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Author: Malcolm Gin

I'm just this guy, you know?

More on that custom widget – more about data analytics and researching stuff

October 22, 2020 Malcolm GinLeave a Comment on More on that custom widget – more about data analytics and researching stuffApple, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Home Automation, iOS 14, Lay Research, Measurement, Reproducibility, Shortcuts, Statistics

Let’s talk about lay research, one of the cornerstones of science, and reproducibility, another, and   doing one’s research and homework…

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Writing/Customizing/Automating a Custom Widget in Apple’s iOS 14

October 19, 2020 Malcolm Gin1 Comment on Writing/Customizing/Automating a Custom Widget in Apple’s iOS 14Apple, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Git, Home Automation, HomeKit, iOS 14, Javascript, npm, Shortcuts, System Administration, Testing

(NOTE: These are the life and times of a geek – we do this kind of thing for ourselves or…

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“Advanced” Home Automations with HomeKit, Eve’s HomeKit app, and Homebridge

July 9, 2020 Malcolm GinGeek

From time to time as I’m writing something for another use (I spend an inordinate amount of time updating house…

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RPE System for Fitness

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Malcolm GinFitness, Geek

IMPORTANT NOTE: Though I am talking about fitness, and my goal is to be more fit, stronger, more flexible, and…

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Unit Tests and Test Driven Development (TDD)

October 19, 2019October 19, 2019 Malcolm GinGeek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Testing

I am working on a project, both to develop a little widget – a calculator to support my weightlifting exercise…

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The KLF

January 16, 2019January 17, 2019 Malcolm GinGeek, Music, The KLF

While I was growing up, I only really had access to radio and to my parents’ LP collection (yeah, I…

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Notes and remarks on my Wok Hei Lettuce with Chopped Salted Chiles

August 6, 2018 Malcolm GinFood, Geek, Kitchen

This is another promotional post about the anthology about recipes and cooking called Feeding the Muse, edited by Leona Wisoker.…

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Short reccs for Asian restaurants in the East Bay

August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek

An old colleague just contacted me today about recommendations for Asian restaurants in the SF East Bay. I figured some…

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On contributing to an anthology about cooking

August 3, 2018August 6, 2018 Malcolm GinFood, Geek, Kitchen, Writing

This post is both promotional and musing, so to get the promotional stuff out of the way, read more, and…

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2018 SGV Trip, Day 4 (Monday)

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 Malcolm Gin2018, Food, Geek, Restaurants, SGV

Good morning! This is the (delayed) fourth diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel…

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2018 SGV Trip, Day 3 (Sunday)

July 5, 2018July 5, 2018 Malcolm Gin2018, Food, Geek, Restaurants, SGV

Good afternoon! This is the (delayed) third diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel…

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2018 SGV Trip, Day 2 (Saturday)

July 4, 2018July 6, 2018 Malcolm Gin2018, Food, Geek, Restaurants, SGV

Good afternoon! This is the (delayed) second diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel…

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2018 SGV Trip, Day 1 (Friday)

June 30, 2018July 2, 2018 Malcolm Gin1 Comment on 2018 SGV Trip, Day 1 (Friday)2018, Food, Geek, Restaurants, SGV

Also get some dumplings. seriously. What are you? An Animal?

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Migrating WordPress from one URL to another (with Dreamhost)

May 29, 2018May 30, 2018 Malcolm GinDevOps, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Posterity and Recordskeeping, System Administration, WordPress

I haven’t seen a comprehensive guide for this so I figured I should probably write it up. A site on…

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Blowing my own horn a little – Gitlab repositories and demo sites

May 15, 2018May 15, 2018 Malcolm GinDevelopment-as-a-career, DevOps, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Git, Gitlab, Javascript, matter js, p5 js, Web

Lately while alternating with looking for jobs/work, I’ve been doing programming exercises with The Coding Train, which is a good,…

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On keeping passwords and accounts

May 5, 2018May 5, 2018 Malcolm Gin2 Comments on On keeping passwords and accountsAdmin, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Security

Lately there have been some high profile password issues. Twitter discovered a log that was logging passwords in cleartext (this…

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Newly reported White People (ally/accomplice) BUG

April 6, 2018April 27, 2018 Malcolm GinBug Reports, Politics, White People

I figure since this is a tech/geek blog, it will be useful to report these issues as bugs and hope…

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Administrative Note (3/2018)

March 19, 2018April 6, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek

Just a note. Today I upgraded the PHP framework for my WordPress blogs to version 7.2, which is good in…

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Memory Management

March 18, 2018 Malcolm GinDevOps, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Hardware

I don’t mean this to be metaphorical, but maybe 10 or 20 years from now it will be. Computers and…

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More on Home Automation, Homebridge, Nest, and Apple’s HomeKit

March 17, 2018March 17, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek, Home Automation, Homebridge

I got Homebridge, the Node.js-based software Bridge for use with home automation and Nest (and other Internet of Things –…

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Getting better at customizing WordPress

March 6, 2018 Malcolm GinCSS, Development-as-a-career, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Git, Gitlab, PHP, System Administration, Web, WordPress

Since last year, I’ve been volunteering on a Taproot Foundation Website grant, and we’ve been setting up WordPress for a…

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Adventures in Home Automation

March 6, 2018 Malcolm Gin2 Comments on Adventures in Home AutomationApple, Geek, Home Automation

For me, it started with the Nest Protects (Smoke and CO detectors), then a Nest Thermostat, then more Protects, now…

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Still seeking a good CrashPlan Home Unlimited Family replacement

February 12, 2018February 13, 2018 Malcolm GinAdmin, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, System Administration

As you may or may not know, CrashPlan, in April 2017, announced intent to mothball the CrashPlan Home service by…

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This is my new home page

December 19, 2017March 19, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek

(Sticky) Summary: I moved my current projects page to this blog.

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Toxic Masculinity, the Real Scoop on What it’s Like to be a Man in it, and Related Thoughts

November 30, 2017May 30, 2018 Malcolm Gin1 Comment on Toxic Masculinity, the Real Scoop on What it’s Like to be a Man in it, and Related ThoughtsFeminism, Politics, Probability

Let me start by laying my cards out and saying why I’m writing this. I was assigned male at birth.…

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2017 Thanks Taking

November 28, 2017March 18, 2018 Malcolm Gin1 Comment on 2017 Thanks TakingFood, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Kitchen

Let me start with a statement about “Thanksgiving”. We’re supposed to give thanks for all that we have. That’s great,…

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What happens when Facebook goes down?

November 6, 2017March 18, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek

Answer: Then Twitter goes down, then Livejournal, then Blogger (briefly), then YouTube (briefly), then LinkedIn (briefer than Facebook and Twitter).…

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Time to upgrade Mediawikis again!

October 13, 2017February 13, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek, Geek-as-a-Trade, MediaWiki, System Administration

I did this last year and took notes and made observations. This time I’m upgrading three mediawiki installations:

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A modern dev’s Git/GitHub centric process to change a file

October 10, 2017February 13, 2018 Malcolm GinDevelopment-as-a-career, Geek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Git, Posterity and Recordskeeping, WordPress

Just so you know, and this probably isn’t the most modern/bleeding edge process or platform, but as a modern-ish dev…

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The dreaded rebuild

October 4, 2017March 18, 2018 Malcolm GinDevelopment-as-a-career, Geek-as-a-Trade, System Administration

I don’t know about you, but I am rough on computers. In the course of the weeks and months I…

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