Speeding up Slow Time Machine Backups on macOS
I’ve been a long-Time Apple Time Machine for many years and it’s saved me many times. I back up to a Synology NAS drive configured with Time Machine support. Time Machine has always been fast and efficient until I upgraded to macOS El Capitan (10.11). During that time, backups could...
Amazon.com Provides Some of the Worst Customer Service
The title says it all, Amazon.com provides some of the worst customer service. Just try to contact them and see for yourself. They are so big that they create their own rules and we have to live by them. I placed an order last night and here is the email...
Ruby on Rails - Supporting SSL for PostgreSQL on Heroku
For anyone who received this notice from Heroku:
Fixing Your Puma-dev SSL Problems on Google Chrome
Ruby on Rails developers have it made in many ways. We rely on and take advantage of great software created by the community. Puma-dev is just one of those great pieces of software. Puma-dev has some nice improvements over Pow, which Basecamp had promoted for years but has seemed to...
ABC Family - Terrible User Experience from a Company Who Should Know Better
Somehow I was added to an email list from ABC Family, specifically Freeform. This is a channel that airs children’s TV shows. Much of their content is terrible but I’m not their target audience. I have been receiving emails about new programming being added to their lineup. Our daughter is...
Complacency kills.
Matthew Dicks explaining so well, what we should all already know and strive to do:
The Best User Experience is the Simple User Experience
We recently started using a Bunn coffee maker. The design of the unit is really simple, no fancy controls to figure out. No time to keep resetting after the power goes out. No keeping track of how long we have left until it automatically shuts off. Just fill with water,...
A Nice, Welcome Reminder
I was out trail running with a friend this past weekend when we stopped because we had taken a wrong turn. We looked down and at the base of the tree we were standing next to, we saw this rock with a message written on it. It was funny because...
Fixing Missing Sublime Text 3 Package Manager
I’ve been a big fan and long-time user of Sublime Text 3. Recently, I ran into a problem where Package Control stopped working. When I say, not working, I mean behaving as though I never installed it. Attempting to install or remove packages was not even an option any longer....