Brands I don’t like. I don’t have to explain why, but the answer is almost always some combination of bad quality, bad privacy, and spam. Hmmmm Avoid Dead to me Bonus brand rankings US IP camera brands: Reolink > AMCrest > Foscam
Read More My shitlistI really didn’t want to write this, but every good link about structuring unit tests is dead. And I don’t want to hype this too much, but learning to arrange my tests in a certain order was one of the biggest productivity gains in my career. You should arrange your test into three distinct sections,…
Read More Code review: organize your tests for your sanity“Smart” devices are pretty nice, except now that products have matured, business departments keep making them worse. Products I’ve tried: Recommend nothin’ Testing Z-Wave Rating: So far, so good. Zigbee Rating: So far, so good. It sucks that some devices only come as Zigbee, and some as Z-Wave, so you need to buy into both…
Read More IOT InternetOfShitsThis article was making the rounds this week: did.txt file. Lately, I’ve been having trouble remember what I did, so the timing of that post was perfect. In the past, I’ve been able to do this in git like git reflog –since yesterday –decorate –author $(git whoami), but these days I’m in many Git repos…
Read More My did to help me remember what I didI consider myself really lazy. So here’s my basic workflow of home-grown commands I go through whenever I work on a Python project. Some notes before I dive in: replace $PROJECT with the name of your project. I keep a consistent name between projects so I can use the directory name for other things. some…
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I posted about this a long time ago, but I was cleaning my hard drive and found this screenshot and I need to brag about how awesome Doom mooD was: The face animated The face got bloodier the higher the CPU usage got The expression changed depending on how quickly CPU usage changed Doomguy’s face…
Read More TBT: Doom mooDIn the past, whenever I’ve done HTML, I’ve been bipolar. Either do whatever had to get done just to get the page rendered right, or stick to the lofty tenets of html5 and write semantic markup. Now that I’ve bounced between those two for a while now, I’ve learned a few things: Doing everything semantically…
Read More HTML/CSS Best PracticesNotes on how major brands fit me. Banana Republic pants – most are too tight, though these fit well: classic fit: 30/30 kentfield straight-fit – 31/30, 30/30 is ok too Burberry shirts – S waist good, shoulders tight CK shirts – S good fit pants – too tight jackets – M good fit John Varvatos…
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