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The perfect clock

2019-08-272019-08-27 by mike

I’ve had a life long hobby quest to find the perfect clock. I’ve always wanted a clock that you didn’t have to set. One that survives a power outage. One that automatically springs forward and falls back. One that remains accurate. Years ago in my early adulthood I discovered the so called “atomic clocks”. The […]

Running multiple versions of mysql on a mac simultaneously, installed with homebrew

2019-01-102019-01-10 by mike

First I found this helpful doc which got me part of the way there. Intention on that gist was only to be able to switch back and forth, not running simultaneously. https://gist.github.com/ivanvermeyen/c2dfb8ad55a4fb699c5913a09422c1d9#cleanup Basically; * First wipe all mysql instances off * Install the first mysql with homebrew * Change the data dir to a version […]

Use a common bash command history for all bash sessions

2018-04-022018-04-02 by mike

Bash command history has a problematic default configuration. Basically there is a single ~/.bash_history file that each bash shell reads at startup. If you start multiple bash’s then they’ll have identical history to begin with. So far so good. The first problem is that bash does not write new commands to ~/.bash_history until the process […]

Why I’ll never use Postman

2018-03-222018-03-22 by mike

I’m talking about this Postman https://www.getpostman.com/ So, the essence of this “Why I’ll never use Postman” would be that, because I’m well versed, fluent in the command line environment I simply don’t need something like Postman. Postman is a single special purpose utility. Where as the command line environment is a whole very powerful interface […]

Blockchain to save the world

2018-01-212018-01-21 by mike

Very interesting article https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html

Responsive Photo Album

2017-07-052017-07-05 by mike

I wanted a responsive photo album unlike anything I could find, plus I prefer to host all my photos myself. So I wrote this with node on the backend and just plain javascript on the front end + just a little bit of jquery. Here’s the app: http://spa.1mikemakuch.com/ and source: https://github.com/1MikeMakuch/photoalbum

Does Sears.com stand a chance in hell of competing with Amazon?

2017-06-242017-06-24 by mike

So last night I surf over to Amazon to buy a couple of hex keys (aka allen wrenches). I couldn’t readily find the single items I needed (as opposed to complete sets) at Amazon so I googled around and found ’em at sears.com. Merchandise total $2.84, shipping $34.19. I went back to Amazon and found […]

Piping shell commands

2017-03-292017-03-29 by mike

I did some looking at my shell history for the past year or so and made some casual observations, here: Most used shell commands and wanted to single out a number of commands and pipes that might be interesting to someone. What follows is a handful of commands from my shell history, from the last […]

Most used shell commands

2017-03-292017-03-29 by mike

I remember reading that “ls” was the most commonly used shell command. Not sure why I thought about it today but, it dawned on me that I could easily calculate it directly from my shell command history. Years ago I went about configuring my shell command history options to my liking. Among several others are […]

Portfolio

2016-07-282016-07-28 by mike

Here’s some of the software I’ve built. I have more experience on backends but I’ve built several frontends as well. This is a responsive brochure site I created, July 2017 This is a responsive SPA I built in spring 2017. It’s a web app to display sets of photos. Node on the back end and […]