Husband, father, coder, photographer, traveler.
This video finishes the series I started last year with getting a short-term rental property ready to rent. In this video I go over the networking equipment and the general setup we’re using to offer WiFi for our guests.
The UniFi Dream Machine has been working well for over a year now. Since recording this video, I’ve had to do one remote update of the firmware for a major vulnerability in October, 2023. The update worked without a hitch.
Even though there are a few head-scratchers with the M3 Pro, in general the new M3 MacBook Pros look like a nice update. The Max with 12 P cores and 4 E cores looks like an especially nice configuration, albeit at a price.
I’m still holding tight with my M1 Max (maybe an M4 will have my name on it), but it’s exciting to see the performance gains continuing to made with each generation.
That wraps up the car maintenance this week.
On Tuesday I took it in for new summer tries (Continental ExtremeContact Sport O2’s…so far they have been super-sticky). Then yesterday it had an oil change.
Feels pretty smooth after everything’s been done.
Replaced the engine and cabin air filters in the subie tonight. Judging by the state of the old ones, I should have swapped them long ago.
It’s been awhile, but I spent some time this weekend contributing to an open source project. After getting a Unifi PDU last week, I wanted to be able to see power metrics in my Grafana setup.
Unpoller had a lot of code attempting to add support, but the main dev didn’t have hardware to test with. I pushed it the rest of the way and posted a PR:
https://github.com/unpoller/unpoller/pull/612
It was my first chance to work with Go, so that made things a little interesting.
Had a drive die in my TrueNAS SSD pool (8x 2TB in mirrored VDEVs) earlier this week.
Decided to order 2x 3.84TB replacements to swap the entire VDEV, because solid state prices have plummeted this past year. I’ll have an unbalanced pool, but thinking unbalanced SSDs shouldn’t have too big of a performance impact.
Will keep the good 2TB SSD as a cold spare for the next failure.
Today was a perfect day to go mountain biking. Hit up a relatively new trail called Michigan’s Dragon and had a great time. Biked about 17 miles of rolling single track along a lake.
Can’t wait to go back, though I’d probably pick a slightly shorter section next time. I’m definitely going to be feeling this tomorrow…
Damn…two desktop UPSes dead in as many weeks. One little power blip and it just gave up.
I could probably just replace the battery, but the screen backlight has been out for awhile now too, which is a hassle, so I’ll probably just replace the whole thing.
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Here’s one of the original App Store screenshots for MyWeather Mobile. We’ve come a long way…
Seasonality Go was just a glint in my eye, and wasn’t available until day 1 of the iPad App Store a few years later.
Looks like someone already put MyWeather Mobile on that list of the first 500 apps on the App Store. That was a heck of a project to pull together in just a few weeks. So much fun.
@gruber@mastodon.social I appreciate your take on the Vision Pro. Before the keynote, I was skeptical a product like this would be anything but a toy.
After seeing the keynote and reading your take on it, I can say with certainty that I was completely wrong. The Vision Pro will cement itself as an important part of future computing.
https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos
I’m a little surprised the Apple silicon Mac Pro didn’t go directly to PCIe 5 support. That’s been standard on desktop and server PC hardware for months now.
I’ve learned in the last 24 hours that OWC must not stress test their Thunderbolt 10GbE adapters. Use case: copying 15TB over the network.
An OWC Helios w/ 10Gb card lasted for only 15-30 minutes saturating the link before it overheats and kernel panics (tested on both an M1 Max and Intel MBP).
The OWC Thunderbolt Pro Dock (latest rev) fared better, and lasted 5-6 hours before it overheated and reset itself, dropping all network connections.
Next up: Internal 10GbE NIC on a 2018 Mac Mini.
Yasss! Wiped a pool and added a couple more drives. 8x16TB in a raidz2.
Give me a few days to copy everything back…
One of the nicer places I’ve had the privilege to eat lunch.
This morning I took the path less traveled (it’s not even on most maps), and it paid off big time.
Tonight’s sunset was one for the books.
I knew it was bound to happen, but I was foolish enough to keep going.
I’ve only seen this a handful of times in my 20 years in Michigan, but we’re getting thundersnow!
This evening at their rock-climbing class, our oldest, on her way up, gave our youngest a high-five while on her way back down from the top.