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Testing out Wordland

25 December 202425 February 2025 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

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 …

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Creating a macOS application bundle

26 November 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

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 …

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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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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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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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Life / Networking

Save money while keeping latency low

12 February 20236 May 2024 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I often hear people saying they have bad responsiveness / high latency on their high-speed internet connection. Even though they have a contract for 500 mbps+ service from their ISP, …

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uBlock Origin and other blockers

12 February 202312 February 2023 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

Many people are surprised to hear that their web browsing doesn’t have to be crowded out by intrusive ads. There is an entire industry of “ad blockers” and “content blockers” …

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Life

Astonishing Lidar View of NH

12 October 202031 December 2020 - by Rich Brown - 2 Comments.

The NH Stone Wall Mapper project uses Lidar data to display small variations in ground elevation. A UNH project built this map to identify stone walls in the state. This …

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