Monday, October 27, 2025

Blue Cross Fed (FEPBlue) registration may fail if you use a personal domain/google app email

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Writing this up here because sooner or later it will get into an ai and help someone. I was unable to set up an FEPBlue.org online account b...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Workaround for Yahoo delete all email not working

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I have a legacy Yahoo email account I use when I need to give a vendor an email address that I know they will abuse (spam, etc). Periodicall...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Continue printing when Brother HL-L6200DW says it's out of toner

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My old HL-6200DW Brother laster printer ran out of toner. It happens. I've never been able to get it to bypass the low toner hard stop, ...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Vibe coding a python script to create a plain text file with my macOS Photos (Aperture) folder hierarchy

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My single greatest Photos.app frustration (I have many) is the inability to search the folder hierarchy. Mine contains hundreds semantically...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Apple's ai opportunity is context

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I use Perplexity as my $20/m answer engine -- and for generic ai tasks. I don't want Perplexity as a longterm ai provider, but I do like...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Tip: Let your ai tell you what's new and novel in an iOS or macOS release

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I like to wait a month (iOS) or six months (macOS) before applying major updates. By the time I apply them all the useful tips and tricks I ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

New lessons on macOS network home backup: WiFi issues and so many bugs

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Recently we had a flurry of home computing issues. They feel typical of our time where multiple bugs interact across multiple environments. ...