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Communicating Timezones

Timezones are surprisingly hard already. But there's one practice in communication that makes them so much harder that they need to be in international settings. Luckily the solution is really easy.

2024-04-01

aprilFools

scalingIn

The next big evolution in DevOps methodology

This is the latest DevOps methodology to drive business revenue to the next level.

2024-03-24

corrections

resolution-corrections

Resolution - Corrections, Definitions, Acknowledgements, and References

I covered a lot of detail in the resolution project. I was bound to get something wrong. This is where I'll post anything that comes up over time.

2024-01-31

The portrait bug

Why portrain-only designs on mobile devices are a bug. And why that matters.

2024-01-30

dod

devOpsDream - Mass, evolved

Getting the information and access you need to your infrastructure quickly, so that you can get back to sleep.

2024-01-29

portfolio

Portfolio

A collection of projects to show off to potential employers.

2024-01-26

ai

ml

Revisiting machine learning

It's time to blow the dust off machine learning, and apply it to a dataset that I know.

2023-12-28

handWavey

handWavey-learningCurve

Flattening the handWavey learning curve

I've just released the biggest, most exciting, update since the first public release of handWavey. The learning curve is dramatically reduced!

2023-12-14

linux

su

susudo

The difference between sudo -i and su -

A recent question on Reddit resulted in many incomplete and wrong answers. It seemed valuable to dive a little deeper.

2023-11-22

achel

journeyToAchel

The journey to Achel and beyond

The story of where Achel came from, and where it's going.

2023-11-18

cv

cvMangle - When automation meets your CV

My CV had gained so much weight that it was hard to do anything with it any more, and it was hard to read. So I did something about it...

2023-10-27

Switching between the physical and virtual keyboards gracefully on the Astro.

Under some circumstances, the virtual keyboard does not appear/disappear as you'd expect. Luckily, it's really easy to work around.

2023-10-06

HandWavey

Control your computer using a Leap Motion controller, but with an every-day-quality implementation.

2023-09-25

When documentation becomes a fairytale

If your technical documentation would sound amazing when narrated by someone like Morgan Freeman, or Judi Dench, it's not documentation.

2023-08-29

ai

How to share stable diffusion on your network

If you want to share stable diffusion on your network without exposing any information to the outside world. This is one way to do it.

2023-08-26

ai

Making Stable Diffusion go faster on old GPUs

There's a trick for getting a big speed boost on old hardware that's so easy that I'm surprised I haven't heard people talking about it.

2023-08-24

3D photos from a single hand held camera

What began as 3 tripods on a hill, and hours per photo, ended with way better results in seconds, hand held.

2023-08-15

ap

Auto-pilot vs Javelining

I accidentally automated Javelining a plane into the ground. And I learnt a huge amount along the way.

2023-05-13

resolution-useCases

Resolution vs different use cases

Most of the discussions around screen resolution have been something like "I don't want it; therefore you don't want it." Let's dive into that.

2023-05-04

resolution-whatIsBeingDisplayed

Resolution - What is being displayed on your screen?

When I created my first test pattern for testing the phones, I couldn't see what I expected to see. So I dived into why. What followed was a fascinating journey.

2023-04-24

resolution-fonts

resolution-whatCanYouSee

How much of that resolution is possible for a human to perceive?

When someone tells you that the maximum that you can perceive is governed by the size and spacing of your cone cells; they are wrong. Let's dive into why.

2023-04-17

resolution-app

resolution-privacyPolicy

The app that measures how much you can see of your phone's screen resolution

How much of your phone's screen resolution can you actually see? This app helps you quantify it.

2023-04-07

resolution-fonts

Why fonts look fuzzy on a phone's 1080p display

When I set the the font size to my preferences, it looks fuzzy on a 1080p display, but not on a 4k display. Why?

2023-03-30

4k

Is a 4K screen on a phone too small to benefit from?

Over the last few years, there has been a lot of talk about whether you can make use of the full resolution on a phone with a 4K display. Let's dig in and actually understand this.

2023-02-18

Astro dimensions vs screen protectors

What are the actual Astro Slide screen dimensions?

2022-11-26

astro

astroSettings

tips

How to find the Astro-specific settings.

2022-11-23

How to disable OneSearch

Want to disable OneSearch? Here's how.

2022-11-17

How to work around the Astro screen going black from time to time

Sometimes the Astro Slide screen goes black. Here's an easy work-around.

2022-11-17

astro

sabbatical

Astro

Group of posts about the Astro Slide 5G.

2022-11-16

astro

astroFingerprintScanner

fixes

workAround

How to fix the unreliable fingerprint scanner on the Astro

Many people have reported the finger print scanner on the Astro slide 5G to be unreliable. Here's how to fix it.

2022-11-16

How to close the Astro Slide without key presses

It's very easy to have accidental key presses while closing the Astro Slide. Here's a method that makes it much easier.

2022-11-14

Gemini without HDMI

Getting an external display running on the Gemini PDA (or any modern Android phone) without the HDMI dongle.

2022-11-14

Astro without HDMI

Getting an external display running on the Astro Slide (or any modern Android phone) without the HDMI dongle.

2022-10-31

privacyPolicy

resolution-privacyPolicy

Resolution - Privacy policy

Privacy policy for the Resolution Android app.

2022-09-02

rksSeries

stoppingPatreon

An autopsy of my time on Patreon

I'm stopping my Patreon activity for now. Let's dive a little deeper into why.

2022-08-21

fixes

noHDMI

withoutHDMI

No HDMI on your phone?

How to get an external display working on your phone without using an HDMI adapter.

2022-08-20

handWavey

handWavey-gettingStarted

handWavey - getting started

What is handWavey? And how to get up to speed with it more quickly.

2022-08-08

4 Phone hacks

4 easy phone hacks to make your phone more useful and fun

2022-07-07

storm

unrelated

We had a bit of a storm

We had a bit of a storm, and it seemed worth a share.

2022-06-25

ssd

The fake storage size scam just went mainstream, and many people are going to loose data

This scam just went much more mainstream.

2022-03-07

rksSeries

RandomKSandom series

The RandomKSandom series is the spiritual successor to FunnyHacks. Here, you can find all of the posts about it.

2022-03-07

My dream office

My dream office.

2021-01-26

crowdFundingRefunds

hardware

Crowd funding is not a market

Why you should think carefully before requesting refunds from a crowdfunding campaign.

2020-12-11

CentOS Stream

CentOS, as we know it, is ending. What? Why? And what we should do next.

2020-09-17

Black theme for kmail content

An easy way to get a dark theme for kmail content, that reliably works on pretty much everything.

2020-07-19

confessionP2

newSite

projects

An SRE's confession. P(2/2)

This is a continuation of An SRE's confession. P(12)])(confession). If you haven't read that yet, you should start there. 1. Site look and logic 1. An SRE's confession P(11) 1. **[An SRE's confession P(22) - You are here. 1. Under the hood. 1. Why I chose the tooling that I ...

2020-07-17

confession

newSite

projects

An SRE's confession. P(1/2)

FunnyHacks recently underwent an overhaul from top to bottom. I covered the front-end stuff on FunnyHacks.com and that was the right place for the post introducing the changes. But since RandomKSandom is where I'm going to be posting future content like this, this seemed like the right place to continue. ...

2020-06-28

projects

Projects

This tag is for grouping the various projects that I do. These range from quick hardware hacks the provide some use, through to larger software projects. ...

2020-06-22

WeCanDoThisBetter

I've been in the computer industry for well over two decades. It has changed so much that it is barely recognisable compared to what it was. Most of the changes are for the better. Some are things that we have always sucked at. And some are very much worse. The weCanDoThisBetter series of blog posts is for addressing the areas where we could do better.

2020-06-22

error

NULL

Something went wrong...

This is the page for when something goes wrong. Most likely a 404. Try going here instead. In case you were wondering what the photo is in the header, it's a lens for one of the LED light sources in a projector. It is both boiled, and cracked, which is ...

2018-01-01

Easily calibrate multiple touch screens in linux

calibrate multiple touch and non touch screens on a single linux system." This is to address the issue on multi-display Linux desktops where the touch panel is automatically calibrated to operate over all of the displays, and even if you get the calibration right, it's then wrong again when you ...

2014-03-05

fh

DoneIt - Intro

DoneIt is a time tracker for working out where your time is going. For me there were a few things I wanted to achieve with it - Be able to say what I've been doing all day. - See how much time is lost to time ...

2014-03-04

fh

Mass - Intro

Well over a year ago I introduced mass which is a tool for managing large numbers of servers. It's come along way in that time, and it's well and truly time for another look. From the users' point of view, the most interesting things are probably that you can now ...

2014-03-03

fh

Achel - Introduction

Achel is a programming language that I have been working on for the past 13 years (I said 12 in the video, it has been a long time!) There has been growing interest in the programs I have been writing using it, so I have now released it as open ...

1970-01-01

Themes

While the tags are the primary way to refine what you want to see around the site, themes are tags that are quite general and most likely to be at the right level for most people to browse or subscribe via RSS. ...

1970-01-01

Software

I've done a few software projects over the years. Here's a collection of some of them.

1970-01-01

all

everything