I feel like I start almost every post this way these days, but given the ongoing global pandemic, I’ve been spending a lot more time at home doing things like staying on top of my reading. You’d think I got paid by the COVID-19 reference if you were silly enough to think I get paid… Continue reading Online Reading Redux
Category: technology
macOS Big Sur 11.2 Homebrew and Git Error
After I upgraded my macOS install from 11.1 to 11.2, the next time I tried running brew update to update all of the packages available in Homebrew, I got a wall of text regarding things going off the rails that ultimately culminated with this error: Error: Failure while executing; git config –replace-all homebrew.analyticsmessage true was… Continue reading macOS Big Sur 11.2 Homebrew and Git Error
Switching To Brave
I spend the majority of my computing time on the MacBook Pro that I use for work. For a very long time, I’ve used Safari as my main browser on it. Unsurprisingly, Safari integrates very nicely with the rest of macOS, and I honestly just really like it as a browser. Lately, though, I’ve been… Continue reading Switching To Brave
Cloudflare Analytics
Anyone who knows me, reads the type of things I tweet about, and/or listens to the Same Shade of Difference podcast knows that I’m an advocate of online privacy. I’m all for blocking trackers, avoiding services from invasive companies like Facebook, and generally trying to keep as much of what I do online known only… Continue reading Cloudflare Analytics
msal4j With Groovy
I’ve written before about the fact that I use Groovy heavily in my current role since the platform I work the most frequently with is able to treat it as a first class citizen, whereas using something like PowerShell or Python adds a few more hurdles. The other thing I work with heavily is Office… Continue reading msal4j With Groovy
Parse ISO 8601 String With Timezone Offset To Date Object In Groovy
My Groovy posts always have the absolute worst titles, but I figure that making them verbose is really the only way to make them discoverable. I write a good bit of Groovy code at work, and given that it’s been a few years since the heyday of Groovy it can occasionally be a bit of… Continue reading Parse ISO 8601 String With Timezone Offset To Date Object In Groovy
Twenty Twenty-One WordPress Theme
While I made the change a few weeks ago, it seems fitting that my first post of 2021 should be about my swap to the Twenty Twenty-One WordPress theme. For anyone who isn’t aware, each year WordPress releases a new “official” theme for the platform. While theme-elitists out there may scoff at them in favor… Continue reading Twenty Twenty-One WordPress Theme
Star Lite Mk III
After spending some quality time with my Pinebook Pro, I decided that I wanted something slightly more powerful for my personal laptop. While most of my heavy-lifting in the world of computers is done with my MacBook Pro for work (which was recently upgraded to a device featuring the new M1 chips; look for more… Continue reading Star Lite Mk III
Adding SSH To GitHub
Between the Thanksgiving holiday and some shifting priorities when I got back to work, I hadn’t made any new commits to my GitHub account for about 10 days. This meant that I didn’t have any new posts to my recently-launched GitCommit site that makes a bit of a microblog from my commit messages. To be… Continue reading Adding SSH To GitHub
macOS Big Sur pip Installation Error
Given that I have technological FOMO while also being a technology masochist, I upgraded my 2018 MacBook Pro to macOS 11 “Big Sur” as soon as it was available. Common sense dictates that I should have waited a while to let others encounter and fix some of the kinks prior to upgrading myself, but what’s… Continue reading macOS Big Sur pip Installation Error