I'm a 36 year old UIUC Computer Engineer building easy to use tech to simplify our complicated lives with an interest in golang, rust, 3D printing, ESP32 and Arduinos.
Where Ollama Save Models on Mac
If you are downloading a few models to try out, you will quickly see your disk space start running down. Thankfully if you have external storage, its pretty easy to move files off of your main drive. ~/.ollama How to copy models off and on So the hard part is the models are a few different files, so you can just copy the largest file [...]
Rocketchat AWS SES Settings
I always struggle to find which AWS SES option you need to set to make apps work with it for regular SMTP. For rocketchat, I recommend using smtps mode on port 2465. Go to <domain>/admin/settings/Email Or on left sidebar of home, three dots > Administration > Workspace Settings (at the bottom left) > Email > SMTP openanalytics 604436 [...]
Keycodes for WeChip W1 Universal TV Remote
The WeChip W1 AirMouse is a nice usb remote that has some strange keycodes setup. Thankfully for most OS you can do a keyboard remap and get these to what you want. Windows – SharpKeysMac – Karabiner ElementsLinux – Xmodmap Keycodes Power button is not any keycode, it sends a command that triggers the dongle to usb [...]
Making Powershell more Bash-like
I realize powershell is its own thing and I’m not trying to turn it into Bash. But I work on windows, mac and linux machines throughout my day and often end up typing in bash commands into powershell to get the dreaded error message: Then have to translate it into something that works for powershell. To be fair, I am [...]
sedplus – Easier SED tool for Mac, Linux and Windows
SED is a powerful stream editor if you can get the syntax right. It was originally created in 1973 by Lee McMahon of Bell Labs as one of the first tools to support Regular Expression (RegEx) and appears in many bash scripts today. sedplus isn’t trying to replace everything that sed does, but as an alternative for [...]
Helpful Mac CLI Settings
Mac tries to be the os where everything just works, but there are actually a lot of really powerful and useful settings that do not appear anywhere in the UI. This is a growing list of the hidden options that I use. Show hidden files Open finder to a folder Press Command + Shift + . (period key) Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network [...]
Simple Free Open Source MP3 CLI Tag Editor
There are lots of mp3 tag editors out there, but I wanted a simpler cross platform solution. This cli runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and offers a minimalist quick way to make bulk changes. https://github.com/szazeski/mp3edit To just view current tags of file(s), you can pass To make a changes, you have a variety of flags that you can [...]