I haven’t been updating this site very often. Upon reflection, I decided that this is in part because the Jekyll workflow that I switched to was… inconvenient. It would be possible to hack around this. I could have written some sort of simple web-app which generated a new post, committed it to git, pushed it …
Author Archives: kemayo
Migrating an existing Apple ID to “child” status
Last year Apple introduced child accounts, so that children under the age of 13 could have Apple IDs without having to lie about their age. This was a sensible move! However, it left those of us who had already made an account for a child (by lying about their age) a bit in the lurch, …
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Hubot
My employer has long used Skype as a team communication tool. This has some drawbacks, as I found myself complaining about way back in 2011, mostly that Skype is very much not optimized for big long-running rooms, particularly on mobile devices. Given this, why have we stuck with it? If we switch, everyone in the …
Video Kiled the Tutorial Stars
I loathe having to watch a video or listen to audio to extract information, and would far prefer to read an article explaining the same information. It’s therefore unfortunate that most of the time when I want to find out how to do something nowadays, a google search will turn up almost-exclusively video results. Particularly …
kindergarten
I once claimed that I have a daughter. I now claim that she has just started in kindergarten. She’ll be going to a language immersion school, where she’ll learn Chinese.
Hosting Switch
Recently I switched my personal hosting from Dreamhost to WebFaction. I’d been butting up against the resource limits on Dreamhost’s cheap plan for ages, and an annoying multi-day outage was the last straw. The outage was actually pretty interesting, in its way. I discovered that all sites served from a particular user account were having …
Startup Knowledge Ruined A Movie For Me
I was at the gym the other day, and a movie called The Darkest Hour came on. Now, this turns out to be a movie which has general consensus as being Not Good (12% on Rotten Tomatoes, etc). However, the thing which first threw me out of my suspension of disbelief was an early scene …
Maphilight for jQuery 1.9.0
jQuery 1.9 was released recently, and removed some things that have long been labeled as deprecated. This broke maphilight slightly, since it was still doing a few checks on $.browser. I’ve just fixed that. As always, the latest version is available on github.
Switching from Android to iPhone
Back in March-ish of 2011 I got an Android phone. It was an Optimus V, which means it was cheap (about $150, no carrier subsidy) and limited, but was available with an actual reasonably-priced no-contract plan ($25/month). Since I can’t bring myself to pay the crazy rates you Americans seem to pay your phone carriers, …
I am not this hotel’s customer
I’m on vacation at the moment, in Chicago, and my experience of staying in a hotel here has caused a fairly predictable reaction in me. It has made me realize: I am not the customer here. Or, to be more precise, I do not represent the primary demographic this hotel considers its customers to come …