This post is for the long tail since only a few will find it helpful, but for those it may just be the dramatic productivity booster they were looking for. Imagine a scenario where you have a dedicated machine on you local network and only that machine has a VPN client installed, which allows access […]
Technology
Cable Modem Signal Levels revisited
Fourteen years ago I wrote a blog post about the signal levels that come in and go out of your typical cable modem. Some things have changed some stayed the same. Let’s revisit this topic. The IP address to connect to a cable modem is still the same 192.168.100.1. These days, I’m still using a […]
Frictionless Speed / Zero Intent Skills
Teams had taken four runs down the 1,450 meter (almost 1 mile) long track, made of reinforced concrete, covered in ice. Still, their combined times were separated by less than a blink of an eye. The ice on the track varied, the colder and harder, the faster the sleds would go. A sled’s metal blades […]
Deploying Python AWS Lambda Functions
When it comes to deploying lambda function into AWS, I have been using mostly Java for the implementation language and runtime. However, using Python has some advantages, especially if the code does not require parallel threads. E.g., the deployment package is usually a lot smaller and waking the lambda function, after it hasn’t been used […]
Alicia vs Alexa
Democratizing the creation of delightful audible content Have you ever heard an interview with Alicia Keys? She spent most of her childhood in Hell’s Kitchen, one of New York City’s toughest neighborhoods. Experiencing how much emotion she’s putting into each word and her very deliberate expressive pronunciation means you cannot just casually listen but have to […]