Improve your Mac’s Audio Output
I’m a huge audio person, but I am not an audiophile. I think you can have amazing sound without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars of equipment or even buying additional equipment. It used to be with analog audio you needed specialized equipment to produce amazing sound. But in the digital era, almost all [...]
Google App Engine Bulkloader Refreshing due to a 401 Loop
Developing apps on Google App Engine can be difficult when your production servers have a dataset that is hard to reproduce on your local development servers. Thankfully Google App Engine includes a very useful tool to do bulkloading. To download your data from production: appcfg.py download_data [...]
Can an Asus EB1033 mini computer run Windows 10?
No, it starts Windows 10 setup, copies all of the files and then restarts with the following error on boot up. Install Windows – The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click “OK” to restart the computer, and then restart [...]
Rattle Noise on 862D Solder Station
I’m really quite happy with the 862D+ soldering station, it heats quickly, user controllable temperature and overall good design. Except my unit rattles. Oddly, only when it is under no load (when both soldering and hot air disabled). At first I thought this was a fan inside that wasn’t well tightened. But to my [...]
Building Floating Shelf with Wine Glass Rack
After looking at a few different stores, I was very disappointed with the sizing selection of floating shelf and that most wine glass brackets are too long to install under anything but cabinets. So I set off to build my own. The Design Floating shelves are purposely designed to be thick as a way to hide the standard L [...]