A blog about things that interest me.
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MoogFest 2016 – Day 1
This is my first time at MoogFest (and I’ve been dying to go since I first heard about it a few years back). This year is the first year that it is downtown Durham, and they are doing it up right! I ended up getting the VIP Engineer setup, so I can make my own…
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Why do routers suck so much?
I’ve had a wireless network in my house since about 2001, and in these 15 years.. I’ve noticed that the quality of routers has declined a lot. I don’t know if this is caused by my ISP, or by the routers themselves. When I first setup my house, I actually had a dial up modem…
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The joys of work related travel
I can’t sleep on planes anymore. This is a big problem when traveling to Europe, as you almost always have a redeye, which to me means working thru the night on the plane, and then trying to get a hotel to let me do an early check-in, so I can shower, and perhaps catch a…
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Apple Watch Notifications
One of the biggest benefits that most people use the Apple Watch (and I would assume any smart watch) for is notifications. I am beginning to wonder if I have nerve problems in my wrists. The reason I say this is that I don’t feel the notifications very often, even though I have the watch…
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Delay in App Update and Thoughts on Drones/Robots
Well, it seems that if you upgrade your development mac to a Beta version of OS X, the App Store won’t let you submit an update to your app. While I understand the limitations in the past, that if you used a beta version of the compiler the app could not be submitted, this one…