Playing with WiFi heatmaps
I’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 MoreAuthor: Rich Brown
Testing out Wordland
I'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 MoreCreating a macOS application bundle
I 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 MoreCreating a macOS iconset (.icns) file
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 …
Creating a macOS iconset (.icns) file Read MoreQStudio & PRQL – a pretty good match
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 …
QStudio & PRQL – a pretty good match Read MoreConfigure a “spare router”
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 …
Configure a “spare router” Read MoreOPNsense Fights Bufferbloat
@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
OPNsense Fights Bufferbloat Read MoreExceLint is working again
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, …
ExceLint is working again Read MorePRQL Dockerfile works again
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 …
PRQL Dockerfile works again Read MoreAll the “reasons” that bufferbloat isn’t a problem
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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