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  • # articleApr 6, 2020· 7 min

    MailMate

    It took me a few days longer than I had hoped to get started, but here's the first post in a new Favorite Things category celebrating #IndieSupportWeeks. First up, is the incomparable MailMate by Benny Kjær Nielsen. It's "the email client for…

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  • # articleApr 1, 2020· 2 min

    #IndieSupportWeeks

    <p>With all that's going on in the world, it may not surprise folks to learn that small developers are starting to feel the economic crunch along with everyone else. I hope you'll stick around and read along as I go into excruciating detail about my favorite software and services that I can't live without.</p>

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  • # articleMar 31, 2020· 5 min

    So, uh, I think Catalina 10.15.4 Broke SSH?

    <p>I was completely at my wit's end and feeling like I had lost my mind until about a half hour ago. And I don't know what difference connecting via a hostname versus an IP address would make when specifically using a non-standard port above a certain threshold. I'm not even going to go into it. I don't want to end up on Hacker News again bitching about Catalina. I just hope I've stuffed this post with enough keywords so that anyone else searching on Google might come across the answer.</p>

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  • # articleMar 25, 2020· 3 min

    A Quick Shell Script to Keep a LAN File Server Mounted All the Time

    <p>Now that we're all stuck at home practicing social distancing, my children's mood depends on their favorite TV shows and movies always being available during their iPad free time. And my sanity depends on not hearing the awful clicking noise of the external drive our video library is stored on while I'm working at my desk. Moving it to a networked file server running off a Raspberry Pi was simple enough and solved the problem. But after trying a few 3rd party apps to keep the network share always mounted, here's the simple shell script I wrote instead.</p>

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