I found this post in the ‘Drafts’ folder from 2013 – evidently I started writing, got distracted, and forgot about it. It’s interesting to me even now because the aesthetics of iOS have been stuck in iOS 7 ever since. I still don’t like the look, the design language, how many things operate – the… Read more
A diskutil bug unceremoniously erased an entire hard drive of mine a few weeks back. While I was able to successfully (AFAICT) restore the drive’s contents to it from various backups, the erasure gave the drive a new identity (UUID, specifically). The next time Time Machine ran, it compounded the diskutil bug by also unceremoniously… Read more
Having spent a week or so using the Z7 – though still not as much as I’d like, given the continued need to work for a living – I have some further thoughts, beyond / expanding upon my very first impressions. Autofocus Photo mode Autofocus is a problem. It is very clear that the Z7’s AF… Read more
This is in the context of coming from a D500 (and a number of DX DSLRs prior to that), and is based only on the first hour or so of using it.
I’ve been using ffmpeg to trim clips from a trail camera, as most of the time there’s only a few seconds of anything interesting in frame out of the 30+ seconds of video it records each time, but I don’t want to re-encode them and lose video quality as a result (or balloon file sizes… Read more
Note: this guide was written circa macOS 10.13 High Sierra, in 2018. Its accuracy has not been verified for newer macOS releases. Curiously there’s very little information out on the web (at time of writing) on how to create (or expand) a Fusion Drive without erasing its contents first. It’s entirely possible to do so… Read more
You might have heard the aphorism “Perfect is the enemy of good“. If you’re in a technical field, you’ve probably used it, or had it used against you, to shut down a conversation. It’s an effective way to do so because it insinuates that the target is thinking impractically, not focused on the problem at… Read more