In my nearly two decades of experience working with software engineers, the last thing they want to do is document their work! And even if they do, hardly anyone else can use it later. But I found a solution that might just work! Let’s face it, most average software engineers…

How I survived an old centos box with a failed external USB drive! This article is mostly to remind me how to do this again as it is a bizarre and rare situation. Even though we have migrated to the cloud for over had a decade, some of our legacy…

I never thought I would love reading about snakes! Your take on the subject is so real and true; When I moved to my beautiful mega-house ten years ago in a town called Rocklin, California, I was introduced to a baby rattlesnake in the garden. Fear got the best of…

Lots of rumors and posts about M1 macs having huge wear and tear on the SSDs. Find out how to see for yourself. — Recently, I have seen a lot of posts online about M1 macs having an unreasonable amount of SSD wear and tear for unknown reasons. Across Twitter and the MacRumors forums, users reported that ‌M1‌ Macs are experiencing an extremely high amount of SSD writes over a short span of time…

Big Sur and M1 are not working well for Bluetooth devices just yet. I love my Mac Mini M1. It is a beast when it comes to processing H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) videos using Final Cut Pro. …

Manipulate Audio/Video/Image on Mac M1 Command-Line! — I am a beginning-level YouTuber and an expert-level software engineer with 18+ years of software design, development, and management experience. I have recently launched a few YouTube channels — a first-gen immigrant lifestyle channel, a macOS user group channel, and two more channels on the way. Having to deal with…

I purchased the M1 Mac Mini a week ago and enjoyed the video editing performance along with the super quiet nature of the beast! I upgraded from a 2015 15" Macbook Pro, which struggled to deal with HEVC (H.265) encoded videos that are now more common than ever before. My…

I also saved 50% on Apple Care! —