Category: Beep
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SimpleSync
What better way to welcome in the New Year than over-engineering a solution to an edge case that almost no one will need. Hurrah! The thing is, sometimes I need to edit files on a remote server. This isn’t anything new or different, but sometimes I also want to use my editor of choice (VSCode), […]
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Downloading iCloud photos
I take a lot of photos and try to be very careful with their management and storage. Everything gets included in Lightroom, and backed up in a variety of ways. The photos on my and my wife’s iPhone live in the cloud, outside the rest of my archive. This is something that’s always irked me. […]
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‘Fixing’ a Commodore 64
A while back I made a nostalgic impulse purchase on eBay and ended up with a Commodore 64 – a real breadbin style one, with no emulation in sight. This was my first ever computer and I have fond memories of playing countless games, waiting patiently for things to load from tape, and borrowing library […]
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Speeding up a Synology rebuild
After purchasing a Synology NAS I inserted a bunch of drives and left ‘expanding’ overnight. When I came back in the morning it had gone from 2% to 5% complete – about 95% less than what I was hoping. I discovered that you can SSH into the box and check the status of the rebuild […]
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Clearing Chrome’s DNS cache
If you ever need to point a domain name at an IP address, for sandboxing during development, or for whatever reasons, then Chrome can be a real nuisance. It seems to cache the domain name and refuses to use your new IP address. Recent versions supposedly monitor /etc/hosts, and if you view the DNS cache […]
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