Thoughts about Software, Networking, and Life
About eighteen months ago I migrated a small Javascript app to use Snowpack development tooling. (This was mostly for fun, I had already had it working with Webpack.) Snowpack claimed …
Migrating Snowpack to Vite (and Docker!) Read MoremacOS Monterey ships with a tool that measures the responsiveness of your network connection. It saturates the network with traffic for 20 seconds, then measures the rate of short transactions …
Using Apple’s RPM tool Read More[From the Archives of Amusing Technology…] Back in the ’90s, Dave Fisher and I created NameD•tective, a Macintosh control panel that gave any Mac on the Dartmouth network a static …
NameD•Tective — mDNS over AppleTalk Read MoreLast month, Comcast released a paper Improving Latency with Active Queue Management (AQM) During COVID-19 that shows that their PIE AQM dramatically decreases lag/latency (by a factor of 10X — …
Comcast modems decrease bufferbloat Read MoreA WireGuard VPN provides a fast, secure tunnel between endpoints. It uses public/private key pairs to encrypt the data. If you have several clients, you have to enter their public …
WireGuard Vanity Keys Read MoreI use Jetpack Publicize to share my posts on Facebook and Twitter. This makes it easy to create a single WordPress post and have it show up on social media …
Jetpack Publicize: Setting the image and text shown on Twitter and Facebook Read MoreI have reworked my blog so that the primary domain name is “Random Neurons Firing” (instead of the pedestrian richb-hanover.com). Same content, but a better name. I’m also adding a …
RandomNeuronsFiring.com – now live! Read MoreA while back, I was greatly confused by SQLite date and time functions. It took me a while to figure out what was wrong. (It was my error: I hadn’t …
SQLite Date and Time Functions – explained Read MoreI have been using Local by Flywheel and really enjoying it. It does two things: You can stand up a development version of a WordPress site on your laptop and …
Local by Flywheel won’t start because it’s regenerating Docker Machine TLS certificates Read MoreConnecting ResNexus and TripAdvisor We wanted our room availability to show up in TripAdvisor and other online services. There are two basic steps, where you tell Reservation Nexus and TripAdvisor …
Linking Reservation Nexus and TripAdvisor Read More