Category: Annoyances

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Lots of common sense stuff but also some useful tips…

  • Do your dirty stuff inside your own fork.
  • When you are on a feature branch, always rebase or pull –rebase.
  • To make the history look more meaningful and modular, make use of git add -p and git rebase –i
  • Never rebase any shared branch onto your feature branch and force push to any shared branch.

Source: Resistance Against London Tube Map Commit History (a.k.a. Git Merge Hell) | Tugberk @ the Heart of Software

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Bookmarking this for my wife’s old car…

  1. Unlock all doors using the power door lock switch on door panel.
  2. Turn ignition from OFF to ON 8 times within 10 seconds, with the 8th time ending in ON. Door locks will cycle to confirm programming mode. (*ON is as far forward as you can turn without starting the vehicle*)
  3. Within 20 seconds press any button on first keyless remote. Door locks will cycle to confirm programming.
  4. Within 20 seconds, press any button on a second keyless remote. Door locks will cycle again to confirm programming. (*If you only have one remote to program skip step 4*)
  5. Turn ignition to OFF. Locks will again cycle to indicate end of programming mode.

Source: How To Program A Ford Focus Remote Key Fob 2008 – 2011 – YouTube

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I love the privacy of the Brave browser but a couple of things made me decide to switch back to Firefox:

  1. More and more sites seem to be dropping support for Brave. That seems very odd because Brave is based on chromium and Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers out there. This means that site developers are proactively detecting Brave and blocking its use. The reason is probably because Brave is one of the most effective browsers for blocking user tracking.
  2. Brave is based on Chromium which Google controls. Google is using its Chromium code to treat users like children, monopolize browser behavior, and break the web.

I still plan to use Brave Search since it’s the most private search engine and doesn’t censor its results.

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As much as I love open source projects, I will no longer be using Known as my blog engine. Known was a fantastic tool for learning about the IndieWeb, but it was very buggy (especially the plugins). Today I tried to upgrade to the latest version and thanks to some undocumented dependencies my entire site was trashed. How annoying.

That’s it, I’m done. I’ve moved to WordPress and I’m in the process of rebuilding everything.

Stay tuned.

Addendum

Costco is also like some open source projects: only useful if your time has no value. I despise Costco – it’s like being at Disneyworld except there are no rides

Kelowna, BC