The idea of building a DIY synth is certainly not new, I’m sure you can easily find projects in magazines going back 50 years or so, but it required good familiarity with discrete components. While that really hasn’t changed all Read more…
WordPress Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) is fantastic, allows you a simple way to add data and metadata to each post, but by default it doesn’t display or allow you to query on it. I wanted a type to allow me Read more…
The above are two of my favorite software packages at the moment. So powerful and I’m very content to run it on my own hardware, in house! In order to get it to work though, I needed one more great Read more…
My site was hacked again the other day – this is common enough for WordPress sites. If you’re not on top of it you could have it hacked, pretty much automatically. This part I knew. It still got hacked, and Read more…
I wrote about TuneFab m4v converter a while back, mostly to get a discount. Bottom line, it worked quite well, though the UI was a bit janky. Well, I’ve been using it a bit since then, and yup the UI Read more…
I have hated the MFi program for game controllers for a long time now. Cheap and expensive controllers for a handful of games. There was no valid tech reason for Apple to restrict their OS to their own protocol for Read more…
I’ve been a huge fan of 1Password since the beginning. I bought several versions and upgrades for multiple machines and never regretted it. Something happened with version 7 though, and I haven’t been as happy with the change. What happened Read more…
I have been archiving all of my purchased media for quite some time now, I like the flexibility of a digital copy, but also flexibility to view it how and where I choose (i.e. Plex). That usually means a lot Read more…
First of all, let me say “hi there, Googlers!” I owned the M-Audio StudioPro 3 speakers for quite a few years before they started to fail on me. They were not too bad, gave decent sound at reasonable desktop volume. Read more…
Despite my earlier misgivings, I got a biggie size phone – the iPhone 8 Plus. After lots of research and analysis, I realized an error in my previous logic. I said: It loses the magic of convenience that is so Read more…