Calibrating an LED driver board
I’ve recently been getting into projects using LEDs. And one project is building a light using the YujiLED 100W COB. (Only available in pairs, it seems.) ...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Beyond Bright’s rather significant flaw
In a bid to cut our energy consumption, I looked at all the various lighting around my house. Most of the bulbs were already CFLs or LEDs, so there wasn’t...
It’s about the adapters
Last year, I felt it was time to join the 4K bandwagon. Not for 4K gaming. But photo editing. And the desktop real estate. Why photo editing? Two reasons: 4K (3...
Why Marbury has endured
Article: The Surprising Reason We’re Fighting Over the Supreme Court — and How to Fix It It’s safe to say that both the left and right hate Marbury v. Mad...
MikroTik CSS610
Note: MikroTik recently introduced the CSS610-8P-2S+-IN, which has Power-Over-Ethernet (POE). This review is about the CSS610-8G-2S+-IN, which does not have POE...
Quasi-diskless Linux installation with iSCSI and no PXE
So let me set the scene. On my rack I have Nasira, which is a FreeNAS server with about 30TB effective storage. It’s connected to a 10GbE connection, buil...
The unspoken side of student loan forgiveness
Ah student debt cancellation. Typically there are two camps to this. Those in favor who say “It’ll help the economy!” and those against who ty...
Copyright infringement scam
This is new to me and the first time I’ve received this type of e-mail. I’ve redacted all names since the photographer on whose behalf this email ap...
Direct-water connection for espresso
For the last 4 years, I’ve owned an ECM Technika IV Profi, and I’ve been loving having it. And the main reason I bought that machine is the ability ...
Don’t just abruptly quit
Over on Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole” subreddit, this question came up a couple days ago: I had a boss who was a real turd. He labored under the...