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An interesting problem I encountered when moving to use Linux more is that git …

Do not feed evil, or it will surely grow.

MacOS 15.7.2 seems to have fixed my issue with very slow Touch ID on awakening. …

Since MacOS 15.7.1, the touch ID (fingerprint reader) often takes a while to bec…

Yesterday evening I went to Blossom to see the Cleveland Orchestra perform Carmi…

Looks like my Macbook Air (2020 Intel) will not be supported for the next major …

Finally got the One UI 7 / Android 15 update on my phone (Samsung S24) today. 1…

My server was on Ubuntu 20.04, but due to the end-of-life of that LTS version n…

Our life is a giant puzzle, with a great many pieces that must be fit together t…

To all wrongdoers, may you see, and atone

I haven't been able to upgrade composer with homebrew to version 2.7.7 (on Intel…

For some reason, the Homebrew version of composer hasn't been working recently,…

I have finally, effectively, fully said goodbye to Dreamhost after around 14 yea…

I recently updated to Mac OS version 13 (Ventura). It mostly went smoothly, bu…

I have finally shut down my DreamCompute server on Dreamhost after my recent fo…

My server, and with it my blog, a client site, and other web properties, was do…

I went to my first Cleveland Orchestra concert at Blossom since the pandemic. T…

I updated to Mac OS Monterey (12.5) finally. It went smoothly but I'm still wor…

PHP's defacto package manager, composer, has long required large amounts of mem…

Dreamhost has added a nicer DNS management interface, along with some other upda…

Deploying updates to my site with a composer lock file seemed slower since updat…

I see that composer has released its 2.0 version. Nice. My biggest hope of imp…

Happy new year. 2020 has been a long year in some ways, but also went by quick …

I spent some time playing with my Raspberry Pi's this weekend. I took advantage…

For Ubuntu servers, I use the unattended-upgrades package to automate keeping t…

I reduced my political and philosophical postings since combining my personal an…

There was another DreamCompute incident leading to downtime of my site / server…

I feel quite relieved having finally detached the rusted on wheel hub and backin…

It has been a long, weird evening, with a lot of time spent on computer updates …

I transferred this site's domain (tobymackenzie.com) from Dreamhost to Porkbun.…

I did some gardening after work today, moving some of my just-sprouting hostas f…

In light of the current situation, I have decided to re-read Andromeda Strain. …

I recently tried to install vagrant on a Mac OS X.11 (El Capitan) machine, but …

WordPress offers the has_excerpt() method to determine if you create a separate…

An advantage of having a Pixel phone is that I got the upgrade to Android 10 on …

This site was down tonight, possibly for a couple hours, seemingly due to anothe…

I went to see the Cleveland Orchestra perform at Blossom this evening, likely my…

I was able to get wi-fi working on my recent Ubuntu install, but not with the bu…

I installed Ubuntu on my Windows tablet this weekend. I've been meaning to do s…

Saturday, I saw the Cleveland Orchestra perform at Blossom. My mom and dad, and…

I went to see the recording of Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me at Blossom last Thursd…

Yesterday, I went to see the Cleveland Orchestra's Rhapsody in Blue performance …

Everything has a cost. Everything we have, do, don't. It may be money, time, e…

Apparently at some unknown point in the past, Github changed something about the…

I lost my iPod for several days. Relieved to have found it. I was digging all …

My server and site were down for about 16 hours from Tuesday evening (≈18:08)…

So, this site was down for like 16 hours due to a botched update of DreamCompute…

Last Friday, I went to the Indians game with my dad. They lost, but came close …

Yesterday, I went to the Star Wars performance by the Cleveland Orchestra. They…

I saw the Cleveland Orchestra's Carmina Burana performance this weekend with my …