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Zhiyun Z1 Smooth C Gimbal
I generally don’t take much video – compared to taking photos I find it boring and laborious. Even though there’s a big red record button on my camera I just forget to press it. After returning from a big trip last year I realised I had no video. Literally nothing at all. A year later I’m…
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A clockwork tortoise, a magic tree, and The Beano
I’m not usually one for sentimentality. Most of the things from my childhood have been thrown away, lost, or have otherwise disappeared along the way. Saying that, while digging through boxes I came across some old books. These are books that are old enough, or memorable enough, to have survived the great Kindle purge of the…
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Using pv to view the progress of dd
If you use dd for any kind of copying you’ll know how it’s not exactly forthcoming with information and it’s hard to tell if it’s doing anything. Some versions of dd have a status=progress parameter that will output progress information. Sadly this doesn’t exist on the native MacOS version. An alternative way of showing progress information…
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Yarn
There’s another new toy from Facebook, this time called Yarn. Here’s how it went for me: Installed yarn with brew install yarn Typed yarn in my project directory Waited a while Committed changes to git All very easy. I’ve not yet experienced any of the benefits of yarn, but that’s probably just a question of…
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virtio_net virtio0 ens3: renamed from eth0
So while fumbling about on my VPS I somehow managed to disable all networking. Using the VPS console I noticed this in /var/log/syslog: virtio_net virtio0 ens3: renamed from eth0 That doesn’t sound good. Sure enough, trying: ifup eth0 Returned: Failed to bring up eth0 Certainly explains the lack of network. After some digging about on…
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