November 1, 2025

Goals for 2026

Thinking about 2026 Two overarching goals 1 - Setup a focussed work Focus setup? The thought is putting in place the physical and IT systems to allow focussed work to be done. The current...

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July 16, 2019

Homestead notes

Current thoughts about how to use Homestead for development. Set name variable, otherwise it defaults to homestead (or previously homestead-7) Set hostname variable,...

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July 8, 2019

Spams lessons - part 1

About 20 years ago, I became involved in one of the largest or the largest collection of spams in the world. The spams in question where the forwarded complaints of users of the AOL service. As...

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May 27, 2019

Memory Hogs

I recently purchased a used MacBook Pro with 16 GB of memory. On firing it up for the first time, I realized how memory starved my current and soon to be sold MacBook Air was with only 4GB of...

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