The (almost) 10-year old 27" Thunderbolt display finally died.
Well, it didn't really die.
The Thunderbolt connector had gotten impossibly flaky. If I looked at it wrong, the monitor glitched or disonnected.
It was dead enough that I wasn't going to deal with it.
It involved this morass of adapters …
more ...See {filename}/blog/2014/03/2014_03_20-shiny_new_macbook_pro.rst
At the time (2014), the 8Gb machine was way more than adequate for all my needs as a writer.
Enter bloat.
Mac OS Catalina has essentially filled this machine to the breaking point. Six short years is the lifespan. Things (generally) work, but …
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"Running Python in Xcode: Step by Step" ericasadun.com/2016/12/04/run…
Thanks for the link. There's a fair amount of "this doesn't seem to be what Xcode was designed to do." But it does seem to work. I'll …
more ...Or. Why I Hate Windows. For Mac OS X, you download XCode (for free) and you can build anything. For Linux, you use some kind of yum or rpm installer for the developer tools, and you can build anything. For Windows... Pre-built binaries. 😂 And a hope that the version numbers …
more ...For those of us who live mostly off the grid, with inconsistent WiFi through hosts that flake out frequently, Apple's AppStore download protocol is absolutely infuriating. It's the most brittle damn protocol I've ever seen. When there's any disruption, it simply discards the data it has and starts again. How …
more ...Appleworks (formerly Clarisworks) is software that's been dead meat since 2007.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks#End_of_Appleworks
Which is fine unless you have an old computer with old applications that still works. For example, a 2002-vintage iMac G4 http://www.imachistory.com/2002/ still works. Slowly.
When someone …
more ...I've started to work with couchdb.
I've blogged before about the problems of SQL schema in Escaping the Relational Schema Trap.
A SQL schema -- for many applications -- is too confining. It creates cost with relatively little value. Once upon a time (when disks where expensive and computers were slow) it …
more ...This is a fair-to-partly silly question that shows up on places like StackOverflow once in a while.
Python is used widely and pretty heavily.
It's a built-in feature to many operating systems in common use. The exception, of course, is Windows.
I just found out -- the hard way -- that Python …
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