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Skylar MacDonald
Reluctant technologist. CAD & Technical Lead/nerd at London Ambulance Service. Tech stuff, NHS/999 stuff, occasional Excel witchcraft. Views, regrettably, my own.
Latest posts
Buying out my music library: how’s that going?
There has been something of an escalation in the MacDonald household.
Getting Rails tasks in Nova to work with chruby
TL;DR: Set up chruby in your .zshenv file instead of .zshrc.
UniFi Talk call parking without UniFi Touch phones
Further to my mission to overengineer my landline, I’ve been playing around with the features it comes with, including the ability to park calls in a ‘parking lot’1 to pick up on another phone. I can only apologise for the American English. ↩
Using UniFi Talk with Andrews & Arnold VoIP
TL;DR: Set it to PCMA instead of PCMU.
Bridging a Bluesky account into Threads
I don’t think it’s a secret that I like decentralised/federated social media, but also that I can’t be bothered with being on more than one network, and so I’m a massive fan of Bridgy Fed — a tool that allows you to effectively ‘bridge’ an account from the fediverse to Bluesky or vice versa. The two networks don’t talk to each other, but this tool allows you to effectively bridge that gap.1 I will…
Buying out my music library
So here’s the idea:
Cloudflare Pages as an asset host for a Rails app
Today I learned: you can ‘build’ a Rails app in Cloudflare Pages to use it as an asset host.
GitHub won’t let me turn off 2FA
OK, OK, look, I don’t want to turn off 2FA on GitHub. Obviously. But on the page in my account settings where I might do such a thing, I now see this warning:
How to Save a Life: my EMF talk is online
As I blogged about in June, I went to Electromagnetic Field this year, and did a fun little talk about my day job.