Author: jdboyd

  • Probably her most serious picture face every. A post shared by Joshua Boyd (@joshua_d_boyd) on Dec 5, 2017 at 10:01am PST

  • Theory: Raspberry Pi is the closest thing to a meaningful new Amiga.

  • Improve recipe heat directions.

    I think that recipes should replace phrases like medium high heat or simmer with temperatures. I interpret medium high heat to mean about 350-370 degrees Fahrenheit (175-190 C). Likewise, I call a simmer about 200 degrees (about 95 C). For measuring pan tempuratures, I use a point and shoot infrared thermometer like this model on…

  • Recipes

    For several years I’ve kept a WordPress instance running in my basement for storing my recipes. I recently uploaded the data to wordpress.com. I may move to a custom domain, but for now it is on a free WordPress sub-domain. Visit it at: https://boydrecipes.wordpress.com/. When it was in the basement, I didn’t add pictures or…

  • postgres dump query to file

    \copy (select fields from table where something=otherthing) to ‘/tmp/test.csv’ with HEADER CSV;

  • A photo posted by Joshua Boyd (@joshua_d_boyd) on Jan 24, 2017 at 4:27am PST

  • A photo posted by Joshua Boyd (@joshua_d_boyd) on Jan 24, 2017 at 8:47pm PST

  • Swift 3 on Ubuntu 16.10

    On swift.org’s downloads page Swift 3 comes with builds for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04, but not 16.10. It is a reasonable guess that the 16.04 build will still work on 16.10, but once downloaded and extracted, it complained about missing libicuuc.so.55. 16.10 only offers the ICU version 57. There was a build of icu…

  • Windows 10’s Anniversary Update just force installed itself in the middle of typing a git commit message in the middle of the work day. An hour later, it finished. Of course, it removed my VMs (but did leave the Docker for Windows VM alone).