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Creating a macOS iconset (.icns) file

26 November 202426 November 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I wanted to create a macOS bundle for an application that I use frequently, and wanted it to have an attractive icon. I had a good PNG image, and knew …

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Life

qStudio & PRQL – a pretty good match

25 October 202427 October 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I’ve been following the progress of qStudio – a SQL IDE that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s great for running SQL queries against a database. I haven’t used …

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Life

Configure a “spare router”

30 September 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

If you work much with OpenWrt, you likely have a pile of older routers that you’re no longer using. But what to do with them? You could pass them along …

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Life

OPNsense Fights Bufferbloat

21 June 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

@SiemusS recently asked me to review the draft documentation for FQ_CoDel for OPNsense. The document turned into a fairly nice description of the FQ_CoDel algorithm. See https://github.com/opnsense/docs/blob/master/source/manual/how-tos/shaper_bufferbloat.rst

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Software

ExceLint is working again

5 June 20249 June 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I do a lot of work with spreadsheets. Some are pretty simple, and I can inspect them by hand. Some are enormously complicated – hundreds of rows, dozens of columns, …

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Software

PRQL Dockerfile works again

5 June 20245 June 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

The PRQL project provides a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement. To make it easier to share the development environment, there is a Dev Container that bundles the dozens of components …

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Networking / Software

All the “reasons” that bufferbloat isn’t a problem

6 May 20246 June 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

As we take a shot at opening people’s eyes to bufferbloat, we should know some of the “objections” we’ll run up against. Even though there’s terrific technical data to back …

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Software

Using ffmpeg to massage image, audio, and video

31 March 20246 May 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I regularly record public meetings in my town and post them on Youtube. This allows residents who could not attend the meeting in person to see what occurred. It also …

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Life

WPNTFIIWDKIB

17 November 202318 November 2023 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

We promise not to fix it if we don’t know it’s broke. My mentor at Dartmouth College, Stan Dunten, said this all the time. That’s why I always send in …

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Software

GPT & Klavier.ai

4 April 20236 May 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I was playing with ChatGPT and Klavier.ai the other day. It purports to import documentation so that you can ask questions about it. I let it read in the PRQL …

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