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For a work project, I have a personal laptop that I use for connecting to my workplace (which may soon be replaced with a work-provided laptop), remotely, and a client’s laptop, that I use for connecting to theirs. I also have two portable 1080p 15.6″ monitors. Both laptops have 1 HDMI cable, and 1 USB-C […]
24.1.2025 01:42KVM UpdateI signed up this week for AllOfUs, which is a (so far) 5 year project headed up by the NIH to try to gather a truly representative research population for the US. For decades, the rest of us have had to put up with the results of medical studies that rely on “normative” study populations […]
2.12.2023 22:59The NIH All of Us Research ProgramI recently asked folks who follow me on Facebook (yes, I’m an old – I know lots of people and participate in lots of social groups that are only on Facebook and yes it’s a problem) and Mastodon what “intersectional” and “intersectionality” mean to them. Of the respondents, most were familiar with only the popular […]
29.9.2023 17:44Intersectionality – You’re probably using it wrongAs many of you know, I am Chinese and white. My Dad passed in 2017, but before he did, he taught me a significant portion of his cooking skills (passed down through family) and I am now possessed of a combination of ancestral good sense as well as my own book learning about how to […]
30.5.2023 18:56A stir fry in the lifeThis post is through the lens of leaving a relationship that was ending particularly badly in 2012 and only coming back once for a very short visit, a few days, in the intervening time. It’s also for an adventurous foodie friend of mine so there’ll be some content meant loosely for him. But I wanted […]
14.4.2023 00:32Visiting BaltimoreOn Saturday during our weekly Cocktail Zoom Hour, I got to talking with Mom about various artists from my youth that I thought she might enjoy or at least find interesting? It was along the frequency of handsome, intelligent singers/artists who had interesting things to say or show that strongly influenced me and that I […]
9.11.2022 20:36Recommendations of Musical Things and Performers from my YouthI’ve been joining and rejoining bits of my Internet footprint to the Fediverse. I think a couple of years ago I started a mastodon account and dropped off because my corner of it was dead and I didn’t really understand how self-serve it was. More recently, after starting to record myself streaming video games (in […]
7.11.2022 23:01Debugging and fixing the conflict I had between Let’s Encrypt certificates and the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress (for joining the Fediverse!)Another in probably a short and nearly finished series of posts wherein I tried to keep up with the flood of COVID info I was encountering on Twitter. I simply don’t have the time to keep up with what’s now a flood of info, given that our great leaders have apparently thrown up their hands […]
26.10.2022 23:29More COVID ResourcesAn update to the last post, I collected a lot of links and tweets, which I’ll attempt to organize here. FWIW, I am not a doctor. My background is that my father was a biochemist, I have a B.S. in chemistry, some grad work in physical chemistry, experimental design, philosophy of science, statistics, data analytics, […]
7.10.2022 22:22More COVID and Long COVID tweets and links[…] Part 1 […]
22.5.2022 15:10Comment on A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Part 1 by A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Part 3 – Drilling into DNS – Malc...I want to look into how we do DNS these days. There are a couple of choices – one of the reasons there are choices is that DNS kind of sucks. But it also drives the Internet. I am old enough that I remember, having just missed the era of programming mainframes with punch cards, […]
22.5.2022 15:10A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Part 3 – Drilling into DNS[…] Part 1 […]
8.5.2022 16:52Comment on A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Part 1 by A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Part 2 – Malcolm's Geek Blog[…] Part 2 […]
8.5.2022 04:57Comment on A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Part 2 – Design, Planning, and Notes by A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Par...Having decided on a goal, it’s now time to rough out the approach. Basically, what do I need to do to make this happen? Decide on regular DNS or Dynamic DNS to provide an external DNS hostname so other peers can find my instance. regular DNS Domain: perivid.xyz Registered, registrar chosen, domain chosen. DNS A […]
8.5.2022 04:56A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Part 2 – Design, Planning, and NotesSort of growing out of my impulse to record leukemia patient knowledge for posterity, I started playing PC games and streaming them. My original goal there was just to get used to recording my own video, used to hearing and listening critically to my own voice, figuring out what to talk about when playing games […]
8.5.2022 00:29A grand project – Streaming and Video Hosting – Part 1One of my extended adult chosen family has contracted COVID. He’s fit, healthy, but a Gen X old (approximately) like the rest of us. Perhaps too fit, because he hates hearing that as far as we know, Some of the best ways to avoid Long COVID are to take a 6 week break from any […]
5.5.2022 01:00An attempted compendium or at least a start of a resource guide on Long COVID[…] statement (or, how did I get into this mess?): So previously, I wrote up how I was displaying temperature from a local PurpleAir sensor into a widget on the […]
22.10.2020 05:55Comment on Writing/Customizing/Automating a Custom Widget in Apple’s iOS 14 by More on that custom widget – more about data analytics and researching ...Let’s talk about lay research, one of the cornerstones of science, and reproducibility, another, and doing one’s research and homework before putting something out in the world when developing even trivial things like iOS Shortcuts-driven Widgets. Problem/Position statement (or, how did I get into this mess?): So previously, I wrote up how I was displaying […]
22.10.2020 05:55More on that custom widget – more about data analytics and researching stuff(NOTE: These are the life and times of a geek – we do this kind of thing for ourselves or our loved ones. It’s part of what I do to make a living, sometimes. Or just to impress neighbors or even help them sometimes. But that’s why this is in the Geek-as-a-Trade series.) So I […]
19.10.2020 04:12Writing/Customizing/Automating a Custom Widget in Apple’s iOS 14From time to time as I’m writing something for another use (I spend an inordinate amount of time updating house planning and house maintenance documents, moreso now that I’ve got a significant investment in “smart” home technologies in the house), I figure “Hey, maybe this’ll be useful for someone else to see!”, so I copy/paste […]
9.7.2020 17:46“Advanced” Home Automations with HomeKit, Eve’s HomeKit app, and HomebridgeIMPORTANT NOTE: Though I am talking about fitness, and my goal is to be more fit, stronger, more flexible, and better conditioned, and more capable, I remain fat, and I am likely to continue to be fat. Not only that but I’m a fat acceptance activist. So don’t be using this blog post to shame […]
9.2.2020 02:18RPE System for FitnessI am working on a project, both to develop a little widget – a calculator to support my weightlifting exercise – and to do it and document it a RIGHT WAY, so that I might later turn that work into a book or a vlog series or whatever. Anyhow, while documenting the setup (in my […]
19.10.2019 16:10Unit Tests and Test Driven Development (TDD)While I was growing up, I only really had access to radio and to my parents’ LP collection (yeah, I know, old). So my primary go-tos were, embarrassingly (or, SUPER COOL! depending on who I’m talking to): Robert Preston’s Chicken Fat Youth Fitness workout song The Story of Star Wars Album Kate Bush’s The Kick […]
16.1.2019 17:52The KLFThis is another promotional post about the anthology about recipes and cooking called Feeding the Muse, edited by Leona Wisoker. I’ll get the promotional stuff out of the way under the fold (the 2nd chapter), then go on to the writing about this section of my chapter. I contributed the last chapter to an anthology […]
6.8.2018 23:05Notes and remarks on my Wok Hei Lettuce with Chopped Salted ChilesAn old colleague just contacted me today about recommendations for Asian restaurants in the SF East Bay. I figured some of you might be interested in my response. Funny you should mention “authentic” as all the foodies around California are constantly debating what’s “authentic” but for Chinese, I can at least let you know places […]
3.8.2018 23:28Short reccs for Asian restaurants in the East BayThis post is both promotional and musing, so to get the promotional stuff out of the way, read more, and I’ll try to stuff it all into the first paragraph. I contributed rather a lot of words to an anthology of writers writing about cooking. I think my entry’s one of the longest, it’s at […]
3.8.2018 20:34On contributing to an anthology about cookingGood morning! This is the (delayed) fourth diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel Valley with some friends. You can find the map here, which has some photos and may also have comments as the trip goes on, tied to each location we visit, and organized according to date. […]
6.7.2018 00:152018 SGV Trip, Day 4 (Monday)[…] I said in my first post about this trip, there is a need in eating Sichaunese food to manage the “ma”, the Sichuan […]
5.7.2018 02:57Comment on 2018 SGV Trip, Day 1 (Friday) by 2018 SGV Trip, Day 3 (Sunday) – Malcolm's Geek BlogGood afternoon! This is the (delayed) third diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel Valley with some friends. You can find the map here, which has some photos and may also have comments as the trip goes on, tied to each location we visit, and organized according to date. […]
5.7.2018 02:562018 SGV Trip, Day 3 (Sunday)Good afternoon! This is the (delayed) second diary entry for a trip we just finished taking through the San Gabriel Valley with some friends. You can find the map here, which has some photos and may also have comments as the trip goes on, tied to each location we visit, and organized according to date. […]
4.7.2018 20:382018 SGV Trip, Day 2 (Saturday)In reply to <a href="https://geekblog.malcolmgin.com/2018/05/05/on-keeping-passwords-and-accounts/#comment-13">Kevin Dickover</a>. Looking at this comment again, my only concern here is that if you are remembering your passwords, you may be using too few passwords and may be reusing passwords. Depends on the number of sites you sign up for and use. I have 1033 different passwords in my LastPass vault. But I do sign up for services relatively more frequently than most people I know. I think I personally know/remember perhaps 6 or 7 passwords and have the vault remember the rest. I do like that you may use xkcdpass (and that it's pipable). I also like that you use non-English words. Anything that makes the randomly generated space larger is good!
30.6.2018 13:16Comment on On keeping passwords and accounts by Malcolm GinGood post and a subject near and dear to my heart! I like the xkcd correct horse battery staple style of passwords as referenced here https://xkcd.com/936/ There is a lovely python library that allows you to generate those passwords easily called xkcdpass that is pipable. In general longer is always better. I've been known to pull in words from generally unknown non-English languages as well. Think Klingon, Welsh, Potter spells, Tolkien words and other generally bizarre languages to keep the passwords memorable and hard to dictionary.
8.5.2018 20:15Comment on On keeping passwords and accounts by Kevin DickoverIn reply to <a href="https://geekblog.malcolmgin.com/2018/03/06/adventures-in-home-automation/#comment-11">Meredith</a>. Have you tried setting up Homebridge to tie Nest and Homekit together?
10.3.2018 16:16Comment on Adventures in Home Automation by Malcolm GinI have a couple of Wemo outlets at home, and a Hue Go at work. I love them and I want a Nest and ALL THE THINGS.
6.3.2018 01:13Comment on Adventures in Home Automation by MeredithThis is absolutely beautiful...and it rings true to my experience in every way...i am 81, so i remember the 50’s and the decades thereafter and i remember what an awful shock it was when i finally realized The Talk malcolm talks about was going on, often in the crudest, most hateful terms.....
1.12.2017 00:22Comment on Toxic Masculinity, the Real Scoop on What it’s Like to be a Man in it, and Related Thoughts by Lyn pon (malcolm’s Mom)Lovely description of a perfect day....
28.11.2017 17:59Comment on 2017 Thanks Taking by Lyn pon (malcolm’s Mom)In reply to <a href="https://geekblog.malcolmgin.com/2016/12/16/about-pupusas/#comment-6">Eric</a>. Also at one point, Trillian thought this about him: "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn’t be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.” Which makes me think his psychologist, if one were intrepid enough to take him as patient, might have similar difficulties.
16.12.2016 21:56Comment on About Pupusas by Malcolm GinIn reply to <a href="https://geekblog.malcolmgin.com/2016/12/16/about-pupusas/#comment-6">Eric</a>. Wow Eric, what's it been? 6 years? More like 9? How ya been?
16.12.2016 21:52Comment on About Pupusas by Malcolm Ginquestion: what would zaphod beeblebrox's psychologist say about zaphod beeblebrox?
16.12.2016 21:13Comment on About Pupusas by Eric