PHP is often — no, almost always — considered the lousiest language by the computer science (CS) pundits. I agree with them on many counts. If you are a CS purist or pundit, you probably have a very low tolerance for PHP as a programming langauge. If you are new…

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…

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. Now ScreenFlow has also upgraded to a native M1 version so my video…