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So, you bought four T67XX CO₂ sensors and only once they were delivered started to work out how to get values from them huh? Well I’m right there with you because so did I. and I carefully deposited the results ...
A comprehensive evaluation of the M1 MacBook Air as a development machine, covering Xcode performance, compatibility issues, and the transition challenges for developers.
Introducing, an all-new, super-sleek Blue Snowball microphone desk stand! It’s very nice Will, but why? The Problem I inherited a unwanted Blue Snowball from an old employer several years ago, and it’s been a really fantastic addition to my day ...
Learning the lay of the land
Inspiration and research assistance for this article was extremely graciously provided by David Darnes, Robb Owen, and Andy Bell. They're good, grounded folks who care about the right things. So as it turns out, the guy who made Statamic has ...
Practical strategies for curating your Twitter timeline through strategic following, muting, and filtering to create an informative and enjoyable social media experience.
Strategies for growing a meaningful Twitter following through authentic persona development, consistent engagement, and effective content creation based on 12 years of experience.
Investigating why certain UIKit controls throw runtime exceptions in Catalyst's 'Optimize Interface for Mac' mode and discovering which controls are forbidden.
Fixing unwanted keyboard avoidance behavior in UIHostingController using runtime dynamic subclassing to override keyboard notification handling methods.
Testing SwiftUI's production readiness in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur through Apple's Fruta sample app, revealing performance issues and platform-specific limitations.
An in-depth exploration of Apple's unified logging system and the promising OSLogStore API that Apple removed from iOS 14 at the last minute.
In macOS Catalina the new default shell is zsh, learn how to change the terminal and set it up to look and feel great.
Come waste your time with me.
Welcome to my new site! If you want to see my old writings you can still find them at my Wordpress blog site which is still up. I may at some point attempt to copy the posts over from there, ...
In my last post I wrote about how I rigged up a Raspberry Pi to monitor temperature, humidity and air pressure. In this post I will talk about how I added a multiline LCD display into the mix to display ...
(click for a higher resolution image) Background A few months ago I bought a couple of lemon trees to grow in my conservatory, but most excitingly for me, a Buddha’s hand tree. This tree was fairly expensive, and I wanted ...
A troubleshooting guide for building with Swift trunk development snapshots, documenting compilation errors, linker issues, and their solutions.
One of the main appeals of using Python’s asyncio is being able to fire off many coroutines and run them concurrently. How many ways do you know for waiting for their results?
Google Fonts is fast. Now it’s faster. Much faster.
Let’s talk about abstractions and Pythonic code.
Some projects have the policy that all tests must have an explanatory comment – including all of mine. At first, I found that baffling. If that’s you right now, this article is for you.
Ever notice icons and text not lining up perfectly when you build buttons? Here's a simple fix to get things aligned juuust right.
How effective is Brotli, really?
GitHub’s own CI called GitHub Actions has been out of closed beta for a while and offers generous free quotas and a seamless integration with the rest of the site. Let’s have a look at how to use it for ...
I’m missing a key part from the public Python discourse and I would like to help to change that.
I got an error installing the libv8 gem on Catalina: $ gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.19' Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing libv8: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. current directory: /Users/will/.rbenv/versions/2.4.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/libv8-3.16.14.19/ext/libv8 /Users/will/.rbenv/versions/2.4.5/bin/ruby -r ...