NOTE: This is based on a GitHub repo at https://github.com/swizzlevixen/Mac-Server-Reliability which may contain updates from what is written here. Please Check my GitHub, or comment here, if you encounter any errors. This is a collection of helpful notes, and a suite of scripts written for my Mac mini M2 server, that help with server reliability, …
For thanksgiving this year, I made two cocktails for pre-dinner drinks. Here are the full recipes. Flannel Shirt A recipe from Jeffrey Morgenthaler, this whisky and apple cocktail with spiced notes tastes like Thanksgiving in a glass. 13⁄4 oz/50 ml scotch whisky 11⁄2 oz/45 ml fresh apple cider 1⁄2 oz/15 ml Averna amaro 1⁄4 oz/7.5 …
If you received a holiday card from us this year, your card features a unique collection of snowflakes that was drawn especially for you by a robot (with a very generous helping of assistance from a real live human being). The particular set of snowflakes, their position, and rotation were uniquely generated for each card …
As companies start to decide that sometimes it is better for them to remove access to media that you have “purchased” — I thought it would be good to share how I manage my media at home. This is a living document that I plan to update with more details and better techniques, as I …
This is more to remind myself of how to do it — it may not be 100% complete, or exactly fit your needs! I’m going to assume that you have the Docker package installed, and a Docker container running on the Synology NAS, serving http content on a port that is not 80 or 443. …
Reverse proxy a domain to a Docker container on Synology NAS DSM Read More »
I used to live near DC and went to the Uptown theatre there a lot (sadly, now closed, due to the pandemic). I just came across this clipping I saved while sorting and tossing old papers. It’s from Sunday, January 29, 1995, in The Washington Post, talking about how their old vertical-strip Cinerama screen was …
I was really trying to make that Connecticut Yankee reference work, but it just wasn’t happening. As I write this, it’s one year to the day that I was laid off from my job as the in-house video producer/editor at The Omni Group, a small software company in Seattle, WA. The pandemic happened, my wife …
