Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “nerdy”
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Controlling Roon from your Linux desktop's media keys
I have been experimenting recently with Roon. It is a very good system for playing music, both from your own collection and from Tidal, Qobuz etc.. It also focuses on high quality playback, as if my ears can tell the difference :P One of the fun things that it does is split out the display, player and music source (core), so that you can have multi-zone houses with music streaming everywhere.
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VPN for remote development (and edge compute)
So in an earlier post I mentioned outlined how I use a central dev machine with remote VSCode to keep one checkout of my code and develop on it, no matter what device I’m using, while maintaining a good developer experience (low latency). There’s a couple of issues that I needed to overcome while developing this approach.
When developing it is common to fire up a development server that you can hit with a browser to see how the final product will behave.
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iPad as a coder's machine?
I’ve been playing with using an iPad Pro as my daily driver machine recently. This is hardly new. There’s heaps of people out there doing this. I’m a coder however, so getting access to a decent development machine is important. I thought I’d collect some of the tools that I’ve been using to use the machine as effectively as possible. The iPad pro is so close to being a perfect machine.