Author: Allister
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Lightroom Classic Smart Previews… aren’t
I’m posting this short treatise because I spent hours today scouring the internet looking for this information and only found it in a forum post — not in countless blog posts on the topic. In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic (ugh, let’s call it LrC), as with most digital asset management systems, there is the concept…
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My iCloud Sync Failure Saga
It was mid 2019 and because my 2016 13” MacBook Pro was a secondary computer (to a 2018 Mac mini), I lasted only a few days past WWDC before installing the first developer beta of macOS Catalina. It was rough, to say the least, and many things didn’t work or only worked intermittently. Several betas…
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1987 Called…
I saw a linked item on John Gruber’s Daring Fireball web site today that made me go “Huh!” As in, that’s interesting, and a blast from the past.
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Why I’m No Longer Ruled by Activity Tracking
When the Apple Watch first arrived, its core strength was yet to be realised. In subsequent years the health aspects have come to the fore. I’m on my fourth model now (original, Series 3, Series 5, and Series 9) and I still enjoy having it on my wrist every day, but the obvious, there-from-the-beginning activity…
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On Right and Wrong
I wrote these words in late 2011 — I still believe in them today. No matter what you think, no matter what you believe, no matter your intentions, there will always be someone who disagrees. While the only meaningful course of action is to stand up for, stand behind your beliefs, just remember that –…
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RBG on Selective Deafness
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, quoted in a New York Times article… Another often-asked question when I speak in public: “Do you have some good advice you might share with us?” Yes, I do. It comes from my savvy mother-in-law, advice she gave me on my wedding day. “In every good marriage,” she counseled, “it helps sometimes…
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And Introducing…
The inaugural content appeared on this site on 6th February 2021, but I have not publicised the site’s existence until now. There’s a reason for that. In December 2020 Red Hat (now owned by IBM) announced that the Linux distribution CentOS was going to change course. CentOS has always been a ‘downstream’ version of Red…
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Add Glanceable Information to Your Mac Menu Bar with SwiftBar
This post is adapted from an original contribution I made to the NosillaCast Podcast. You can find the original post here, or listen to the audio recording I made in Episode 826. On an episode of the Upgrade podcast Jason Snell talked about an open source utility called BitBar. This utility puts customisable information in…
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Ngā manu
Have a look in the list below and see if you can pick out the Māori name for the bird also known as the New Zealand Fantail. Hīrairaka; Hītakataka; Hīwai; Hīwaiwaka; Hīwakawaka; Kōtiutiu; Pīrairaka; Pīrakaraka; Pīrangirangi; Pītakataka; Pīwaiwaka; Pīwakawaka; Tīaiaka; Tīaka; Tīakaaka; Tieaka; Tīrairaka; Tīrakaraka; Tītaiwaka; Tītakataka; Tītīrairaka; Tīwaiwaka; Tīwakawaka; Wakawaka If you picked the…
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Backing Up a WordPress Site
Since I last updated this article, I have moved even further away from fully-self hosting my web sites. I now use a managed server (and therefore still managed databases). This necessitated further adjusting my scripts to suit some differences in the way my host is now run. I will leave the article unaltered in this…