You ever spent a significant chunk of time configuring a computer just so? I’ve been doing a bit of that recently during my recuperation period. Got it all nicely configured, even have some online backups going and then BAM! Bye bye ssd ☹️

I’ve found this tip quite useful. With my new Macbook Pro I now have more disks attached consistently then I did previously. Not having these disks automatically mount when I come back to my desk is quite helpful. Extra tip: make sure you put the correct filesystem type in the fstab. I have a spinning disk formatted as HFS+ and missed that when copying/pasting the first go around.

Mark Rober sure does come up with some interesting ideas. The question is will my Tweet (are they still called tweets after switching to X?) make it to the satellite to be displayed and captured over the Earth? Time will tell.

I came across this lengthy article on backing up your computer which I found interesting. I’ve read thru it twice now and I am still working on digesting the strategy employed. I can see how some of this could be relevant for a project I’m undertaking but running my own NAS in my current environment may not be feasible.

This year I did a better job of tracking my reading but still not using any specific tool like Goodreads. My wife started reading the Dresden Files series so I paused my reading while she caught up to where I was in the series.