Thoughts about Software, Networking, and Life
There are lots of good Internet speed tests, such as Waveform, Cloudflare, or Speedtest.net. Unfortunately, these mix your ISP's performance with your local router/network so it's hard to tease out …
Making Local Speed Tests Read MoreInserting an image in a post: Image appears below… Image appears above. Can I update this?
Another Wordland test Read MoreA while back, I saw a project called zoomready that I thought might be a useful tool for watching a network connection (even though it was Win-only, and I’m a …
VSee Network Stability Test Read MoreFind the GUI on wordland.social
Second Wordland post Read MoreI’m often called upon by my neighbors to troubleshoot their crummy network connections. I already have good advice for solving bad latency caused by bufferbloat but I also hear, “My …
Playing with WiFi heatmaps Read MoreI'm checking out Wordland. Let's see if this actually posts to my Random Neurons Firing site… Hokey pokey! It did! This is very cool. It seems to hit all the …
Testing out Wordland Read MoreI really like the Crusader network test application for measuring network throughput and latency. It’s cross-platform and provides a useful reference for network measurements. But the macOS binary opens a …
Creating a macOS application bundle Read MoreI 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 …
Creating a macOS iconset (.icns) file Read MoreI’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 …
QStudio & PRQL – a pretty good match Read MoreIf 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 …
Configure a “spare router” Read More