I recently noticed that animations in Safari were stuttering pretty badly on my M1 powered 2020 MacBook Air, and dove in to figure out why. I’m a web developer, so I went to work writing a small bit of vanilla JavaScript to monitor requestAnimationFrame which is the API that the window object uses to “paint”… Continue reading Low framerate in Safari on M1 Mac
17 Rules
Build modular programs Write readable programs Use composition Separate mechanisms from policy Write simple programs Write small programs Write transparent programs Write robust programs Make data complicated when required, not the program Build on potential users’ expected knowledge Avoid unnecessary output Write programs which fail in a way that is easy to diagnose Value developer time over… Continue reading 17 Rules
19 Lessons
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse). Plan to throw one [version] away; you will, anyhow (copied from Frederick Brooks’s The Mythical Man-Month). If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. When you lose… Continue reading 19 Lessons
WordPress 5.7
PHP is not recommended
The latest version of macOS makes it pretty clear how Apple feels about open web technologies that aren’t JavaScript:
Raspberry Pi 4, Ubuntu 20.04, PoE Hat Fan Control
I recently acquired an 8Gb Raspberry Pi 4 and promptly installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it to see how it worked. Right away, I was excited that the PoE Hat worked and that it booted without any problems, except that the fan on the Hat was no longer controllable the way that it used to be.… Continue reading Raspberry Pi 4, Ubuntu 20.04, PoE Hat Fan Control
macOS Disk Utility “Operation cancelled”
When trying to use Disk Utility to make a backup of one of my Raspberry Pi’s, I was repeatedly seeing an error that was causing my backup to fail. Operation cancelled Disk Utility Not particularly helpful. For me, the fix involved setting the Disk Utility application to have Full Disk Access inside macOS System Preferences,… Continue reading macOS Disk Utility “Operation cancelled”
Update GitLab signing key
At the beginning of April, GitLab updated their repository signing key. If you try to update, you will see an error during sudo apt update : W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ee/ubuntu bionic InRelease: The following signatures… Continue reading Update GitLab signing key
Going Remote: Basecamp Walkthrough Livestream
Posting this here because I’ve shared it privately a few times. It’s such a neat way to see how Basecamp uses Basecamp. Really, it’s a testament to how artists use their own tools.Definitely check it out!
Raspberry Pi PoE Hat Fan Control
I noticed yesterday that the fans on the PoE Hat of my Raspberry Pi 4’s were behaving strangely. They were both kicking on based more on time than temperature, even though neither of them seemed that hot. You can check the temperature via the command line like this: /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp And you’ll get something like:… Continue reading Raspberry Pi PoE Hat Fan Control