2021 April

2021-04-28

Geeking

  • Installed Windows 10 on inlaws’ machine to replace their ‘slightly’ outdated Windows Vista.
  • Setting up my personal blog as gohugo site
    • Playing with lftp scripts to mirror generated files via ftp (that’s slow). Based on this post .
    • Checking if I should move my blogs to Netlify
  • Check if you have been affected by Facebook breach, where massive database has been released containing the mobile phone numbers (and associated Facebook personal data) of 533 million users across the world. - https://facebookbreach.com/
  • Planning to deduplicate the files for a family member using Nirsoft SearchMyFiles or CCleaner Free
  • After a reboot my Windows 10 shows wrong time, attempting to fix that by setting registry key RealTimeIsUniversal as per advice in comment 6 here
  • List My Apps - Android app to list all applications on your Android phone or tablet

Geeking at work

  • I have learned that borwser clipboard API is not accessible if your javascript (or parent page/iframe) is loaded via http (not https)
  • built (but not yet shared) a tool to help another team write data fixes

Aidas’s Achievements

  • Aidas figured out how to pedal bicycle

Cooking

Don’t do multi-level marketing

  • Newshub - A Kiwi woman who was a seller for a major multi-level marketing company says it was ’toxic’, ‘cult like’ and left her feeling worthless.

Podcasts

Food

  • Nolita - New Zealand’s first plant-based pizzeria and pastaria has found its home on upper Cuba Street. Co-owner of Nolita Lydia Suggate decided to open Nolita to fill the plant-based sized gap in the Wellington pizza scene.

Reading

The Ministry for the Future]

History

Photos

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