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Geoff Oliver
06 Jan 2025 • Geoff Oliver

New features in my blog

Inspired again by Dave Winer - specifically his work on WordLand - I decided that I did want to have a WYSIWYG editor on my blog. So I took the weekend (give or take) and implemented the medium-editor without too many problems. Here's hoping that it not being updated in fore...

Geoff Oliver
04 Dec 2024 • Geoff Oliver

Palmer Luckey’s Defense Company Is Selling Loot Boxes of Drone Parts to Its Fans

Palmer Luckey - one more way Facebook has fucked us. If they hadn't bought Oculus from this guy, maybe he'd be some weird incel making VR headsets in his basement. Instead, he's making weapons and trying to make the defense industry cool for some reason. Fuck this guy and everything about him.

Geoff Oliver
03 Dec 2024 • Geoff Oliver

csvbase - a simple web database

csvbase is a simple website for sharing table data — with a REST API

Very cool.

Geoff Oliver
03 Dec 2024 • Geoff Oliver

The Automatic Battery Charger You Never Knew You Needed

This could be a very fun project.

Geoff Oliver
03 Dec 2024 • Geoff Oliver

Lutron Caseta switches

I’ve got quite a few of them installed. Love ‘em.

Geoff Oliver
01 Dec 2024 • Geoff Oliver

Saving a Samsung TV From the Dreaded Boot Loop

One bad bit killed an entire TV. Ridiculous.

Geoff Oliver
27 Nov 2024 • Geoff Oliver

Lucide

Some nice looking icons that I might have to use in my next project. Thanks joshtronic!

Geoff Oliver
24 Nov 2024 • Geoff Oliver

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Computers are fun :)

Geoff Oliver
22 Nov 2024 • Geoff Oliver

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Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and Paul Ryan walk into a bar. The bartender serves them tainted alcohol because there are no regulations. They die.

Geoff Oliver
15 Nov 2024 • Geoff Oliver

OpenGarage

I'll be getting one of these for sure.

Geoff Oliver
05 Nov 2024 • Geoff Oliver

My RSS feeds

Inspired by Dave Winer's post about sharing his RSS feed subscriptions, I decided that sounded like a pretty cool idea for my blog, too! So now you can go to my Following page and click the Download OPML link (or just click that link ;-)) to grab a copy of the RSS feeds I follow! It will auto-update whenever I update my "Following" list.

Geoff Oliver
04 Nov 2024 • Geoff Oliver

An interpretation of the classic CandyBar icon for modern macOS.

I sure do miss all the fun customization you used to be able to do on a Mac.

Geoff Oliver
19 Oct 2024 • Geoff Oliver

Did you know you can (technically) cut and paste in the Finder?

I definitely did know this, but I never bothered to look up how to do it. TLDR is just command+c and then option+command+v where you want to move the file. Definitely going to remember this one.