Technical
Speed Comparison Between Samsung T5 and T7 on macOS
Samsung offer two similar external Solid State Drives (SSD) that connect via USB. These are the T5 and T7 drives. The form factor is almost identical and thus any difference is internal.
Notes for gomobile on macOS
I have been exploring Android development and attempting to use a go code base. This appears possible with bindings created by gomobile. Getting gomobile to work without installing onerous system wide packages on my computer has been time consuming.
Ask Different
My contributions on Ask Different occasionally leads to people reaching out to me.
Splitting More Movie Formats
I wrote Movie Splitter for us, my wife and I. We both have point and shoot Canon cameras that capture video in MPEG-4 format. The cameras have a nice feature called Auto-Hybrid. This feature captures a little video before each photograph we take and combines those little bits into a longer video. Over the course of a day or two taking photos, the compilation of little bits grows into a few minutes of treasured memories.
Change in Domain Registrars
I manage a handful of domain names. Regrettably I had to move them to a new domain registrar. My former registrar had succumbed to temptation and had begun messing around.
VoIP with Asterisk on Synology via Docker
Having successfully banished our need for a physical phone from upstairs, everything changed. My Raspberry Pi is being repurposed for a family member and I now have a Synology DiskStation.
Making the Phone Vanish - Telephone Calls via an HT-503 and Raspberry Pi
A guide to setting up a landline, an HT-503, and Raspberry Pi for an incredible home telephone system.
Internet At Home Without a Phone Line
Our house move is nearly upon us and the telecom line has yet to be installed. Rather than panic, I set up a wireless network backed by a 4G mobile/cellular data connection.
Movie Splitter and Multilingual Chapter Markers
The latest Miln Movie Splitter update adds support for multilingual chapters markers. This odd sounding improvement is as strange as you might imagine.
Problems with OS X 10.11 – El Capitan
This year Apple released OS X 10.11, as known as El Capitan. This has not been a good update for me.