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Author: Malcolm Gin
I'm just this guy, you know?
Unit Tests and Test Driven Development (TDD)
I am working on a project, both to develop a little widget – a calculator to support my weightlifting exercise…
Notes and remarks on my Wok Hei Lettuce with Chopped Salted Chiles
This is another promotional post about the anthology about recipes and cooking called Feeding the Muse, edited by Leona Wisoker.…
Short reccs for Asian restaurants in the East Bay
An old colleague just contacted me today about recommendations for Asian restaurants in the SF East Bay. I figured some…
On contributing to an anthology about cooking
This post is both promotional and musing, so to get the promotional stuff out of the way, read more, and…
2018 SGV Trip, Day 4 (Monday)
Good morning! This is the (delayed) fourth diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel…
2018 SGV Trip, Day 3 (Sunday)
Good afternoon! This is the (delayed) third diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel…
2018 SGV Trip, Day 2 (Saturday)
Good afternoon! This is the (delayed) second diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel…
2018 SGV Trip, Day 1 (Friday)
Also get some dumplings. seriously. What are you? An Animal?
Migrating WordPress from one URL to another (with Dreamhost)
I haven’t seen a comprehensive guide for this so I figured I should probably write it up. A site on…
Blowing my own horn a little – Gitlab repositories and demo sites
Lately while alternating with looking for jobs/work, I’ve been doing programming exercises with The Coding Train, which is a good,…
On keeping passwords and accounts
Lately there have been some high profile password issues. Twitter discovered a log that was logging passwords in cleartext (this…
Newly reported White People (ally/accomplice) BUG
I figure since this is a tech/geek blog, it will be useful to report these issues as bugs and hope…
Administrative Note (3/2018)
Just a note. Today I upgraded the PHP framework for my WordPress blogs to version 7.2, which is good in…
Memory Management
I don’t mean this to be metaphorical, but maybe 10 or 20 years from now it will be. Computers and…
More on Home Automation, Homebridge, Nest, and Apple’s HomeKit
I got Homebridge, the Node.js-based software Bridge for use with home automation and Nest (and other Internet of Things –…
Getting better at customizing WordPress
Since last year, I’ve been volunteering on a Taproot Foundation Website grant, and we’ve been setting up WordPress for a…
Adventures in Home Automation
For me, it started with the Nest Protects (Smoke and CO detectors), then a Nest Thermostat, then more Protects, now…
Still seeking a good CrashPlan Home Unlimited Family replacement
As you may or may not know, CrashPlan, in April 2017, announced intent to mothball the CrashPlan Home service by…
Toxic Masculinity, the Real Scoop on What it’s Like to be a Man in it, and Related Thoughts
Let me start by laying my cards out and saying why I’m writing this. I was assigned male at birth.…
2017 Thanks Taking
Let me start with a statement about “Thanksgiving”. We’re supposed to give thanks for all that we have. That’s great,…
What happens when Facebook goes down?
Answer: Then Twitter goes down, then Livejournal, then Blogger (briefly), then YouTube (briefly), then LinkedIn (briefer than Facebook and Twitter).…
Time to upgrade Mediawikis again!
I did this last year and took notes and made observations. This time I’m upgrading three mediawiki installations:
A modern dev’s Git/GitHub centric process to change a file
Just so you know, and this probably isn’t the most modern/bleeding edge process or platform, but as a modern-ish dev…
The dreaded rebuild
I don’t know about you, but I am rough on computers. In the course of the weeks and months I…
Javascript geeking – p5.js and matter.js
I haven’t done HTML/Javascript geeking in a while, but thought while I’m in downtime between courses for my Data Science…
Making a Home WiFi Network faster
My friend Deb came by yesterday and after some fiddling we got her computer on my wired Ethernet network, which…
Taoism and the Sage
By sagely, what I mean is that there is an oft forgotten set of ethics that are meant to apply to all Taoists, especially the successful ones. It’s a mix of altruism, governance, manipulation, idealism, and pragmatism, and the idea is that each Taoist follower, each potential sage, is supposed to be doing a lot of long-term thinking and supposed to be able to take advantage of prevailing political, social, and cultural conditions to take custody of and responsibility for their people, their land, their world.