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Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon, Iceland
Jökulsárlón, Iceland — photo by Ira Goldstein,CC BY-SA 3.0
Skógafoss waterfall, Iceland
Skógafoss, Iceland — photo by Martin Falbisoner,CC BY-SA 4.0

Updating My Blog With Claude

AI

A few years back I set up this Middleman-powered blog and then… promptly let it collect dust. Life gets busy. Motivation comes and goes. The friction of spinning up a dev environment, remembering the Slim templating syntax, and figuring out what to write is enough to keep most updates from ever happening.

So I tried something different: I asked Claude to do it for me.

Kirkjufell mountain, Iceland
Kirkjufell, Iceland — photo by Jakub Hałun,CC BY 4.0

You can't change your MAC address on new Macs

Troubleshooting

Yay! This was fixed in the release of macOS Catalina.

Replace the MAC address in the following command to whatever you want and it should work.

$ sudo ifconfig en0 ether 00:80:48:ba:d1:30

For almost a year the ability to change the MAC address on MacBooks has been broken or disabled.

Reynisfjara black sand beach and Reynisdrangar sea stacks, Iceland
Reynisfjara, Iceland — photo by Martin Falbisoner,CC BY-SA 4.0

Chrome Flash Audio Issues on OSX

Troubleshooting

For the last 3-5 months I have been having issues hearing audio with Flash on Chrome. So many times I would go to YouTube, see the video and hear no sound. My solution at the time was to “force close” Chrome and reopen. I sent numerous bug reports...

Dyrhólaey peninsula, Iceland
Dyrhólaey, Iceland — photo by Jakub Hałun,CC BY 4.0

pmtools a handy set of Perl module specific command line tools

Development

I recently discovered a very useful set of Perl command line tools. I hope you find these as useful as I have.

pmall
show all installed versions and descs
pman
show a module's man page
pmcat
page through a module file
pmdesc
print out version and whatis description...
Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon, Iceland
Jökulsárlón, Iceland — photo by Ira Goldstein,CC BY-SA 3.0
Skógafoss waterfall, Iceland
Skógafoss, Iceland — photo by Martin Falbisoner,CC BY-SA 4.0

Komodo Open Remote File on Server with Public Key SCP on OSX

Development

By default, Komodo does not work well with public key only SSH sessions.

I was getting this error every time I tried to open a remote file on a specific server:

Remote SSH server does not allow password authentication. Allowed types are: 'publickey...
Kirkjufell mountain, Iceland
Kirkjufell, Iceland — photo by Jakub Hałun,CC BY 4.0

rvm ruby-1.9.3.p0 on OSX 10.6.8 ssl issues

Development

I was getting a segmentation fault after upgrading to ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2.0 and it was driving me crazy.

/Users/cowholio4/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:799: [BUG] Segmentation fault

To fix this I rebuilt ruby with a...