Intentionally inflammatory title there, but there are some valid reasons to be annoyed at USB Type C.
Firstly, I have discovered (the hard way) that although there are many cables on sale, the majority of Type C cables do not support even USB 3.0 speeds (so 5Gb/s) let …
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It's been 15 years and my GPG key is now looking hilariously out of date - 1024bit DSA key.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 …