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
SQLite is my database engine of choice for simple, no-frills stuff, and has of late become popular enough for me not to have to bother compiling it from scratch anywhere.| Tao of Mac
The announcement cast this as the ultimate all-in-one PC, and while that might be a stretch, the Raspberry Pi 500 Plus is indeed interesting.| Tao of Mac
Azure Linux is Microsoft’s internal Linux distribution for 1st party services (cloud infra, IoT devices, etc.).| Tao of Mac
Screenshot of OcenaudioOcenaudio is a free, cross-platform audio editor that is easy to use and has a lot of features. It is a great alternative to Audacity, especially considering the recent changes in Audacity’s privacy policy and the way it looks like an online store now.| Tao of Mac
A hilarious satire of macOS Tahoe’s disastrous design changes as a fictional retrospective that compares them to other versions of macOS with a genial twist and a liberal sprinkling of mordant humor.| Tao of Mac
The Two Trees SK1 is a 3D printer that I have been using since early February 2024 and reviewed here.| 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 will keep my hard-earned peace, but had to make a note of this since it lasted much longer than I expected.| 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 has some issues that make me hesitant to pull the trigger.| 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 keeping notes about.| Tao of Mac
The Flashforge AD5X is an enclosed CoreXY 3D printer that I’ve found interesting for a few reasons and that I decided to start keeping notes on.| Tao of Mac
Nostalgia, in the inimitable style of Jamie Zawinski: “HTML email is probably my fault”. All of it is a great read–full marks, absolutely no notes.| Tao of Mac
I used to play with CB stuff before college and have poked at SDR on and off throughout the years, but never had much time to spend on it. Still, here are a few resources I’m keeping track of:| Tao of Mac
Comic Life was a Mac OS X application that made it easy (back in the day) to create your own comics from your iPhoto library.| Tao of Mac
Oh boy. I’m betting this wasn’t on AMD’s bingo card for 2025, especially now that their Ryzen AI Max APUs are making a splash with things like the Framework Desktop and because the “Intel x86 RTX SoCs” really sound like a direct challenge to AMD’s APU line.| 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 version that is wildly popular because it is a great piece of cross-platform software (I have tried it on Mac, Linux and the iPad with quite nice results).| Tao of Mac
These are probably Meta’s worst kept secret, since everyone was expecting them to put something like this together for a while now. | 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
Apple logoSteve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s company, if you remember that far back.| 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
The way Apple has pretty much set the Watch Series apart from the SE is by shipping more health features, and this is a nice one for them to...| The Tao of Staging
This is an auto-updated list of the last 20 weekly notes or so: Notes for September 15-21Notes for September 8–14Notes for August 18-31Notes...| 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
This is one of those times when I must say it is very frustrating that Apple not only killed the 12” MacBook but also refuses to make the iP...| 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
As part of my forays into LLMs and GPU compute “on the small” I’ve been playing around with the AceMagic AM18 in a few unusual ways.| Tao of Mac
Hot on the heels of getting borg assembled to go into my server closet, I decided to get myself a Beelink U59 Pro mini-PC to use as a beefie...| 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
I spent a few hours trying out UTM SE (which, if you’re new here, is a just-released version of the UTM front-end for QEMU that runs on iOS)...| 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
The other day I was trying to use my iPad to do some work and realized that WWDC had come and gone without any mention of a single feature 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
