8266
Stop The loop() Insanity!
Learn how to write an Arduino 1 loop() with multiple delays without shooting yourself in the foot.
Fixing ESP8266mDNS MDNS.queryService() Crashes
Fixing mysterious mDNS crashes on the ESP8266.
sensors
The CCS811 Is Not A Carbon Monoxide (CO) Sensor
The CCS811 is sometimes mistakenly sold as a carbon monoxide sensor, which it is not.
Found: Plantower PMS3003 and PMS5003 Connectors
Plantower’s particle sensors are handy devices but the physical connection to them can be difficult.
thread
ESP32-H2 Coming Soon
Adafruit now has listings for the ESP32-H2-MINI-1 module and ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1. The ESP32-H2 is Espressif’s new CPU that has Thread, Zigbee, Bluetooth 5 and...
ESP32-C6 Reality Check
I was lucky enough to get a couple of ESP32-C6 devkits through AliExpress when Espressif recently made them available. If you’re thinking about getting one t...
zigbee
ESP32-H2 Coming Soon
Adafruit now has listings for the ESP32-H2-MINI-1 module and ESP32-H2-DevKitM-1. The ESP32-H2 is Espressif’s new CPU that has Thread, Zigbee, Bluetooth 5 and...
ESP32-C6 Reality Check
I was lucky enough to get a couple of ESP32-C6 devkits through AliExpress when Espressif recently made them available. If you’re thinking about getting one t...
blogs
Welcome to dot-dot-romkey
And the environment that I work in has changed and become much more complex… where two decades ago a piece of software most likely ran from the command-line,...
simplify
Welcome to dot-dot-romkey
And the environment that I work in has changed and become much more complex… where two decades ago a piece of software most likely ran from the command-line,...
ipod
Apple’s iPod Event on September 9th
Tuesday September 9th 2008 (today as I finish this; I meant to get this out sooner) is a special Apple event called “Let’s Rock” - although they haven’t spec...
david foster wallace
David Foster Wallace Has Left the Building
I remember around the time that "Infinite Jest" came out, several of my friends were talking about it. ctan was enraptured by it, read it cover to cover ...
in memoriam
David Foster Wallace Has Left the Building
I remember around the time that "Infinite Jest" came out, several of my friends were talking about it. ctan was enraptured by it, read it cover to cover ...
writers
David Foster Wallace Has Left the Building
I remember around the time that "Infinite Jest" came out, several of my friends were talking about it. ctan was enraptured by it, read it cover to cover ...
world of warcraft
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Is Out on November 13th
"World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack" Blizzard has announced that the new expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, will be released on...
uvfood
Working Through a Catalyst View Rendering Problem
I’ve been adding some belated email notifications to UVFood and in the process I ran into a frustrating problem: it wasn’t working at all. … Views are fo...
deal
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
leopard
MacOS X DVDs – Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them
The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost ...
mysql
Showing a Column as a UNIX Timestamp in MySQL
While MySQL has quite an assortment of date and time formats which it supports, I usually find it most convenient to store timestamps as an IN...
unix
Showing a Column as a UNIX Timestamp in MySQL
While MySQL has quite an assortment of date and time formats which it supports, I usually find it most convenient to store timestamps as an IN...
ambient
Brian Eno Is Alive and Well in My iPhone
Given the current events in the US (or global) economy, “Bloom” rescues me from continually listening to only chill-out music and Radiohead’s most apocalypti...
brian eno
Brian Eno Is Alive and Well in My iPhone
Given the current events in the US (or global) economy, “Bloom” rescues me from continually listening to only chill-out music and Radiohead’s most apocalypti...
live+press
LJ Crossposting
I have a bunch of half-written things that I haven’t finished because I haven’t been happy with the state of cross-posting between this blog and Livejournal ...
livejournal
LJ Crossposting
I have a bunch of half-written things that I haven’t finished because I haven’t been happy with the state of cross-posting between this blog and Livejournal ...
dashboard
Offline jQuery Documentation for MacOS X
I don’t always have reliable online access when I’m coding - in particular, I was on a bus today for a couple of hours and didn’t always have Internet access...
cache
WebDev: jQuery, JSON, IE and Caching
When you bookmark a listing the icon changes from a heart with a plus sign to a heart with a minus sign, the count of the number of times the the listing was...
ie
WebDev: jQuery, JSON, IE and Caching
When you bookmark a listing the icon changes from a heart with a plus sign to a heart with a minus sign, the count of the number of times the the listing was...
internet explorer
WebDev: jQuery, JSON, IE and Caching
When you bookmark a listing the icon changes from a heart with a plus sign to a heart with a minus sign, the count of the number of times the the listing was...
json
WebDev: jQuery, JSON, IE and Caching
When you bookmark a listing the icon changes from a heart with a plus sign to a heart with a minus sign, the count of the number of times the the listing was...
dvd
Futurama: Bender’s Game
1 "Futurama" unfortunately never got the love that "The Simpsons" gets, but I'm still grateful for the fact that Fox gave the show another chance in the fo...
futurama
Futurama: Bender’s Game
1 "Futurama" unfortunately never got the love that "The Simpsons" gets, but I'm still grateful for the fact that Fox gave the show another chance in the fo...
ben & jerry's
Free Ice Cream on Election Day
Back to the important things: Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free cones from 5PM to 8PM today (election day). http://www.benjerry.com/features/i_voted/
election
Free Ice Cream on Election Day
Back to the important things: Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free cones from 5PM to 8PM today (election day). http://www.benjerry.com/features/i_voted/
ice cream
Free Ice Cream on Election Day
Back to the important things: Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free cones from 5PM to 8PM today (election day). http://www.benjerry.com/features/i_voted/
new england
So You’re Having a Benefit Event…
So - the day of the event - you get a call asking what restaurants will be there. … The caller mentions to you that he tried to email quite a while ago but ...
doomed
Doomed
Fox News is the most trusted TV news source, with 39.3% of respondents to an IFC survey saying they trusted it most. [From Poll: Interne...
news
Doomed
Fox News is the most trusted TV news source, with 39.3% of respondents to an IFC survey saying they trusted it most. [From Poll: Interne...
battlestar galactica
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
bsg
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
cylons
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
frak
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
abfab
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
absolutely fabulous
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
fox
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
jennifer saunders
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
just no
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
perl
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
update
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
yahoo
Omnious Sounding
Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this: It sounds ominous. If I don’t...
breakfast
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
It takes a little more care though, and takes longer to cook. Steel-cut oatmeal Rolled oats The recipe is a straightforward translation ...
cooking
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
It takes a little more care though, and takes longer to cook. Steel-cut oatmeal Rolled oats The recipe is a straightforward translation ...
oatmeal
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
It takes a little more care though, and takes longer to cook. Steel-cut oatmeal Rolled oats The recipe is a straightforward translation ...
pumpkin
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
It takes a little more care though, and takes longer to cook. Steel-cut oatmeal Rolled oats The recipe is a straightforward translation ...
hypocrisy
Eating My Own Dog Food
For a while I’ve been advising people who need simple web sites to use Wordpress. Not just people who want to blog, but people who need a very simple site wi...
barnes & noble
Back to top ↑nook
Back to top ↑My Inbox Is Not a Todo List
I have 6 pieces of email in my inbox right now, down from somewhere slightly south of a thousand a few days ago. Much of the mail that was cluttering my inbo...
inbox zero
My Inbox Is Not a Todo List
I have 6 pieces of email in my inbox right now, down from somewhere slightly south of a thousand a few days ago. Much of the mail that was cluttering my inbo...
todo
My Inbox Is Not a Todo List
I have 6 pieces of email in my inbox right now, down from somewhere slightly south of a thousand a few days ago. Much of the mail that was cluttering my inbo...
chicken
Lean Chicken Chorizo Recipe
I like the flavor of chorizo but I'm not thrilled with its ingredients. Most commercial chorizo is very low quality food and quite unhealthy. It's made wi...
chorizo
Lean Chicken Chorizo Recipe
I like the flavor of chorizo but I'm not thrilled with its ingredients. Most commercial chorizo is very low quality food and quite unhealthy. It's made wi...
lean
Lean Chicken Chorizo Recipe
I like the flavor of chorizo but I'm not thrilled with its ingredients. Most commercial chorizo is very low quality food and quite unhealthy. It's made wi...
fanboy
A Reason I Like Apple
I don't go to physical Apple retail stores very often but this weekend in New York I needed a mini-displayport to HDMI cable, so we took a walk to the 5t...
firefox
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Back to top ↑same origin policy
Back to top ↑apocalypse
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
backups
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
hosting
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
isp
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
servers
Why I Don’t Self-Host Anymore
I’m at An Event Apart and have just listened to a great presentation by Jeremy Keith on data permanency. He touched on many issues, from technical ones regar...
disinformation
Twitter and Facebook Have Not Killed Their RSS Feeds, Completely
Yesterday there was a fuss about alarming news that Facebook and Twitter had both killed off their RSS feeds (“completely”).
Twitter and Facebook Have Not Killed Their RSS Feeds, Completely
Yesterday there was a fuss about alarming news that Facebook and Twitter had both killed off their RSS feeds (“completely”).
Twitter and Facebook Have Not Killed Their RSS Feeds, Completely
Yesterday there was a fuss about alarming news that Facebook and Twitter had both killed off their RSS feeds (“completely”).
mp3
iTunes Hygiene
Instead of working on a site redesign that I have a tight deadline on, I am dealing with a long-standing peeve I’ve had: iTunes hygiene.
disaster
I Hadn’t Expected It To Be So Dusty
Although I hadn’t expected a flood, either. I usually think of hurricanes sitting off the coast and dumping on Cape Cod and Boston (if they ever get that far...
flooding
I Hadn’t Expected It To Be So Dusty
Although I hadn’t expected a flood, either. I usually think of hurricanes sitting off the coast and dumping on Cape Cod and Boston (if they ever get that far...
irene
I Hadn’t Expected It To Be So Dusty
Although I hadn’t expected a flood, either. I usually think of hurricanes sitting off the coast and dumping on Cape Cod and Boston (if they ever get that far...
caching
Tech Note: Cloudbusting
My blog runs on a piece of software called Wordpress. I love Wordpress; it’s well designed, easy to use, easy to maintain. It’s good for serving blogs but it...
design
The Mac Companion: Are You Serious, Iomega?
Over the summer, Iomega announced their latest external hard drive, this one targeted at the Macintosh community: the Mac Companion. The Companion is a very ...
firewire
The Mac Companion: Are You Serious, Iomega?
Over the summer, Iomega announced their latest external hard drive, this one targeted at the Macintosh community: the Mac Companion. The Companion is a very ...
hard drive
The Mac Companion: Are You Serious, Iomega?
Over the summer, Iomega announced their latest external hard drive, this one targeted at the Macintosh community: the Mac Companion. The Companion is a very ...
usb
The Mac Companion: Are You Serious, Iomega?
Over the summer, Iomega announced their latest external hard drive, this one targeted at the Macintosh community: the Mac Companion. The Companion is a very ...
printers
No More Printer Rebates from Apple
Apple has long offered a $100 rebate on select printers. It’s something I’ve counseled many Mac buyers to take advantage of. You could get a moderate quality...
rebates
No More Printer Rebates from Apple
Apple has long offered a $100 rebate on select printers. It’s something I’ve counseled many Mac buyers to take advantage of. You could get a moderate quality...
hot water
Not Overheating
Some teas like boiling water… some teas like cooler water. Most green teas and oolongs work best with water in the 180 - 185 degree range. Yes, you can use ...
tea
Not Overheating
Some teas like boiling water… some teas like cooler water. Most green teas and oolongs work best with water in the 180 - 185 degree range. Yes, you can use ...
bloat
Emacs: The Poster Child for Software Bloat
I love Emacs. It’s the editor I grew up with. I’ve been using it for over 30 years. I don’t think I could switch to another editor now if I wanted to. There’...
tacos
Korean Tacos
Since I’ve completely failed to be in the same place as a Korean taco food truck I decided to take a shot at making my own Korean tacos.
embedded
Raspberry Pi
A small but powerful computer
nerd
GNU Emacs on Rasperry Pi
For the two people in the world who were wondering this, GNU Emacs runs just fine under Debian on a Raspberry Pi. It doesn’t leave much memory available for ...
magazines
WTF Economics
I subscribe to the magazine "Cooking Light". Issues usually have some good recipes when you ignore all the stuff about yoga, aromatherapy and blood pressure...
subscriptions
WTF Economics
I subscribe to the magazine "Cooking Light". Issues usually have some good recipes when you ignore all the stuff about yoga, aromatherapy and blood pressure...
ad
Back to top ↑online
Back to top ↑bbc
Great Headlines From My Newsfeed
I just have to hope that someone at the BBC got a chuckle when they decided on this excerpt for the article's newsfeed.
development
Fixing “iOS Simulator failed to install the application”
Occasionally while I’m trying to build an iOS app I’ll get this error when I try to run it:
xcode
Fixing “iOS Simulator failed to install the application”
Occasionally while I’m trying to build an iOS app I’ll get this error when I try to run it:
fix
Low Frame Rate in World of Warcraft on a Retina MacBook Pro
World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine's CPU and GPU are quite ...
geek
Low Frame Rate in World of Warcraft on a Retina MacBook Pro
World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine's CPU and GPU are quite ...
warcraft
Low Frame Rate in World of Warcraft on a Retina MacBook Pro
World of Warcraft has been running frustratingly slowly on my Retina MacBook Pro. Though it has a lot of pixels to push the machine's CPU and GPU are quite ...
hearts
Feeling the Love browser extension
I feel love.
duh
CODE: jQuery’s :contains and White Space
Over the weekend I ran into one of those situations where it felt like I had found a bug in a very commonly used portion of a very commonly used piece of so...
bug
Serious iOS 7 Flaw with iTunes Match and Cellular Data
I ran through most of my month's data allotment in a few hours yesterday afternoon (you can do this at LTE speeds). It was mere minutes between a warning fr...
cellular
Serious iOS 7 Flaw with iTunes Match and Cellular Data
I ran through most of my month's data allotment in a few hours yesterday afternoon (you can do this at LTE speeds). It was mere minutes between a warning fr...
data
Serious iOS 7 Flaw with iTunes Match and Cellular Data
I ran through most of my month's data allotment in a few hours yesterday afternoon (you can do this at LTE speeds). It was mere minutes between a warning fr...
iOS 7
Serious iOS 7 Flaw with iTunes Match and Cellular Data
I ran through most of my month's data allotment in a few hours yesterday afternoon (you can do this at LTE speeds). It was mere minutes between a warning fr...
magsafe
Snuglets – Making Magsafe 2 Not Drive Me Insane
When Apple first introduced the MagSafe power adapter connector it felt like a big step forward in an area no other company was making improvements in. MagSa...
notebook
Snuglets – Making Magsafe 2 Not Drive Me Insane
When Apple first introduced the MagSafe power adapter connector it felt like a big step forward in an area no other company was making improvements in. MagSa...
spam
Today’s Best Spam
These spammers are ahead of my entire organization in attempting to protect my brand! I’ll definitely send this to my CEO.
spam spam
Today’s Best Spam
These spammers are ahead of my entire organization in attempting to protect my brand! I’ll definitely send this to my CEO.
spam spam spam egg and spam
Today’s Best Spam
These spammers are ahead of my entire organization in attempting to protect my brand! I’ll definitely send this to my CEO.
ipad
iPad Air First Impressions
I headed over to Best Buy first thing Friday morning… they opened at 8AM and handled the iPad Air rollout very nicely. It was raining hard… they gave rese...
humor
BBC’s Best Typo
With all the flap last week about Facebook buying WhatsApp for a stupidly large amount of money, I think most people missed BBC’s awesome typo on their first...
ember
CODE: Notes on Ember and Ember App Kit
I’ve recently been working with EmberJS, a Javascript framework for building MVC-based web applications. I’m liking it a lot. It feels well thought out, well...
authentication
Two Factor Authentication, SMS and NIST
What’s the story with NIST’s recent “ban” of SMS for two factor authentication?
government
Two Factor Authentication, SMS and NIST
What’s the story with NIST’s recent “ban” of SMS for two factor authentication?
two factor
Two Factor Authentication, SMS and NIST
What’s the story with NIST’s recent “ban” of SMS for two factor authentication?
abundance
Please Don’t Get Off My Lawn: Abundance, Scarcity and Problem Solving
This isn’t a “get off my lawn you kids!” story. If anything, it’s the opposite. During my early days in the computer industry we lived in a severely resour...
problem solving
Please Don’t Get Off My Lawn: Abundance, Scarcity and Problem Solving
This isn’t a “get off my lawn you kids!” story. If anything, it’s the opposite. During my early days in the computer industry we lived in a severely resour...
scarcity
Please Don’t Get Off My Lawn: Abundance, Scarcity and Problem Solving
This isn’t a “get off my lawn you kids!” story. If anything, it’s the opposite. During my early days in the computer industry we lived in a severely resour...
sofware
How to Safely Update Your Apple Devices
The release of iOS 10 didn’t go smoothly. Here’s how to protect yourself when you update your iOS devices.
updates
How to Safely Update Your Apple Devices
The release of iOS 10 didn’t go smoothly. Here’s how to protect yourself when you update your iOS devices.
databases
Password Dumps: How To Protect Yourself
By now you’re probably used to reading about web sites getting broken into, exposing millions of accounts. How do you protect yourself and how can developers...
flash
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 13th
I’m experimenting with compiling a list of interesting articles each week - I’ll compile a list of articles that caught my eye. I’m trying to keep this quick...
homekit
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of February 13th
I’m experimenting with compiling a list of interesting articles each week - I’ll compile a list of articles that caught my eye. I’m trying to keep this quick...
ux
Personal Security Questions Are Bullshit
Personal security questions are not only a terrible user experience, they can also reduce your account’s security rather than enhance it. Let’s explore them ...
cia
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 18th, 2017
Security, privacy and Internet of Things updates for the week of March 18th 2017: Apple ransom, CIA leaks, Google blacklists Symantec certificates, CIA data ...
wikileaks
Security, Privacy and IoT: The Week of March 18th, 2017
Security, privacy and Internet of Things updates for the week of March 18th 2017: Apple ransom, CIA leaks, Google blacklists Symantec certificates, CIA data ...
2fa
All Your iCloud Accounts Are Belong To Us
What do you do when attackers say they’ll reset hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts?
ransom
All Your iCloud Accounts Are Belong To Us
What do you do when attackers say they’ll reset hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts?
customer service
Customer Service and Security: What Not to Do
If you’re a company that may receive security-related reports, the first thing not to do on the customer service front is to make it difficult to report issu...
science
Science Is Happening All Around You
For Earth Day: What do you imagine when you think of “science”? White coats, test tubes, beakers? Crazy hair and bowties? Musty books of facts?
google docs
Publishing to WordPress from Google Docs
Learn how to publish content created in Google Docs to Wordpress.
apple pay
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Apple Pay
Credit card compromises and fraud are an epidemic. Here’s how to use Apple Pay to protect your credit card information from being exploited.
credit card
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Apple Pay
Credit card compromises and fraud are an epidemic. Here’s how to use Apple Pay to protect your credit card information from being exploited.
financial
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Apple Pay
Credit card compromises and fraud are an epidemic. Here’s how to use Apple Pay to protect your credit card information from being exploited.
fraud
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Apple Pay
Credit card compromises and fraud are an epidemic. Here’s how to use Apple Pay to protect your credit card information from being exploited.
dns
Protect Your Domain Registrations and Privacy
When you register a domain name, you may expose personal information about yourself: your address, phone number email address. Here’s how to protect privacy.
domain
Protect Your Domain Registrations and Privacy
When you register a domain name, you may expose personal information about yourself: your address, phone number email address. Here’s how to protect privacy.
machine learning
Machine Learning Baby Photos
Machine Learning is toddling into the world at breakneck speed. Let’s check out its baby photos.
data breach
Equifax’ Massive Data Leak and You
Equifax has leaked data on most Americans.
encryption
So Wifi Isn’t Secure – What Now?
Many individuals and many organizations treat their router and WiFi network as a security perimeter. “The hostile world is outside. The warm, friendly, safe ...
speaker
Replacement Power Supply For Libratone Zipp
When a wifi speaker’s power supply breaks and the official replacement is stupidly expensive you can find a replacement for the replacement on Amazon.
architecture
Net Neutrality: The Wire Does Not Dictate Its Use
Why does net neutrality matter? Imagine if your electric company managed your power the way your cable company sells TV channels.
homepod
Apple’s HomePod: I Am The Weakest Link
Apple’’s HomePod lets you ask Siri to play music and control your home, but you may have to adapt to Siri before Siri will adapt to you.
siri
Apple’s HomePod: I Am The Weakest Link
Apple’’s HomePod lets you ask Siri to play music and control your home, but you may have to adapt to Siri before Siri will adapt to you.
mdns
Fixing ESP8266mDNS MDNS.queryService() Crashes
Fixing mysterious mDNS crashes on the ESP8266.
arduino
Stop The loop() Insanity!
Learn how to write an Arduino 1 loop() with multiple delays without shooting yourself in the foot.
blend
November Roast: Timor-based Coffee Blend
I roast my own coffee.
coffee
November Roast: Timor-based Coffee Blend
I roast my own coffee.
roasting
November Roast: Timor-based Coffee Blend
I roast my own coffee.
air quality
Found: Plantower PMS3003 and PMS5003 Connectors
Plantower’s particle sensors are handy devices but the physical connection to them can be difficult.
cable
Found: Plantower PMS3003 and PMS5003 Connectors
Plantower’s particle sensors are handy devices but the physical connection to them can be difficult.
connector
Found: Plantower PMS3003 and PMS5003 Connectors
Plantower’s particle sensors are handy devices but the physical connection to them can be difficult.
pms5003
Found: Plantower PMS3003 and PMS5003 Connectors
Plantower’s particle sensors are handy devices but the physical connection to them can be difficult.
case
Hey Kids, Don’t Leave Your Naked Grill Sensor Out Overnight!
Naked hardware and moisture don’t mix! Duh!
electronics
Hey Kids, Don’t Leave Your Naked Grill Sensor Out Overnight!
Naked hardware and moisture don’t mix! Duh!
jekyll
From Wordpress to Jekyll and Beyond
After 14 years it’s time to move on from Wordpress.
blog
From Wordpress to Jekyll and Beyond
After 14 years it’s time to move on from Wordpress.
components
Where To Find And Buy Electronics Components
Finding parts can be challenging even in the best of times. Here are some helpful resources.
wifi6
ESP32-C6 Reality Check
I was lucky enough to get a couple of ESP32-C6 devkits through AliExpress when Espressif recently made them available. If you’re thinking about getting one t...