Author: Bram Esposito

  • bike repair day

    A few days ago, my daughter came home with a headlight broken off. Even a robust, quality headlight cannot withstand the violence of high schoolers 😆.

    Axa bike headlight, broken off at the bottom

    Safety first, so I made sure the bike trip to the Christmas party yesterday was done with fully functioning bike lights. Also a good time to replace the rear wheel quick-release, as the Follow-me Tandem one has a tendency to come loose.

  • Switch to Pride Versioning!

    @Niki Tonsky: I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

  • From Hamachi in 2004 to Tailscale 20 years later

    Back in 2004, Alex Pankratov launched Hamachi, a new and fresh approach to VPN. It was so easy to use, compared to classic VPN. I really enjoyed using it, trying to maintain access to different systems at home, work, parents, …

    Hamachi, by Alex Pankratov

    After moving to a single, portable, computer I did no longer have the need for a solution like Hamachi. And LogMeIn’s acquisition of the company made it feel more corporate, less indie. I lost track of it.

    Today, I’m in a similar spot for a project, and slowly these memories came back. Instead of Hamachi, I now use Tailscale, who seem to have a good (free) offering for personal and small usage.

    PS: funny how small this world is, cause only yesterday I was looking at nullboard, another project by Alex Pankratov, that was on the frontpage of the orange website. I had no idea this was by the same developer!

  • new features I want to add to this blog

    While I’m slowly setting up this blog, I’m keeping track of the features that I want to add to it.

    Check the list
  • iMovie still has no Dark Mode

    A system-wide implementation of Dark Mode was first introduced in 2018 as part of macOS Mojave (10.14)

    https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Mode

    6 years later, iMovie still has an onboarding wizard that shines brighter than the sun.

  • Diamond tools

    Diamond tools illustration

  • Repair of a Bosch GST 150 CE jigsaw

    Repair of a Bosch GST 150 CE jigsaw

    Recently, the lifting rod of my Bosch GST 150 CE jigsaw broke, it literally snapped off.

    Today I replaced the part (866 in the picture). Here are some pictures of my work in progress:

  • Avoid sudo if you can

    I ran npm update on a project today, which returned this error:

    npm error code EACCES
    npm error syscall open
    npm error path /Users/-username-/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/ab/83/-long-hash-
    npm error errno EACCES
    npm error
    npm error Your cache folder contains root-owned files, due to a bug in
    npm error previous versions of npm which has since been addressed.
    npm error
    npm error To permanently fix this problem, please run:
    npm error   sudo chown -R 501:20 "/Users/-username-/.npm"
    npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/-username-/.npm/_logs/2024-12-11T10_37_38_225Z-debug-0.log

    I avoid running sudo commands, especially when it’s node or npm suggesting this.

    My solution: 

    rm  -r /Users/-username-/.npm

    And running npm update again.

    Always think twice before running a root command, especially when it’s coming from an online tool.