As of the start of Prime day yesterday, the Amazon home page seems to completely freeze up my laptop.
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Simple MySQL backup script
I made a simple bash backup script for the newer MySQL database servers at Cogneato.
I’ve upgraded my Firefox Android install to the new version running GeckoView.
Continue reading post "#3014"I only went a little over my 10GB hot spot limit for my first month on the new plan and the first without T Mobile’s coronavirus related unlimited data upgrade.
Continue reading post "#2959"Watching a streaming movie on Amazon video today, I was disappointed to find it had taken 800-900 MB.
Continue reading post "#2955"It has been a long, weird evening, with a lot of time spent on computer updates and a dead car battery.
Continue reading post "#2916"With T Mobile’s free unlimited data upgrade ending June 30th, but no end in site for my working from home, I upgraded my plan to their “Simply Prepaid Unlimited Plus” level.
Continue reading post "#2911"I’m quite glad to see labels (similar to GMail’s) are finally landing in Fastmail.
Continue reading post "#2897"Today I learned that PHP’s mkdir() with the octal permission argument apparently doesn’t support any value other than 0 in the leftmost octal spot (where setuid, setgid, and sticky bit go).
Homebrew install.sh without root
[Update]The following method no longer seems to work due to changes in the install.sh script as well as locked down permissions in newer OS versions. Because of this and changes to my general setup, I have a new Homebrew setup that uses Homebrew’s untar anywhere method.[/Update]
I installed Homebrew, a Mac package manager, recently on my main computer.
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