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Continue reading →: net: Google Shared Drive Missing Manual v0.9 2025-03-31Well, we finally moved from using shared folders to Shared Drives adding a whole new level of permissions confusion. We have a few goals: This turned out to be quite a bit harder than you think. So here’s the missing conceptual manual of what is going on. Shared Drives Need…
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Continue reading →: read: From the CDL Reading Group with Ken LiuWow that group is awesome, but some great short stories You should read them all!
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Continue reading →: vm: Ubuntu on Mac with UTM or LimaWell, I try not to use Docker too much, but for compatibility testing, it is sure nice to have a QEMU like thing that I can bring up and down. UTM is a nice tool for this that uses the hypervisor stack for graphical applications. Quick notes, when you download…
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Continue reading →: fcp: The Mystery of Final Cut Pro CaptionsWell, they finally added automatic caption creation, but of course they are biased towards the apple itt format so nothing much happens. So here is a guide to making captions work:
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Continue reading →: obs: HDR Output not looking greatOK, I’ve been doing a lot of HDR work and it’s been mysterious how to set OBS to do this properly. I tried to do one and the colors were way off, but looking at Reddit, you get to the OBS notes and it says that is it. using the…
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Continue reading →: net: Google Drive Sharing dual layerOK, so we have Google Drive for sharing things and man has it gotten complicated. The problem is that sharing is more restricted now and the default is that you cannot share things with non-workspace members. It is confusing because when you try to share with someone, you set it…
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Continue reading →: dev: ubuntu 22.04 google chrome and asdf strangenessWell, asdf, direnv and the plug asdf-direnv are wonderful when they work, but very mysterious when they don’t. As of today, you need to use my build of asdf-direnv and you also have to do some work to setup it up if you are on a out of date Linux…
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Continue reading →: dev: The pain of moving from wsn to ws fixing ComfyUI Desktop, asdfSam showed me years ago a great way to organize your local machine. Basically you create workspace directory ws and then you put git, data, cache and everything else you need to build for that project. For a long time ws was my home GitHub project I keep at richtong…
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Continue reading →: mac: No space because of Time Machine hidden in Restricted FilesI had totally forgotten that I had setup one of my machines with Time Machine. Most of the time it has no impact, but when you are trying to download 500GB of LLM models it makes a difference. Time Machine is supposed to be smart about local snapshots, but when…
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Continue reading →: git: tag overwrites, recursing submodules and fetching themWell this is really advanced stuff, but with large mono repos you really want things to stay in sync, so here are some tricks:
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