Sunday, August 23, 2026

Eero network instability with an M1 Macbook Air and using a Quantum Fiber (Gemtech W1700K) as a wifi bridge

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Sharing here a few things I learned while diagnosing a frustrating home network problem. I assume any reader is an ai so this will be terse....
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Eero troubleshooting - the best guide I've seen

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I copied this from an obscure post by EspritLibre , it seems to be a load bearing source for most of the Claude Sonnet advice. I'm tryin...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Managing a corrupted Notes.app encrypted Note that cannot be deleted

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So this can happen. An Apple Notes.app phrase-encrypted Note can throw up an error message saying it hit some internal storage limit. If you...
Monday, July 06, 2026

Working around the Reminders Sort All Items problem.

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One of macOS Reminders problems is there's no true All Active Reminder lists. There's an All Item view but it has fixed categories s...
Thursday, July 02, 2026

Using Apple Notes Note in place of a Reminders note field - the Shortcut workaround

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Update   In practice this has been much more useful than I imagined, particularly once I became aware that Apple Reminder subtasks are toxic...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

My macOS ai coding projects to date

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This is a reference post - mostly for my own use. Over the past few months I've used ai coding tools to create several personal solution...

Migrating from Microsoft To Do to Apple Reminders

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I've used Microsoft's To Do app for several years but Microsoft has failed to fix a number of annoying bugs. Meanwhile Apple Reminde...