Paging myself with email and a Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi polls an inbox, matches email subjects against a pattern, and fires off low-power POCSAG transmissions to a real pager. Here's how....
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Issues with MacOS Docker Desktop after changing your username
After changing your MacOS username, you might encounter issues with Docker Desktop not starting properly. This is often due to Docker’s internal paths still referencing the old username. The “Docker Desktop encountered an unexpected error and needs to close” message when starting Docker Desktop may reference the old path, and a “permission denied” error. For example: running engine: waiting for the VM setup to be ready: preparing VM: creating disk folder /Users/{old_username}/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/data: mkdir /Users/{old_username}: permission denied On MacOS, you need to edit the ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.docker/settings-store.json file to update the paths - in my case it was the DataFolder path that needed updating. ...
Parceljs segfault
Using Parceljs to build a project on my MacBook causes segfaults, malloc errors, and more!...
Mastodon Wrapped (glitch-soc edition)
Getting wrapstodon working on my glitch-soc instance...
Goodbye ASN
The shitpost ASN is (soon to be) no more...