This is part one in a series of posts about some hardware I recommend (or otherwise!) for people who want to bring some semi-professional flair to their home network.
The first topic is storage - specifically, Network Attached Storage.
For the last few years, I was running a Mac …
Over the last few years, various people have used Karabiner to remap Caps Lock to cmd+shift+opt+ctrl, which is such an unusual combination of modifier keys, that it effectively makes Caps behave as a completely new modifier (which we have collectively called "Hyper", in reference to old UNIX …
Bye bye Blogger, hello GitHub Pages. This means no more comments, and probably a bunch of posts have terrible formatting at the moment, but at least my blog is now just static Markdown files I can edit nicely 😁
(Also the domain has changed, cmsj.net is the new tenshu.net …
It's been 15 years and my GPG key is now looking hilariously out of date - 1024bit DSA key. Yuck. So, time to start over. Below is a statement about the change, with details of my new and old keys, signed by both keys. Since it will almost certainly not paste …
The premise of this project is simple - my family lives in London, there's a bus route that runs along our road, and we use it a lot to take the kids places. The reality of using the bus is a little more complex - getting three kids ready to go out …
I was searching around for ways to automate sending iMessages, so I could write a plugin for Hammerspoon. I found various scripts lurking around the place for sending iMessages, but I also found one that can send SMS if you have SMS Relay enabled (which means you need OS X …
Comparing the Moto X to the Nexus 4 is interesting in one particular respect - the price. The Nexus 4 (made by LG, sold by Google) had very respectable specs when it was launched, but its price was surprisingly low ($300 off contract). We were told this was because it was …
Anyone who's been following Terminator knows this post has been a long time coming and should not be surprised by it.
As of a few days ago, I have handed over the reigns of the project to the very capable Stephen J Boddy (a name that will be no stranger …
I've started using Keyboard Maestro recently and it is one impressive piece of software. Here are a couple of the macros I've written that aren't completely tied to my system:
Type current Safari URL - This will type the URL of the frontmost Safari tab/window into your current application. Handy …
This is pretty simple really - unless Apple wants to launch a new Mac Pro and have it be out of date almost immediately, they need to wait until Intel has released Ivy Bridge Xeons, which won't be until next month at the earliest (and given the delays with Haswell, July …