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#latergram: Wild Birds at the Detroit Zoo, April 2024
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#latergram: Bird Photos from Kensington Metropark, July 2025
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A Tool for Working with Git Worktrees
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Setting Up & Testing Spotlight + Samba + Elasticsearch
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Getting Good Results from Claude Code: Writing Good Prompts
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New Derivative of my Ubiquiti Cloud Key 3.5" HDD Adapter
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LLM + MCP Use Case: GitHub Actions Workflow Updates
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Celebrating 250(+) Public GitHub Repositories
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LLM Q&A Technique: Context Priming
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Ask Claude Code to fix CI
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Give your LLM Coding Tools Their Own Tools
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Teaser for upcoming Claude Code posts
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Getting Good Results from Claude Code
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Navigating and Rewriting Legacy Systems
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An improved nginx_ensite script
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Quick Devops Tool: gha-secrets-setup
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How I share Bird Buddy photos online
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A Lychee photo library tool for titling photos
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Avoid unbounded inboxes; avoid stress
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Recommendation: Microphone Setup for BirdNET-Pi
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feedfilter: an RSS feed postprocessing tool
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I vibe-coded an AI photo organizer for Lychee
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Use Your Type System
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CO2 Monitoring and Alerting with Aranet4 + an4mon
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Announcing the DzSolarized VS Code theme
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Functional Documentation
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Neat Image noise profiles for the Sigma sd Quattro H
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birdbath.tube
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Trying to remind myself that I don't have to do everything today.
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Setting up a dev env for Lychee
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🙄
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A rule of thumb, that I need to keep in mind, is that it will take about the same amount of time to edit photos as I spent shooting them.
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for no particular reason other than I think it's fun,
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flickr-rss
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I've long been worried that Apple will drop support for AppleScript automation in macOS updates, or at least allow it to decay into a horrible broken state.
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A new feature, completed —
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A new feature, continued —
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A new feature appears —
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How to rsync with sudo on both sides
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Updated instructions for installing my Debian package repositories
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Host Inventory for a (not-) Homelab
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Tips on Brazing Copper and Stainless Steel
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Someone please Photoshop a “Phantom of the Opera” mask onto this grackle for me
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RIP: Aircraft Radar Skill for Amazon Alexa
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Some TODOs for the new site
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Great Moments in Modern Apple User Experience Design
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Know Your Birds: Red-Headed Woodpecker
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My eBird Profile
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More Severance Michigan Connections
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A Selection of Complex CSS Selectors
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Sunset over Canyonlands National Park, viewed from BLM's Needles Overlook in Utah.
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Birds in Moab and Arches & Canyonlands National Parks
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Brief Review: Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD
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My (Only) Two Complaints about the Canon 10x42 L IS WP Binoculars
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Automating Ghost Routes & Redirects Deployment
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Dust Caps for Oxygen/Acetylene Hoses
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Solar Water Preheater Goals & Design Considerations
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A migration to Ghost from Jekyll
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Some new DNS-related tools
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Everything I know about the YK-1000H NTP Server
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Cloning Raspberry Pi SD cards
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Faking the fan rotor lock signal in a Tripp Lite SU1000RTXLCD2U UPS
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Letter of Recommendation: Quality Binoculars
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Freeing disk space on GitHub Actions runners
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Improved low-battery shutoff for my DIY Ego-powered 12V supply
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Fixing Ego batteries in a low-voltage "defective" state
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Making a Docker container depend on a disk being mounted
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Moving fake-hwclock to a separate partition on a read-only Raspberry Pi
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Raspberry Pi Use Cases
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Letter of Recommendation: Where to start with Alastair Reynolds
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Keeping a SMB share mounted on macOS (version 2)
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Monitoring for NAS data corruption on ext4 with cshatag
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Photographing an unusual aurora in southeastern Michigan
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Linux: start an mdraid check even though bash's noclobber is set
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Alfred workflows for searching Bear notes and Docker Hub images
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Some recent bird photos
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Pi Reliability: Reduce writes to your SD card
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The 12v portable power supply Ego needs to make
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Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem
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Setting net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max on Ubuntu 22.04
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Pi Reliability over WiFi: 'Temporary failure in name resolution'
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Keeping a SMB share mounted on macOS (and alerting when it does down)
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More Koyaanisqatsi desktop wallpaper (sunrise clouds this time)
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Socket organizers, end caps, and 3D-printed friction fits
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Making 3D-printed end caps for sharp aluminum extrusions
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Blocking disposable email domains in Mastodon
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Reliable WiFi for the Bambu X1C 3D printer
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Desert stills from Koyaanisqatsi as desktop wallpaper
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Automated generator load-shedding for the house
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Fixing bad design with a label maker
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OpenList is no longer available in the Chrome Web Store
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Recycling a pallet into an Adirondack-ish-style footrest
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Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network
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Setting up KVM virtual machines using a bridge network on an Ubuntu host
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How to move Docker's data directory from /var/lib
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RIP: SaveTabs Chrome Extension
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RIP: OpenList Chrome Extension
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Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
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Stop using the Raspberry Pi's SD card for swap
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Remote logging for easier Raspberry Pi debugging
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Raspberry Pi SD cards: fsck them often
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Mitigating hardware/firmware/driver instability on the Raspberry Pi
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Maintaining a solid WiFi connection on Raspberry Pi
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Keep your software up and running on the Raspberry Pi
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Disable or remove unneeded services and software to help keep your Raspberry Pi online
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Consider the risks before making any dramatic changes to your Raspberry Pi setup
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Choosing the right SD card for your Pi
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Fixing excessive Pi-hole lighttpd access log size when Netdata is installed
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A complete table of Nikon 1 system battery compatibility
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RIP: garagedoorctl
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From Pinboard to Raindrop
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Photo sequence of Bald Eagles hunting, from Nov. 2022
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A simple, reasonably verbose URL shortener.
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New IDs resulted in many “new” posts in Ann Arbor FOIA RSS feed
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Thinking about cardboard
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Hacking slightly better sum types without Go generics
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3D Printing Recommendation: Plasti-Dip Spray Rubberized Coating
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Reconsidering Netdata
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TDS220 Oscilloscope Refurbishment: Rotary Encoders & Backlight
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Building the atomic clock I’ve always wanted
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3D Printing Project: Tiny Trays for Screws, etc.
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Embracing a ruthless approach to email spam
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macOS Scripting: How to tell if the Terminal app has Full Disk Access
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Patron-only Fatal Error episodes are becoming public
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Reducing SD Card Wear on a Raspberry Pi or Armbian Device
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PiKVM Build
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Expanding the Ubiquiti Cloud Key Gen 2+ with a 3.5” Hard Drive
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Thermal Camera Photos of Wemos D1 Mini ESP8266 Board
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HTTPS Requests with a Small Set of Root Certificates on ESP8266 + Arduino
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HTTPS Requests with a Root Certificate Store on ESP8266 + Arduino
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Shipping Data to InfluxDB using Arduino + ESP8266
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Initial Impressions of ESP8266 + Arduino
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Environmental Data Logging to InfluxDB using BME280/AM2301 Sensors on Raspberry Pi
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Log your Ecobee data in InfluxDB with ecobee_influx_connector
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Working around the “Untrusted Developer” bug on iOS 15
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Checking in on iOS 15 bugs, as of 15.0.2
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Reusing an ESP8266HTTPClient
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How to enable debug logging for Arduino's ESP8266HTTPClient with PlatformIO
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ESP8266 + PlatformIO Serial Console Monitoring with Exception Decoding
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Debugging an Intermittent Arduino/ESP8266 ISR Crash
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Small commands, big consequences
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More Bugs in iPhone 13 & iOS 15
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iOS 15 & Safari 15
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Integrating URLs into the Finder file-browsing experience
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I wrote ‘hosts-timer’ to help quit my (desktop) Twitter and Facebook habits
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Tiny Side Project: Lofi Cafe.app
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I got into 3D printing, and it feels like magic
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LAKE.app
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LAKE.app GitHub repository
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Michigan COVID Vaccine Links
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Deferred Tasks, Project Templates, and More: Customizing Things with AppleScript
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Now: Feb. 2021
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Redirecting Hacker News traffic away from your site via Nginx configuration
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Why I use Arq instead of restic for macOS backups
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Ship electricity usage data from an Energy Bridge to InfluxDB
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Replacing iTunes, Music.app, iTunes Match, and iCloud Music Library
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Securing my personal SSH infrastructure with Yubikeys
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Using Flickr Again
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Letters of Recommendation: Where to start with Peter F. Hamilton, Mastodon iPhone apps, and Domain Registrars
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Now, Jan. 2021
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A lightweight service health check tool written in Bash
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Simple programs that make Things.app better
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Introducing Runner: a lightweight wrapper for cron jobs
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Letter to Ann Arbor City Council regarding the failed Y Lot vote
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Ann Arbor iPhone X Wallpaper
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Dashcam & Crash Report from March 2017 AAPD Diag Crash
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Deploying Let’s Encrypt with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
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Takeaways from Vox’s post on malicious ads
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Reading List: Meltdown and Spectre
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What Ali Ramlawi Gets Wrong About Development and Quality of Life
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API Design Reading List
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Recommended Equifax Breach Resources
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Failing Actors Reading Series
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Quick ADS-B monitoring on OS X
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ALPRs in Ann Arbor
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DRYing up duplicate code into helper functions
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Monitoring aircraft via ADS-B on OS X
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Statically-Typechecked Duck Types in Swift
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Choosing a Version Number for a CocoaPod with Updated Dependencies
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Parent-Child Communication in a Coordinator/View Model Application
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Fatal Error, Season 2
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Fatal Error
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Why Comcast injecting messages into web traffic is dangerous
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The hard problem in decentralized social networks
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Let’s Encrypt vs. iTunes: anatomy of an error delivering Fatal Error
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Fixing Storyboard Segues: Only Apple Can Do This
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Radio in Ann Arbor: Scanning KARB
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Over-Reactive?
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A brief index of many neat Ann Arbor things
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Ad networks in their current incarnation are too dangerous to be allowed to exist.
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Modeling polymorphic relationships in Swift (spoiler: enums seem pretty cool)
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Does everything need to be HTTPS?
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App Transport Security: What, Why, How?
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Ad-light, Malware-heavy
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Quotes
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‘Obviously super complex’: evaluating software architecture as simple vs. easy
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String is not a sufficient type: how using your type system can help you make better software
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Writing good commit messages
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Why I’m selling my Apple Watch
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Working with custom UIView designated initializers
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Nobody is using App Transport Security; what’s next?
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Ad blockers aren’t killing the web; ad networks are killing the web
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Multiple Inheritance vs. Traits or Protocol Extensions
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Cocoa’s mutable-subclass pattern is an antipattern
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Be Proactive: Use Reactive
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Casting in Swift 1.2: a brief summary
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IBOutlet declarations in Swift
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Subjective-C: I use property (dot) syntax liberally
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Why use GitHub Wikis?
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Tiny Swift idioms in ObjC
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A list of Auto Layout DSLs, Categories, Etc.
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The problems with due-process-compatible cryptography
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Why non-engineers should care about “Technical Debt”
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Why Reactive programming techniques are valuable
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Notes on Initialization in Swift
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Physics in Interstellar
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Back Buttons for Web View Controllers
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Real World Singleton Design
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Greg Titus on NSFileCoordination and Extensions
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iOS 8 Extensions Roundup
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Let’s talk about Optionals
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Benefits of Cocoa: Still here in Swift
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It’s Not Exploitable
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Code Optional
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Tech Debt and Refactoring
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Explicit Programming
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↗ Avoiding Singleton Abuse
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Follow me on Pinboard
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Quick followup on singletons
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Including your Pods directory in source control
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Singletons in Cocoa applications
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The Value of ReactiveCocoa
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Objective-C
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Serving from your Dropbox folder with nginx
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I FOIA'd Myself with the FBI
|
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Do programmers use serial commas more often than other people? (No.)
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ArborWX
|
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CDZLinkOpenManager
|
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Where is this awesome airplane playground?
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CDZPinger
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The UGLi
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Elegant UITableView row selection behavior based on edit state
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Collaborating with Git and Github
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1.5 Years of UMich Magic Bus Data
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Shooting Theatre, Dance, and Music
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Fixing 'Corrupted MAC On Input' Error with Git/SSH/VirtualBox 4.1.6
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UMich Google Calendar Updated for Winter 2012
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Capturing Lightning
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UMich Google Calendar Updated for Fall 2011
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How Rdio Can Kill Spotify (and vice-versa)
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Removing AT&T Mobile Web Bookmark from Android Phones
|
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Making a Private Gist Public
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Shooting Concerts with Strobe Lights
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The Twitter Busyness Average
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Find open CAEN computers using your phone
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Moving from Wordpress to Jekyll (and a new design)
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UMich Google Calendar Updated for Winter 2011
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Michigan Asst. AG Shirvell appeared at protest in May to defame Armstrong
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Datasheet for RadioShack Phototransistor
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Perfect ViewVC On Dreamhost
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University of Michigan Google Calendar
|
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Very Simple Dynamic DNS Client
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↗ Singletons are Pathological Liars
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