Synology walks back HDD/SSD lock-in policy - Tao of Mac
I’m happy that sanity prevailed, although not in time to prevent me from getting a second (non-Synology) NAS–which I suspect is what many se...| Tao of Mac
Remember Sky, the app created by the former Shortcuts team at Apple?| Tao of Mac
Apple will never acknowledge how badly Liquid Glass failed as a design concept, but at least they’re trying to make it more usable. And this time they’re not even trying to disguise it as an accessibility feature, it’s actually a top level setting that should never have been needed in the first place.| Tao of Mac
zebra is a cisco-like router package for linux and bsd operating systems that supports IPv6, BGP and OSPF, mostly superseded by quagga these days.| Tao of Mac
This is a stub to start gathering some resources on Swift, which won several of my personal awards for “most breakages between major releases” and has therefore not been something I’ve invested a lot of time on.| Tao of Mac
The new hotness in the Linux container space (because nobody remembers LXC anymore).| Tao of Mac
Nice to see Apple Silicon continues to evolve apace, although every year I have to add bigger pinches of salt to the performance claims.| Tao of Mac
It’s been ten years since I joined Microsoft, and I’ve made it a point to mark the occasion (almost) every year, so why stop now?| Tao of Mac
Looks pretty, although the fact that it cannot beat a 5090 in inference should tip you off that it’s designed to hold a lot of RAM, not necessarily be on the bleeding edge of performance.| Tao of Mac
Phoenix is a very barebones macOSwindow manager that is scriptable via JavaScript, and which I have taken to instead of Moom to a degree.| Tao of Mac
I have been rather too busy hopping from project to project to do anything but read and watching a little TV in the evenings, as well as a bit annoyed by more industry disturbances and layoffs.| Tao of Mac
HomeKit is Apple’s home automation solution, which revolves around the Home Accessory Protocol (HAP).| Tao of Mac
Window managers on macOS (and Windows) are auxiliary programs that try to complement the system’s own handling of windows, and are not as powerful as X11 window managers. However, there are a few exceptions, and as I started using bigger and bigger (and more) displays I’ve been using them on a daily basis.| Tao of Mac
Node-RED is a visual programming environment that is commonly associated with IoT but which I’ve been increasingly using for prototyping and automating other things (including front-ends I’d otherwise create in AppSmith or similar).| Tao of Mac
I’m happy that sanity prevailed, although not in time to prevent me from getting a second (non-Synology) NAS–which I suspect is what many se...| Tao of Mac
Feel free to pick out something from the following wishlists, which have stuff I (or my kids) would enjoy: Amazon US (Books only) Amazon DE ...| Tao of Mac
This site does not track visitors, nor does it use cookies or any other form of tracking technology I do, however, have a few third-party se...| Tao of Mac
This is a meta page that will eventually list all applications referred to on this site.| Tao of Mac
EEZ Studio is a free and open source IDE for embedded graphics development that supports LVGL and common Arduino targets like the ESP32 with a visual and “low code” layout experience. It generates code that can be compiled and uploaded to displays using the Arduino IDE or PlatformIO, and is actually the basis for a few commercial embedded display toolkits.| Tao of Mac
Mixed feelings. Lots of mixed feelings. Qualcomm has been promoting quite a few new development kits over the past year or so, and of course Arduino has tremendous mindshare, but that was built upon pretty agnostic and far-reaching microcontroller support, so it will be interesting to see how this evolves.| Tao of Mac
The Tao of Mac is the personal wiki of Rui Carmo, featuring a technology-oriented blog, links to articles, several compilations of resources around various key technology topics, and a collection of photos and videos.| Tao of Mac
A rather hectic week as work ramps up again and I start to progressively lose control of my calendar, but I’ve managed to slowly accrete som...| Tao of Mac
I have been having a highly unusual couple of weeks (which included recovering from a bout of food poisoning that hit the day after my last ...| Tao of Mac
Around this time every year, nostalgia kicks in and I am reminded of my telco years.| Tao of Mac
I’m going to go right out on a limb here and put in writing that I had a ringside seat to watch RIM’s downfall, that it was like watching an...| Tao of Mac
Once in a while, I get e-mail asking me how the telco industry works.| Tao of Mac
My summer break in 2014 had a theme of sorts, which was “back to basics”. I wanted to forget everything I could about work and fiddle with more interesting stuff – less abstractions, less wondering, more concrete, down-to-earth stuff.| Tao of Mac
The Snapmaker U1 is a very interesting tool-changer 3D printer with four independent nozzles that I would love to get my hands on, but that ...| Tao of Mac
The Elegoo Centauri Carbon is an enclosed CoreXY 3D printer that I’ve found interesting for a few reasons and that I decided to start keepin...| Tao of Mac
The Flashforge AD5X is an open frame CoreXY 3D printer that I’ve found interesting for a few reasons and that I decided to start keeping not...| Tao of Mac
DaVinci Resolve is a professional video editing and color grading software developed by Blackmagic Design, and it happens to have a free ver...| Tao of Mac
Following my little saga with the iPad OS beta, I upgraded a few of my Apple devices, including one of my Macs, to the final release version...| Tao of Mac
As I’ve been writing about once or twice, I’ve recently upgraded my Wi-Fi after an attempt to use ISP-provided equipment to replace my remar...| Tao of Mac
Summer break is now completely over, so I did my usual Summer “cleansing”—disabling notifications from annoying apps, unsubscribing from a f...| Tao of Mac
The guidelines I follow for publishing anything are: It’s publicly available info (i.| Tao of Mac
The WRT54g is a Linksys router/access point with a Broadcom 802.| Tao of Mac
This is one of those pieces of gear that I’ve sat in front of for years and never actually wrote about–either because it was too obvious, or...| Tao of Mac
The 3D printing world has been abuzz over the past couple of weeks with this, and after watching pretty much all the (p)reviews I could find...| Tao of Mac
vim is my editor of choice, simply due to the fact that I find it extremely efficient (and readily available everywhere).| The Tao of Staging
Josef Prusa dissects the current state of open hardware in desktop 3D printing in blunt terms (and yes, the headline really tells you everyt...| Tao of Mac
The Tao of Mac is the personal wiki of Rui Carmo, featuring a technology-oriented blog, links to articles, several compilations of resources around various key technology topics, and a collection of photos and videos.| Tao of Mac
With all that’s been happening over the past couple of months, it’s been hard to keep a steady pace of hardware reviews, so this is going to...| Tao of Mac
In retrospect, I find it vaguely amusing that “doomscrolling” only really took off during the pandemic, because, well, for me it started a l...| Tao of Mac
I’ve been trying to use Blender since what feels like the dawn of time, but its notoriously opinionated user interface clearly hasn’t stuck,...| Tao of Mac
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a Debian-based system that focuses on providing enterprise-grade LXC and KVM management capabilities, and tha...| Tao of Mac
Stuff that proved useful to some extent: Resources: Date Link Notes 2010 Apr 12 N/A Two snippets to change brightness by simulating the righ...| Tao of Mac
My quest for high-powered ARM development boards has progressed a bit spottily over the past few weeks, but after almost three months of tes...| Tao of Mac
Strangely enough for a Mac/iOS user, I have spent a lot of time using Linux throughout the years, but mostly on servers.| Tao of Mac
Visual Studio Code became my de facto default editor (well, other than vim back in 2016 (years before I joined Microsoft) simply because it ...| Tao of Mac
After a faithful nine years of service, I decided to replace my Synology DS411j with a brand new DS1019+.| Tao of Mac
A very satisfactory week, at least on a personal level.| Tao of Mac
The launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 was a bit… underwhelming, to be honest.| Tao of Mac
Armbian is a community-driven project that provides a number of Linux distributions for a wide range of ARM-based single board computers, in...| Tao of Mac
This site has been around for over 20 years, so it was only natural that I would write about stuff I purchased.| Tao of Mac
This is going to be another non-Apple post, but for a good reason: As I wrote about the other day, my lovely, svelte and ultralight E111 die...| Tao of Mac
Following the MacBook Pro debacle and the current lack of prospects for desktop Macs, I decided I wasn’t going to wait around for Apple.| Tao of Mac
It’s time for another hardware post, this time about an Intel N100 machine–and yes, I definitely have too many machines at this point, but t...| Tao of Mac
As you may have read in the news, Microsoft decided to lay off several hundred people from Strategic Missions and Technologies and reorganiz...| Tao of Mac
It’s been a while since I wrote about networking gear, largely because I used to spend a good while working on it and that broke my disclaim...| Tao of Mac
Python is one of my favorite programming languages due to its terseness and amazing flexibility, and after decades using it I find it quite ...| Tao of Mac
