Parting Ways with OWC
Sadly, after years as a customer, Other World Computing has decided they no longer want my business.
joe codes
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MacBook External DVD Player
My trusty mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Catalina got an upgrade by replacing the integrated SuperDrive with an OWC Data Doubler and SSD, moving the SuperDrive to an OWC SuperSlim external enclosure. Everything went great except they don t tell you make it clear that the DVD Player app will not play DVDs from an external SuperDrive. [ ]
Progressive Enhancement
I learned about progressive enhancement as a way to take a simple html site and add styles and scripting to enhance its appearance and functionality, as needed, without interfering with the basic purpose of the site. This keeps it simple, fast, and compatible. If bandwidth and browser supports a feature, it will display it, but [ ]
JavaScript Foreach No Break
I was surprised to learn that foreach in JavaScript does not have a traditional break. The loop will run to completion.
Keychain Password Search
Recent security breaches at online companies large and small has been making the news and becoming disturbingly routine. Now we re starting to get spam that shows a real password from these old security breaches. It would be handy to know all of the places where I ve used this old password so I can update it. [ ]
Combination Sum Fun
Who knew that combination sums across all permutation lengths of an array would be so difficult? It was a challenge but the final product looks good and takes a lot of resources. Limiting the max length for basic memory limits. Would only do something like this for occasional reporting.
Chrome Forms Slow
Working on a new project that can have hundreds of forms on a page. The browser was spending way too much time in Parse HTML. Wasted a bunch of time before learning this is a long-standing bug in Chrome when there are many forms or inputs. Other browsers are fine.
Smarty preg_match
This was not obvious to me nor apparently anyone else trying to use preg_match in Smarty so I thought I d share the solution. Given $href= home.php?cat=1 and trying to get 1 out of it: if '/cat=(\d+)/' preg_match:$href:$match $href = 'My-Page-`$match.1`.html' /if preg_match returns the number of times it matched so we can use it directly as our [ ]
iPhone Plus Experiment
When the iPhone 6 Plus introduced the massive new screen option four years ago, it came with compelling Plus-only landscape features that were heavily promoted. This seemed like a great new option that should only get better as its features would surely be enhanced over time. With the iPhone XS Max debut, the experiment is [ ]
Time Machine Speed-Up Tip
If you re like me, Time Machine tends to run slowly most of the time, or maybe you are trying to do a large initial Time Machine backup and want to squeeze some more performance out of it. A simple tip: Quit the Finder. I have watched Time Machine just sit there seemingly doing nothing then [ ]