Graham

Photos, stories, and news from Graham Miln.

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.

Toyota Touch - USB Disk Format

Struggling to get your Toyota Touch to recognise your USB drive? Format your USB drive as Master Boot Record and use a FAT16 or FAT32 file system.

Amsterdam

We recently spent a long weekend in Amsterdam. This was our first visit to the city and I am not sure it could have lived up to my expectations.

Another Adventure

It seems once one giant insurmountable self-imposed ordeal is finished, another quickly follows.

Ask Different

My contributions on Ask Different occasionally leads to people reaching out to me.

Plastic Defects in Joby GorrilaPods

Megan took out her Joby GorrilaPod flexible tripod for the first time in a few months. When she picked it up and moved one of the flexible legs, it pulled away in her hand.

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.

Blossom

Our long established cherry trees have burst into flower this week. The warmer weather has arrived and the garden is returning to life.

Snake in the Grass

Snake in the grass

The texture of the snake gave it away. The light reflecting off the skin seemed out of place, somehow unnatural and unnerving. It took a moment to figure out what had caught me off guard. Once found, my only thought was getting the camera.