Baptisms, Weddings & significant events hexagons From time to time, I feel compelled to create designs and implement them with pyrography – literally burning into wood – for events of καιρός significance I am invited to witness, such as my baptism. I hope the work speaks for itself. Creativity cannot be rushed – it represents …
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Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly
“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” (NIV:1984) This post’s title is written in Micah, and the Biblical basis of a wonderful Pat Barrett song. But I’ve buried the lead to …
Text Fragment Links in Firefox 131+
It’d been bugging me since sometime last year that Firefox didn’t do Text fragments in links. The test case that resonated the most with me was on the Firefox Terms of Use via Information Age (IA), not scrolling or highlighting. Today, it’s still not. But that’s most likely because the “Mozilla” which was present has …
Reflections through time on SSH RSA to Ed25519, rUNSWift and Neytiri
When one has been in technology as long as I have, one tends to accrue battle scars and war stories as things change, things always change. Things like SSH on macOS historically used the cryptosystem algorithm of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman, or RSA as its default. As it’s fundamentally just applied math, …
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Change of WIC City’s YouTube Home
Hello all, If you missed it (I too have not yet seen a memo), there’s a change of home of the WIC City YouTube (old one, for historical sake). The new one is: https://www.youtube.com/@WesleyInternational/videos I’m a WIC member, I’d imagine this is as good a way as any of letting people know.
A brief survey of virtualization on Apple Silicon M3 / Sonoma in 2024
As a Christian, I’m called to be a good steward of what I’ve been given. So while I prefer to post woodworking stuff here, I also do a lot of technology for a living, and as it was time, I recently got a shiny M3 Mac. I’d like to boot my Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.3 LTS …
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St Anne’s @ Christmas
– The Home Alone 2: Lost In New York Children’s Hospital is… St. Anne’s – Enemy of the State (hardly a Christmas film…but it has a surprising number of moments)… has a young Jack Black playing Fiedler and saying “McClean, Baltimore, between Hood and St. Anne’s“ – I visited St Anne’s Strathfield while I lived …
A hardwood bench
Goal: A bench to sit on; to replace an unsafe, falling apart and badly rusted garden swing.
Coronavirus: [Not a] Black Swan of 2020
I agree with Damien Klassen here: I object to the term black swan … for me a black swan is something that is not only unlikely, but [is an event] you never even thought could possibly happen, whereas this has been an event for weeks now … I think it’s an event that has been …
The Remote Leader’s Guide to Managing a Team
Via Angel.co: https://www.matthewbarby.com/remote-leadership/ Thoroughly agree with things like how precise communication needs to be (and how easy it is to mess up which can require much patience and forgiveness) having been fortunate to be in a globally distributed team with no timezone overlap at MongoDB (Australia, New York, Berlin), an Australia-Vietnam team at Adam & …
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Peter Johannes Schmidt 