Joeveo's Temperfect mug cools scalding coffee to 145F fast, then holds it drinkable for 3 hours. Two years late from Kickstarter, but it works.
3 min read
The Plum Lightpad dimmer looks great and installs cleanly, but a weak iOS app and no smart home integrations make it hard to recommend.
3 min read
Every book I read in 2016, from The Big Short to Thing Explainer, with short reviews. Mostly entertainment, plus computing and biographies.
8 min read
How to segment IoT devices like Hue, Sonos, and Ring onto their own network with Ubiquiti UniFi, keeping them away from your home LAN.
12 min read
The first weekly update of the relaunched blog covers learning to fly drones, the move to Ghost, and Evanta CIO Summit talks on the East Coast.
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Don't fly your new drone on day one, you'll wreck it. Learn throttle control indoors on a $25 quadcopter first. Here's the method I used.
5 min read
Why I moved my blog from self-hosted WordPress on Amazon EC2 to Ghost Pro after six years, with inspiration and a theme from Troy Hunt.
3 min read
After a decade as VP/CIO, I joined ServiceNow as an Evangelist and moved my family to Silicon Valley. Why I made the leap and what comes next.
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ServiceNow reclaims idle developer instances. I pulled my keep-alive workaround and explain why an approval workflow is the better fix.
2 min read
The SmushBox SMS gateway lost its unlimited T-Mobile plan and Smush Mobile looks dead. How I revived mine with an AT&T GoPhone SIM.
7 min read
iBank for iPhone tries to be both a standalone app and a desktop companion, and does neither well. WebDAV sync setup was a fight from day one.
6 min read
Invalid sys_class_name values can break CMDB list views in ServiceNow. How to find and fix the bad CIs with a background script.
5 min read
Keyspan's driver died under OS X 10.9 Mavericks. How to get PL2303 USB serial adapters like the ATEN UC232A working with an open source kext.
2 min read
The PadPivot promised a handy lap and desk stand for the iPad, but fiddly assembly and a snapping tension ring sank it for me.
3 min read