Audio Driver Removal in Sequoia 15

I use some Skullcandy Smokin’ Buds with my work Mac running Sequoia 15 for use with meetings at times — but whenever they disconnect the audio driver reverts to one of the virtual audio drivers I had installed (and wasn’t using) for screen recordings. So, I could be in a meeting, disconnect my earbuds and […]

Infrastructure/AI – Decentralized

Have started a project building decentralized cloud and AI infrastructure. I’ve been working on several projects for the last several years, mostly on job sites, and feel my work/family life is at a good balance as to where I can start producing off hours tech again. I’ve always just been a builder, very simply, and […]

Meetings and Studies and Bizzies

I haven’t been at this in a while although I have a backlog of things to write about that I have been accumulating from my readings and talks with other devs associates over the last few years.  Unfortunately some of it is timely technical material and the relevancy has probably fallen by the wayside. One […]

Hard Work

”The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” – Mark Twain. I was reading through some Code Newbie tweets and was quite impressed with the enthusiasm of potential developers who had little, if any, work experience.  Well I’ve got some news for them. Know that stress you are having at finding your first […]

Meetings Greetings – ECTech Future

Last I was here I was chugging through some examples in my Eatup on a few different JVM related languages.  Went well. So after that I dropped the ECTech Meetup subscription, it was not fruitful and the tech scene had gotten taken over in my area by non-Java lovers doing things that don’t pertain to […]

Ant, IntelliJ, and Eclipse

And it’s way in the future and here we are again arguing about which IDE is better: IntelliJ or Eclipse.  It never goes away.  And NetBeans is still the choice of newbs, and gets cast aside for enterprise work.  Personally I never look at it so it’s not in this discussion.  We are talking PRACTICE. […]

Git Tags Local And Remote: Be. Careful.

If you are a daily developer like me, but not a release manager, getting called on to do release activities can be a frustrating thing.  One of those things can be believing your tool’s view. Be careful – if you’ve updated your git tags – local SourceTree will show git tags at a spot that […]

Tooling for localstorage

Localstorage is a newer way to store data locally in a browser, kind of like a cookie.  It is supposed to have a much easier interface than cookies and can do JSON.  Another developer I know was using this and she was using localstorage to track local data  for some dynamic web interactions.  Nothing will […]

Disk Solutions 2016

My brother is a teacher and he sent me a text and a pic of a broken 500gb external drive he uses for simple backups.  He was asking the questions a lot of us are asking these days: how to store all of our data, short term/accessible and long term. When I think about the […]

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