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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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Life

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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Life

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 202426 December 2025 - 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 20245 October 2025 - 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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