Martin Uncut: Recent Episodes
Martin Haagen
A micro podcast about technology such as podcasting, vlogging (youtube), content and technology for the web and of course the life as a business owner. It is a diary formed description based on Martins life talking about different experience made in different projects.
Topics of the day
- Broken network
- Update to the DuckDuckGo story
Broken network
As I mentioned in both episode 135 and 136, I have made some changes to my network setup. I now have a nice private network between different sites setup using VPN. Multiple NAS:es has been setup and data is flowing freely in this private network. This is great.
During the setup of the network I realised that me and Michael by pure chance was using the same IP-network segments - and no it was not the 192.168.1.0/24 network that seems to be the one that everyone is using. To not break the routing - since a network cannot exist in two places at the same time - one of us had to change. And since I am a nice guy…
I looked through my configuration and there was actually just a few things that I really needed to change. It was the interface IP of the firewall and the IP-ranges that the local DHCP-server was serving. So as I sometimes say, no one remembers a coward, and changed the IPs. The network went down and didn’t go up again.
Reboot if the router. Reboot of the router. And I for saw a re-setup of the router and all the VPNs and everything. But by pure chance I tried to use my RoadWarrior VPN - and I was so surprised when that still worked. I was still able to connect to the router through that. I was also able to connect to the office on the other side of one of the VPN tunnels. But the local network was down.
I probably spent an hour or two troubleshooting. The setup just looked fine. There was nothing wrong with it. I checked DHCP-server, firewall rules, NAT . Yeah everything you could thing off. But no luck.
After a while I did the standard setup guide of the router. It makes the basic config of the router. And then the local network went up. For 2 minutes. Then it was down again. Did the setup guide again. Network worked for 10 minutes and went down. That was strange. But it made me think about the pfBlockerNG that I setup a few weeks ago to block TikTok traffic. That is the only thing I could think about that was doing anything on a time-base in the router. To be sure I disabled it and deinstalled it - and after that no problem with the network going down.
I still can’t explain what was causing it but when the rules engine ran to update the sites to block - it also blocked my internal network. Since this was an internal blocklist it was not visible to in the UI and hard to find. This is a thing that could take a long time to find and I am pretty happy that I did. I still haven’t reinstalled it and reconfigured the block-lists — that is a project for a calm weekend in the future. But it so brought back memories from the old days when I was working as a network technician setting up big networks.
The good thing is that I now have a new IP network range and we could configure the networks. Learning - next time - let Michael change his IP-range instead….
Update to the DuckDuckGo story
In episode 137 I talked about the new that DuckDuckGo got caught not blocking all 3rd party cookies in their browser but allowed Microsofts cookies. After releasing the episode I got pinged by Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO and founder of DDG. He stated that they do block 3rd party cookies from Microsoft and sent a link to a reddit article - of course linked in the show notes - where he explains in what way the do not do this.
The article states that they do block 3rd-party tacking cookies - e.g. the carrier of the individual id to be placed on the computer - even from Microsoft. They also have the capability to block 3rd-party scripts - e.g. the script that will put the cookie in the first place. They do this for most 3rd-party trackers but not for Microsoft. This means that Microsoft can still track your activity on a site where their tracking script is available - but they will have a much harder time to track you cross sites since their cookie identifying you will not be available. This will likely still give enough information to Microsoft to still identify you though different fingerprinting technologies.
So yes blocking third-party cookies but allow the 3rd party scripts from some providers. Splitting hairs in my opinion.
I am still thinking that DDG are genuinely trying to do a good thing but has gotten some issues since they are a private company that needs to pay their staff. The big failure here is still the lack of transparency - if they were just open and honest about what they do and don't do this would be a non-issue. They allow some scripts - we know about the Microsoft scripts - who else are they allowing and why. Just be open about it - it will be found and leaked any way.
And to iterate - this whole discussion is about the DDG browser not the DDG search. I see no problems with the search.
On Wednesday Bleeping Computer reported that DuckDuckGo allowed trackers from Microsoft but blocked most other 3rd party trackers. That caused a storm in twitter - but what is that all about? But let's break this down.
What is a tracker - it sounds ominous - like a spy bot following every step you take. It is just a cookie, a small text-file, that the browser store on your computer. The content is unique and is used to identify you. As you surf around on the network your browser will submit the cookie when requested to do so and this is how you are tracked.
What is a third-party tracker. Essentially it means that a website includes a script from a 3rd party - this script provides functionality and sometimes these places a tracking cookie. If this script is used by multiple sites the script provider can track how people moves around the network. One example can be the google analytics scripts - they will measure traffic for the website but at the same time be able to track user across websites. Facebook can do the same through their like buttons etc.
DuckDuckGo is famous for their privacy friendly search engine. But it was not the search engine that this was about. Using the search engine you are private - you are not being tracked. Not even by the ads nestled into the search result. The ads that are being displayed are only context sensitive ads and doesn’t build a profile on you. Ads provided are proxied through DuckDuckGo making sure that you are not leaking any data. As long as you don’t click on an ad you are private. But clicking an ad will provide some data about you (IP and browser information) to Microsoft. No search query or profile (there is none) will be provided to Microsoft. But the second you leave DuckDuckGo you can be tracked by 3rd party trackers on the sites you go to - depending on the browser and setup you have. This is not the fault of DuckDuckGo - but of the sites you visit.
DuckDuckGo also has a private browser - it can be found in the Apple App Store and Google Play store. It is this application, not search, that is not blocking Microsoft tracker cookies. One of it key features is just to block 3rd party trackers. But since the DuckDuckGo company has some agreements to deliver Ads for Yahoo/Microsoft they are not allowed to hinder any of their tracking assets. That is why their browser doesn’t block the Microsoft owned 3rd party trackers.
So, do you need to be worried about this? If you are not using the DuckDuckGo browser - no, with the information available at this point you should be safe. If you are using the DuckDuckGo browser - yes, then you should be aware that Microsoft can track you. Clear your browser cookies often and diligently. Or switch browser.
I think that DuckDuckGo genuinely tries to do the right thing. If you don’t want to be tracked - use a different browser - such as Firefox with a bar-age of blocking plugins or why not use brave?
Minor issues like the one reported is to be expected even from a company like DDG. It costs money. A lot of money to run and operate a search engine. And they need to make money some how. With agreements you sometimes have to give a way some small things to gain the bigger piece. I think they do what they say - not tracking their users.
The root cause comes down to infrastructure. Internet is fundamentally built like an ever growing network of networks. Where each part is working autonomously. Look at the basic services like DNS, Email and Web. These where all foundational pieces. Image only having one DNS-provider, or a handful of email suppliers or that one web-host? That is hard to image. But when it comes to search we have allowed just that. Search is a fundamental part of internet and if this had been understood in the cradle of internet - we would probably se search be working similar to email or DNS. Be autonomous and distributed.
We shouldn’t allow a handful of companies sit on the power of search. Just as social media such as Mastodon can be made distributed or video such as Peertube - search should be something distributed. We all should be able to setup our own search engine and gather and federate the index. That would be a game changer for internet freedom.
But until we have a federated, secure and privacy friendly search in place, I will continue to use DuckDuckGo.
Let's continue the story from this Monday. Should we!?
It is fantastic to have a NAS. You do not really have to worry about running out of space. And if you are getting close to that point it is fairly easy to just expand it by adding more drives. Storage is really cheap these days. And it will likely only get cheaper with time - that is relatively speaking. More MB per $ spent - or I should probably say more TB per $ spent.
It is however not only "gold and green forests" - that is a very Swedish expression and would translate to the land of milk and honey. Keeping the data safe is a challenge when the size grows. And this is how I have solved it.
My NAS is in my office - this is available through VPN to my home or via a Road Warrior VPN. I can always get access to my files. It is equipped with 4 4TB drives running in a raid configuration meaning a drive can fail and the data will still be fine. But what if I have multiple disk failures at once or if have a fire or a break in. The data needs to be backed up offsite. 4 x 4TB in raid equates to roughly 10TB of usable disk space.
The approach me (and Michael) solved this was to fix an additional Synlogoy NAS (Michael had a 920+, 4 bay over) and buy a bunch of disk. I bought 3 16TB -- running these in raid will give you close to 28TB of usable disk space. We setup the device and put it in a place that me and Michael both have network access to. Then we can backup our NASes to this unit. That means we can have multiple disk failures, burglaries and fires and the data should still be safe. Don't worry the units are not publicly accessible on the net - VPN access is required to get to the data.
With Synology you can do this in many different ways. The way we did this was to use a Synology backup application called "Hyper Backup" - this runs on my NAS in the office. I configure it to connect to the backup NAS by schedule and backup the files from my NAS according to my choices. I also can encrypt the data on the client side before it is sent to the backup NAS. This means that I can be sure that Michael cannot look into what I have on my NAS and he can be sure that I cannot see his - even though we both have full access to the backup NAS. That is really cool.
Setup on our own NASes was really straight forward. It was even more simple on the backup NAS. There a small application called Hyper Backup Vault is installed - and no configuration is needed. Super easy. And that is a thing I value when it comes to setting things up.
The main issue is now that network connections, especially from my office, is a bit slow. Backup is taking a long time - or at least the first one - after that the application should be doing a delta and thus only backing upp mew files and this speeds the whole process up quite a lot. To protect the networks from overload I also limited or shaped the traffic and in this process I used a few cool tools on the NASes. But I will save that for another episode.
What's next with this backup solution? Well it will have to run for a while so that I can get comfortable with that it is running as it should. It is important that there is not service failures or missed out backups. Then in a few weeks I will do a restoration test. That is what most people forget to do - test that their backups are working and that data can be received out from them up on a failure. I will let you know how that goes.
I hope you enjoyed this episode - and if you did - why not recommend it to your best friends!?
Tomorrow, Thursday, is a public holiday, no episode will be released. But I'm back here again on Friday!
Ciao!
What a weekend! I hope yours was great but even if it was it will not be close to mine.
My good friend Michael came to visit and we had a nerd day. A few days before he came over a package from santa arrived but it was not opened until we met at the office. Inside there was a 10 Gbps network card for my NAS and two 250GB nvme:s to be used as read and write cache in the NAS. There was also 3 x 16TB Ironwolf drives - but I will talk more about those another day.
Michael got the assignment to install the new interface and the nvme:s into the NAS since he had done it before on his own NAS. In the package there was also a few cat7 cables and a few gbic/SFTs for my pfsense. Goal was to get a super fast network. But of course there was something that should not be working as well as I had hoped - the gbics where only 1GB and they didn’t want to work in the pfsense - which totally makes sense when you thing about the $35 each or so I paid for them. Appart from that I now “only” have a 2.5GB network all went well. I can definitely see and feel the speed difference just from going from 1GBs to 2.5GB. I can’t wait until I fix it so it uses all the 10 Gbps it’s designed for.
After the NAS upgrade we (or I really should say Michael) fixed the cable mess I had on my desk. On the floor I had a paint bucket where my MacStudio was standing - cables hanging down and generally a messy setup. We disconnected everything - fixed some cable holders and double sticky tape and after a few hours I had a super nice setup. Cables hidden, and in nice order. I can once again actually raise and lower my desk.
Take a look in the show notes and you will se before and after pictures from the desk setup.
We also did some other things like setting up the backup NAS and breaking Martins home network. No one remembers a coward. But more about that another day!
Before
After
Pictures by Michael Dreves (@dreves on Twitter)
During the weekend i setup whats called a RoadWarrior VPN. The name comes from the early 2000 when remote workers, usually travelling, on the road, sales people needed a way to safely connect back to the office and place orders and handle administration. It is essentially a client to server connection. One specific computer gets access to the network behind the firewall compared to a site-to-site VPN where two networks can be connected through a VPN-tunnel.
I created this so that I can connect home and use my NAS even if I'm not at home. This is a quite interesting setup. I connect to my home through the VPN tunnel and then I'm routed through another VPN-tunnel to the office where my NAS is. The reason for this is that my office doesn't have a fixed IP that I control the firewall for.
It was not straightforward to setup. But after a bit of tinkering it started to work just fine. The pfsense VPN-setup-wizard didn't work for me so I had to do it manually. But it is just a handful of steps.
Step one is to setup a new Certification Authority, a CA, if there already is one, you do not have to do this of course.
Step two is to create a server certificate - this is probably where my problem arose with the wizard. The CN (common name) of the cert should correspond to the adress your clients should connect too.
Step three is to create a client certificate - this you can put what ever you want as the CN.
Step four is to create the OpenVPN server. This is pretty straight forward. I choose to route all traffic through the tunnel - this compared to only send through the traffic that should go to the network behind the VPN. The main reason I choose this approach is that it makes my routing a slight easier. And since I am the only user that is using the setup I am not really concerned about the extra traffic usage.
The fifth and last step is to configure te clients. The clients for me is my two laptops (Mac and Surface), and my iPad and my iPhone. I installed the client export plugin into my pfsense that could create ovnp-files for me simplifying the configuration.
On my iPad, iPhone and Surface i used the OpenVPN client. It was a super simple setup. Install the client and import the ovpn file and it just worked. For my Mac I decided to use tunnelblick an OpenSource VPN client that I have used in the past. This was as easy to get working. I got a few complaints that a few of the features I used in my setup will be obsoleted in an upcomming releas (due to changes in OpenSSL).
Today I was working out side of the office and my home and needed to get hold of a few files on the nas. And this setup up worked really well. I uploaded and downloaded roughly 2GB of data (video/screen recordings) - and it worked so well.
I hope you had a nice weekend! I went to a tradeshow showing and talking about Getting Things Done. Sunny and a lot of people. I also configured a RoadWarrior VPN but more about that another day.
Today I will start a theme related to how you can do screen recordings or explainer videos. I do them from time to time and learned what you can do and what you shouldn’t do. Sometimes the easy way and sometime the hard way. And I still do learn a lot…
Today I wanted to talk a bit about a tool called ScreenFlow from Tellestream. It is a paid application ($149) - it is updated often and for every main update a new license needs to be purchased - an upgrade license is cheaper ($49). I have bought a license at least 3 times. ScreenFlow was one of the first video recording applications I used. It is powerful and you can use it from recording, to edit and to export and publishing.
It is nice since it can record your desktop (or parts of it), your camera, your ipad and your audio at once and what to se, when etc. So for example you can start your edit with your camera in full screen. Do an intro presentation, then you can cut in your intro, back to camera, zoom out and show your screen. Easy to change sizes, zoom in - add effects etc.
It takes a bit to learn but it is not particular difficult. I spent a few hours on YouTube watching tutorials and introductions to it and after that it became my goto video editor for years. I still use it from time to time when I do recordings mainly because it is fast to capture multiple sources fast and it will do most of the necessary edits.
The part where it is a bit weak is audio threatment. I usually export the sound - bring it into Audition or Audacity where I level and sound threat it. I can also do noise removal and reverb treatment. I finally will import it back into ScreenFlow.
One thing that I ran into the other day - also sound related. I did an almost 30min recording on friday. Today I had planned to edit it to be released today as well. But there was something strange with the sound. It sounded strange. It started in sync with the video but quickly got out of sync. There was also strange pops and miss sounds in the audio. The audio stopped way before the video.
It took me quite some time to understand what was happening. I recorded the sound with my Zoom H8 as an audio device - it does that in 48khz sample rate. That it the most common audio sample rate for video. But ScreenFlow recorded it as it where 44khz. If it is a bug with screenflow or a setting issue in MacOS I am nut sure. But it ended up with me not being able to use the recording.
Lessons learned. When you do recordings (of any type) - do a test recording first so that you are certain it works as it should
I left my "Good Old" note application Evernote back a year ago. In "Ep 75 - April 20 - All out of Evernote" I talked about my migration from Evernote into DevonThink as an archive of my old notes. Everything new has then been created in Obsidian. I use it for a lot of different notes - but it is not my only note taking application. Let's look at the application and how I use it now when it's been in my workflow for a while.
It is one of the handful of applications I use every day. I may not create new notes every day but I am updating and reading notes every day. The structure I have setup is a three based structure where I link out from a root-page - I call it my INDEX note - yes I am an old web developer! Here I link to other sub-pages - these are project, customer or theme based. And from these I can link out even further.
All pages are not linked but the majority is. I also have a folder structure where I group sets of notes that are related. One example for that is my scripts or this podcast. I also have other big notes grouped like this. I have a limited use of tags - I prefer to use links as the glue to get themes and categories together and I am afraid to end up in a tag-hell where they become unuseable - like they became for me in Evernote.
I create a ton of notes straight in Obsidian but Drafts, another text-editor, is also being used for text capture. From drafts I can use actions to export the text to other tools. I have multiple actions that is importing text into different places in Obsidian as an example, I have an inbox for notes that should be processed and organised, a quotes note and a note with writing ideas. This way I can quickly and easily capture these and feed them into the right place in obsidian for later use and reference.
I also do more long from writing in Bear - there is just something with that app that makes it easy for me to write. The written texts stay in Bear after I publish them elsewhere.
My Obsidian is not filled up with a ton of addons. I use the built in functionality - dataview, better word count, advanced tables and a few more but these three are the main ones. I am after a year still using the same Cybertron theme - I like it except when I need to export text since parts of the styling comes out with the export.
I started of with multiple vaults but…
I have the Obsidian sync service since I am using obsidian on both my iPhone and iPad. On the phone it is mainly to consume or look up thing but on the iPad I often draft out and work on various notes. It is not ideal but it works.
Electron app - it works on all platforms, but it doesn't work well anywhere. There are these small things like OS-integrations, Window management and more that is just a little bit different. Different enough to annoy me a bit.
I think I could do something similar to what I have in Obsidian in Evernote. A clean start is always good and it forced me to create a new and fresh system that i useable. Not just a dump of various things that I never get back to. Durning the year I have searched my old Evernote notes a handful of times - and it was never a successful result. Its mainly crap in there. With a clean start where the creation of things where done more carefully a good system could have been created.
I am not committed for life to obsidian - if there is something that shows up that is equally powerful and work better I would change without hesitation.
One year later would I still recommend anyone else starting to use Obsidian. Yes, every day of the week. It is a fantastically powerful application with great price (free), it is hard to beat that ROI calculation.
In [[Ep 126 - April 12 - Note automation with RocketBook and Devonthink]] I talked about the workflow I setup using my RocketBooks, Keyboard Maestro and DevonThink. I mentioned that I have a Remarkable 2 that I just didn't find a good workflow for. I do not like archiving and keeping my notes on the remarable it self. The goal is to be able to digitize all notes into the same system.
My Rocketbook flow is essentially:
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Write in RocketBook
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Take Photo with app - tag and upload to dropbox
3. Keyboard Mastro macro will tag files with clarifying tag
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I manually process the notes and tag it with the right project or theme tag.
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Another Macro moves the file into DevonThink
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An automation (smart rule) is triggered on the import and will based on the tags move the file to the correct place.
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Clean the RocketBooks...
My problem was that I could export one or a subselection of pages from my Remarkable2 - it was the whole notebook (if I used the dropbox integration). Then I found email-to-dropbox. An experimental feature that gives you a privat email where you can send files and the will be stored to a specific location on the dropbox. There maybe multiple ways of doing this but this was the easiest way for me.
The Remarkable 2 flow now looks like this:
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Write in Remarkable
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Send the page to dropbox
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Keyboard Maestro will pick up the file in dropbox and inject the file into the right place in the Rocketbook flow.
The upside here is
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It is faster to email the note than to use the app and take a photo
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With Remarkable I don't have to clean any pages
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Can use both appraches side-by-side
The next step is to find a scanner app that can scan notes from any notebook (or whiteboard) and inject that into my flow. This is comming together nicely!
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What his hosting?
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Store the files (storage)
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Bandwidth
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RSS-feed
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Self hosted
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On my webhost
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Statistics
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Good for limited sized podcast / starting podcast
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Castos
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Clean and simple
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Wordpress integration
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19 usd
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Podbean
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Messy
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Integration to podcast catalogues
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9 usd
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Stationista
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Clean
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Private
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12 eur
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What should you use?
I do a lot of meetings, trainings and videos from my workplace - I have used a Viltrox panel light for a few years to light me up. But earlier this year I invested in two Key Lights from Elgato. They have a really nice diffuse light, lots of lumens and you can remote control them from the StreamDeck since they are connected to the Wifi. Or that was the plan.
When I got the lights in the beginning of Feb (or later Jan) - I was super happy. I mounted them on my desk and wired everything up. They are super easy to configure. There is a light switch on them - press and hold for 15s in one direction to reset them - then press the other direction to start them. You go to the wireless/wifi menu and the lights will show up - click it and everything should be configured. Or so I thought.
I did as I was supposed to do - but the configuration failed. I tried many times. Also from my phone and iPad. Also from my Windows Surface with Windows 10. Nu luck. Unknown error.
I googled and did research. Turned of 5GHz wifi. Same issue. Reboot. A lot of reboots and resets. Nothing worked. Tired to Switch to a different Wireless AP. Still nothing worked. Changed wifi-driver settings on the Windows Surface to force connection in 2.4GHz. Didn't work.
I contacted both the reseller and Elgato. Took more than a week to get a an answer. Got questions suggestions and things to try. Nothing worked. Went and bought a new Wifi router. Didn't help. Upgraded my router. Didn't help. Bonjour scanned. Ping scanned the network. Nothing.
Shipped the lights back to Elgato in the Netherlands. Got two new lights back. Guess what. Same problem. At this point I've spent maybe 40hrs troubleshooting and test without any progress.
My friend Michael joked - if you just had my wifi routers (that I got and have at home) in the office it would work. I brought a lamp home to test. In 20s it was configuted and worked. Super happy I went online and bought another wifi router - same brand and model as at home.
That router arrived this Monday. I installed it in the office. And guess what - the lights refuse to be configured. At this point I was ready to open the window and throw the damn light out as far as possible. But after the initial rage settled I packed the lights, my router and went home. Connected the router (with the same config as I used in the office) to my home router. In 5 minutes both lamps where configured and worked.
Disconnected everything and went back to the office. Connected everything and now my lamps work. I still don't know why the lamps refuse to configure in the office. I have the same hardware in both places and similar setup. The only thing I can think of is that I have a "real ip" at home but in the office I have a "private ip" only. And potentially the lamps by accident use the same network range or something - but that is a long shot.
I don't really care - and I will not think about lamp configuration for any time soon. Now I will enjoy them and make some good content with them.
I have a storage problem. One DLink NAS with 500GB of space (10+ years old), one Apple Time Capsule 2G (~5 years), 2TB of dropbox space, 2TB external drives, memory cards, iCloud, google drive and a full hard drive on my laptop.
Age is a big risk tied to moving disks - the older they are - the higher the risk of failure becomes.
Bringing my data home - to much risk to have it in the cloud:
- Privacy
- Security (vendor and me)
Bought a Synology Disk Station 1821+ and 4 x 4TB WD Red Pro disks (5 yrs warranty and fast). After some waiting it finally arrived yesterday and during my lunch break I set it up - and that is actually really easy. Put a disk in a casette. Put the casette into the unit. Connect it to the network and power it on. That's it.
Software setup went fast. Needed to install Synologys latest software and create a volume. I decided to use SHR - Synology Hybrid Raid. Essentially a software raid - but gives you the advantage that you can use different hard drives in your raid setup and that can be handy later on. The 1821 has 8 bays but I only use 4 of them to start with. I will add additional drives as needed and in a years time bigger and faster driver will be available and I can easily upgrade.
During the afternoon I started to copy data over to my new nas from my old DLink nas. I mounted (connected) both NASes to my mac and started to copy files. After a while my computer froze - I had to restart to get network connection back. This happened once more during the afternoon (of course in the middle of a call). I don't think this is caused by the Synology - it's is rather my USB3/ethernet card that gets warm or unstable with high load.
It is pretty inefficient to copy or migrate data in this way. Data has to go on the wire from my old nas to my mac and then back out the wire to the Synology. I did some research and found that it is possible to mount the old nas straight on the nas and then copy the files directly. That is way more efficient and I could clearly see the how little load this caused in my network.
During the day to day I will migrate remaining data on the old nas and on my Time Capsule. Move my backup from the time capsule to the Synology. Finally I will copy the data from one of my external drives onto the Synology as well. This should get my video and podcast archive in a great state and have it always online when I need it.
Next steps is to move all files away from dropbox - the plan is to not extend my premium when the subscription ends in June/July.
So far - happy with the unit. But will need to use it for a longer time and especially with a few of my remote use cases as a road warrior and also with and from my mobile devices such as the iPad and the iPhone.
I hope you enjoyed to
I produce a lot of notes
- many of them are handwritten
- this since it is fast and easy to do
- it is slow and my thinking can keep up
There are multiple problems with handwritten notes
- They have a tendency to be in the notebook at home when you are not there
- They easily get out of order and can't be sorted
- They cant be searched when you need to find something specific
I have tried to use digital notes - e.g. writing in an app that I then can store in a repository or a file vault. It works for a few days and then I find my self with a pen in hand again. Inconsistency being a huge problem.
As the tech geek I am - I bought the Remarkable2 - an e-ink device that you can write on. A special surface giving you a paper like feeling. I have a few problems with it.
- The paper feeling is not really paper feeling.
- It is black and white only
- It doesn't integrate well enough with other applications and notes get stuck in the device.
- The battery have a tendency to be out when you need to write.
- Not compatible with my fountainpens and my favourite green ink from pilot.
I have tried a lot of tools and lately I have gotten a workflow with RocketBooks and DevonThing to work well.
RocketBook is the old - half-tech - notebook that you write on with normal pilot friXion pens. You then take a photo of the page and you can upload an OCR:ed pdf to a location of your choice. Then you can wipe the page clean with a moist cloth and reuse the page again.
In my workflow the pdf lands in an inbox in dropbox. Here I can tag them with special topic tags and when a specific "clarified" tags are added - keyboard maestro picks the file up and drops it into DevonThink. Keyboard Maestro is a tool I bought for it's multiple clipboards but has become one of my automation tools of choice. DevonThink is a document database where you can search and organise reference documentation.
Did I say that I have programmed buttons on my Stream Deck to tag and untag files? I did. This means I can quickly process and work through my inbox and move things into DevonThink with quick buttons on my Stream Deck. Once the files hit's DevonThink there are rules created to take files tagged in a specific file and move them to the correct space in the document hierarchy.
I finally found a workflow that brings my handwritten notes into a searchable format in my computer to be portable and come with me where ever I am. And I am super happy with it.
There are however improvements to it. Right now I'm tied down to rocket books. I would like to expand this to be more general. To work with my remarkable and other non RocketBook notebooks. I have been doing some experimentation and I hope I will be able to update you with additions to this workflow in a bit.
I hope you...
April weather over in Sweden - a couple of degrees and windy. Building a porch for my Dad.
Last week I talked about DNS - and I have also mentioned my Email-project even if I haven't done a deep-dive into it yet. Related to both of these are SPF and DKIM.
SPF - stand for Sender Policy Framework - this is a policy you can set that will hinder spammers and scammers from sending email as you.
It is a short text string that you can add to the DNS for your domain. Mainly three sections - SPF-version, allowed ip-ranges and what should happen if not a match.
IP-ranges means which mail-servers that are allowed to send email for the domain. That should only be your email-providers domain. The policy or what should happen can be everything from do nothing - to block. The harder you set this rules the less spam will be sent and impersonated as your domain.
This works by receiving email servers checking the SPF-records before accepting an email - spam filters can also use this data and score unmatched records higher if block is not on.
DKIM - stands for DomainKeys Identified Email - it reminds a lot of SPF but takes it a bit further.
Also with this standard you enter a text message into your DNS. This time it contains a bit more information - but the important part is a public key. This should be a key generated by the sender domains email-server(s). When sending email the email server will sign the message using the private key and receiving email server can then use the key in the DNS to verify that it was sent by an approved sender.
This is a bit more technical to setup than SPF and it also requires that the email server supports DKIM-signing.
DMARC - stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance - this is the glue that ties it all together.
In DMARC - again a DNS-text record, a policy can be defined what should happen when a message is breaking the SPF-policy or is missing or has a false DKIM signature. This can tell the receiving email-servers as an example to quarantine or block the message and also report back to a specific email adress.
I am using SPF and DKIM - I have not yet setup a DMARC policy - it is probably something I should do together with DNSsec to improve my overall domain security. Are you using any of these techniques to stop spam and spoofing from your domain?
The most common reason to not implement SPF or DKIM is not knowing that it exists or the belief it will be hard and risking the correct email to be rejected. Domains with good SPF and DKIM setup has a better chance to pass spam-filters since they are specifically configured to not allow uncontrolled senders. o the internet a service and set it up on your domains today.
I hope you enjoyed todays episode of Martin Uncut.
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Nothing like waiting for new toys - I was hoping my new NAS was arriving today - but no - not even shipped.
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DNS - Domain Name System
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PhoneBook of the internet translates human readable names (domain-names) to IP-adresses that can be used by computers.
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It works like a tree - with root servers - top–domains - domains and hosts or subdomains. To find a name you traverse the tree (or the DNS-server you use traverses the tree).
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Caching is used to make the loads lower.
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DNS is interesting since it old and built by trust - and today that is not very safe.
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We can secure our DNS-data by signing it - hindering DNS-servers providing wrong information or spoofing DNS-names.
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We can encrypt the DNS-querys increasing privacy.
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Which DNS-server are you using - who can se what you access? Google? Your telco?
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I have switched to use Quad9 - that provide a non-logging DNS-server to secure your privacy. You can also use their DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS solution to increase your privacy more.
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Quad9 also have block-list that stops you from getting to malicious sites (optional).
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Quad9.net
- Fun to be back - yesterdays episode (Ep 122) - was recorded at home in the closet, on my iPad, while taking care of my sick 3 year old. That explains the not ideals sound quality.
- Situation before I started this project
- Office (or man cave) - old Linksys WRTG router. NAT.
- Home - telco provided switch (technicolor) - had it for 6-7 years - never changed any passwords. Super slow
- At home I got a set of Netgate WIFI 6 router and satelites (from Dreves)
- Wanted to be able to connect with the network at the office remotely epecially since I'm planning to have statiotionary equipment there lika a computer and a NAS.
- NAT being an issue.
- Looked around and found pfSense (open source fw ).
- Wanted an applience - not a computer around - especially not at home.
- 2100, 3100/4100 and 6100 - choose the expensive one (because the amount of data it can push through)
- Probably over did it a bit - but atleast it will not dissapoint me
- One at home and one at the office
- Currently for firewall and routing and also a OpenVPN connection between the sites where I route traffic.
- Currently main use of that tunnel is to have access to my NAS from both directions. The NAS it not overly used since it is 10+ years old and I don't trust it to live - thus it will be exchanged very soon.
- How is it done?
- Basic setup of the unit
- Configure the interfaces
- On the home unit - configured as an OpenVPN server with a preshared key
- On the office unit - configured as an OpenVPN client
- Home has a fairly static IP (same for at least 3 years now) - easy for the office to connect to that.
- I also setup some watch dogs
- Problem with working when I was in the office - but stopped working as soon as I left. Pluggin out my laptop from LAN1 caused the interface go down and with that the network.
- What will I do
- Changed DNS provider - setup a local resolver that will forward to Quad9. Local routing to push all DNS-traffic to the local resolver.
- Setup a OpenVPN Server for road-warrior setup - this way I should be able to get to the office and the NAS/Computer from whereever I am and also from my iPad.
- Additional security review and modifications - IDS and monitoring?
- What is my thoughts so far
- I have used it for a month now.
- Stable - hardware and software. Tunnel never gone down.
- Insanly over powered for me
- What would I have done differently - probably gone with the 4100 instead.
- The elefant in the room - let's go back to short more frequent episodes
- There has been a lot going on the last few months
- Automations for handwritten notes
- New Mac Studio is ordered
- Firewall and VPN project
- Privacy - changing email provider
- NAS
- And tons of other things
- Hugo - a static site generator
- Static vs Dynamic
- Pro: Speed - faster since no computation, just serving
- Pro: Simplicity - server setup and components - focus on content, security
- Con: Dynamic functionality - contact form, comments etc
- Con: Harder to start
- Want to learn more - I'm currently preparing an online course
- April 14th 7pm GMT+1 - English, no pre-registration needed - but get in touch to get the link.
- Why: Love Hugo, Trying out some concepts related to course creation and setup
Todays episode is, again, not recorded in the studio. I am travelling but brought some stuff...
Todays topics will be:
- The new project building a new podcasting studio
- Moving away from Google
- Important to empty your head
The new project building a new podcasting studio* What I have right now * Why I want to change * What I plan to do + Split the room in two + Create sound absorbation plates + Table to have the Microphones * Requirements
Moving away from Google* Talk about my last de Google Attempt ( 2019-06-11 - https://martinhaagen.se/ungoogleing-the-blog/) + Website + Tutanota * This time + Leave all personal accounts - keep only company and potentially one for youtube + Protonmail - you can use external tools if you want (bridge app) + Migration process - DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARK, MX (All in DNS), Import Emails and Labels from Gmail. + Migration of 700 emails - roughly 1hr + Två domains for my account. + Plan for other account (mbh.se) + Plan for Tutanota
Important to Empty your headI was in Italy for a wedding last week and there was something that really hit me.
When you travel to new places - you get a lot of new impressions (this doesn't have to be achieved by travel - meeting people, exercise, having a hobby) - this will make your brain associate and you will likely find new similarities and patterns. You will be creative. But if your head is already full with thoughts and things you need to remember. You don't have room and this will not happen as frequently.
Thoughts tend to come in the "wrong" place. In the shower. Batteries for the flash light when the power goes out. Bread when you are at work and the important task when you are at the store.
You may get great ideas but you loose them as fast.
Create a habit to quickly capture things and keep them outside of your head. Device tools and strategies to do it easily. I use
- Pen and Paper. Note taker wallet.
- IPhone voice recorder - standard app.
- Drafts - voice-to-text functionality.
Make sure to capture them and store that capture in a place you trust. You will need to come back to it and decide what it means to you and if, and if so, what to do with it.
This Episode was fully recorded and edited on the iPad Pro 11". The sound files was not modified at all outside of the iPad.
Three sections:
- Editing a podcast using Ferrite on the iPad
- Cal Newports book "Deep Work"
- SMART goals
Ferrite can be found in Apple AppStore.
Ep 53 - Mar 17 - Testing Hindenburg Journalist
The "Incoming Book Episode" - Ep 113 - Jun 16 - Incoming books
The Data Detective by Tim Harford - Ep 117 - Jun 28 - The Data Detective by Tim Harford
The show has a new format. Todays topic will be:
- Presentation of the new format
- The iPad Pro 11", Magick Keyboard and what it can be used for.
- Obsidian has been released for iOS for public use.
Links to previous episodes mentioned in the show:
- Ep 93 - May 17 - Moonlander has landed
- Ep 75 - April 20 - All out of Evernote
- Ep 103 - May 31 - 3 Obsidian plugins
Back in Ep 74 – April 19 – Working with emails I talked about an email application called MailMate. It is a small stand alone emailing application that I have been using for the last 2 and something months. Yesterday the trial ended – there must be something wrong with that counter since 18 of April to 28 of June is way more than 30 days. But I don’t complain.
Before I decide which app to use I wanted to try out some other ones as well. One of these are AirMail and that is what I will talk about today.
AirMail is a small Mac OS, iPad OS and iOS mail client. You can use it for free on iOS and iPad OS but to also use it on the desktop you need to subscribe. You get 3 days trial if you jump on a monthly plan. I did and my plan is now to run the application for two months as a trial.
As I have been talking about in the past, I have a lot of email accounts. I may not be getting so much email on them – but it is a pain to check them all. I usually do that with different browsers and different browser profile in Brave to keep the sessions (especially for Office 365) separated. I prefer to not be working with emails in the browser since I find my self to easily distracted.
I will be running the application on both MacOS and iOS – and the experience seems to be quite similar. Here are some things I find quite interesting with the applications:
- Multiple Accounts
As many stand alone applications it is possible to add multiple accounts. I have added Google and standard IMAP accounts so far. It is left to also add a couple of O365 accounts (if allowed) so that I can a full email overview.
There is a few things here that I really liked. It will store the email account settings and sync them over iCloud. That means that it is super fast to setup the accounts on both my laptop and in my iPhone – the only thing I need to do is to authenticated since the password (or token) is not stored on iCloud.
It is possible to give each account a color. When you look in the combined Inbox it is super easy to see what email belongs to what account. A small but nice feature.
- Smart Mailboxes
Just as with MailMate it is possible to setup smart mailboxes. And I use that to get an overview of what I have stored in my “Action Support” and “Waiting For Support” folders to quickly get an understanding of what I need to do or what I am waiting for. I talk a bit more in detail about this in Ep 74.
- Nice looking UI
This is maybe not the most important feature for an application but it never hurts. It is a beautiful application. On both systems. The normal user interface is quite bare with only a few buttons and functions available. But it is highly configurable. This makes it really powerful. The down side is that the configuration pane is huge. So much settings.
- Templates
Maybe not something I will use a lot on the Mac since I use Keyboard Maestro to do text expansion. But on iOS I probably will be using it more. Just as you would expect, you can create text templates that you insert into your emails. Save time and brain power to fix standard type of emails.
- Editing
You have a range of choices to edit your emails. Both a HTML/WYSIWYG editor that seems nice and simple to use. But, if you want to, you can also create your emails with Markdown. This was one of the feature I really liked with MailMate – but I also realised most of my emails are quite simple and plain text will do fine. For me this isn’t a killer feature anymore.
- Sharing
You can interact with a lot of applications from AirMail. The ones I will do to start off with is OmniFocus, DevonThink, Drafts and Bear. Probably in that order when it comes to how much as well. But there are many more application that it is possible to work with. The opportunities here are huge compared to MailMate. This works on both platforms.
This is still something I haven’t used too much yet so it will be great to understand how well it works in reality. One thing that is super interesting is to see if it manage to get “Deep-linking” between OmniFocus and AirMail – e.g. when linking a task to an email to find the references.
There is so many more features in here that I need to explore. I really hope it does work as well as it looks like and that it isn’t just surface.
The price for a month is just shy of $3/month or $10/year. And then you get a pro for all your devices. To use it on your MacOS desktop you must have pro. On your devices it work, but is limited, for free.
I will have an episode with a more in depth review sometime in august when I have gotten some mails through the system.
I hope you had a great weekend. I had a long one. One day extra makes it feel so much longer. Almost like you got two Sundays. I am a bit extra happy since yesterday I got my first covid shot. Yeah!
Last week I actually finished two different books. One of them is the The Data Detective by Tim Harford that I will talk about today.
This books is a book a about statistics. But don’t worry, there is almost no math at all in it. When Harford was young – or at least younger, he read Darrel Huffs book “How to lie with statistics” and loved it. This is a classical book talking about how statistics commonly is being used by fraudsters and tricksters to manipulate people. Statistics has gotten a pretty bad name and Harford claims this has had negative consequences on peoples life and wellbeing. The fight to prove that cigarettes where causing cancer was one of these classical evidences. Harfords intentions with this book is to persuade the reader that statistics can be used to illuminate reality with clarity and honesty.
The book is split up in ten main chapters or the 10 rules. I personally don’t like when books are being split like this. Why is it always an even and nice number – wouldn’t it make sense to have 12 rules or 8?
I have studied quite a bit of maths at the university and statistics being one of the subjects. Thus a lot of the things he discussed was things that wasn’t anything new to me. But if you are less well versed in math I think it gives a pretty good insight into the world of numbers and what do matter.
The chapter that spoke most to me was the fifth rule. This was addressing survivorship bias and related to this publication bias. And how these two biases impact modern science and especially the softer sciences like psychology.
Harford talks in the book about research being done and we only see the result, the successful experiments. We don’t see what was done and didn’t work. This sometimes leads to what is called HARKing – it means Hypothesizing After Results Known. And it means that a scientist does his experiments – looks at the data and then makes the hypothesize – and it will then of course be true. It is nothing wrong looking at data and making hypothesizes – but they then needs to be validated using different experiments.
Daniel Kahneman, nobel laureate and author of thinking fast and slow, and others have been pretty vocal about the state of the science and especially the experiments done. It is a “Train Wreck” to happen. And these discussions has lead to scientist pre-registering their experiments so that HARKing becomes harder. There is also a global effort to retest well known experiments and trying to replicate them. This has in some cases lead to some corner stone research to be questioned when it wasn’t possible to be replicated. The Ego Depletion theory is one of these. But in this specific case the debate is still ongoing since it wasn’t the original experiments that where being replicated. It is quite interesting to follow the discussion and se how the research is done.
A second section I like was when Harford talks about illustrated statistics and this in the form of graphs. He here talks a lot about Florens Nightingale – the British nurse that brought hygiene to military hospitals and completely changed medical history. What many people probably doesn’t know was that she was a statistician and created one of the first really successful graphs that is called the rose diagram. This was specifically to illustrate the severe state in the military hospitals. And it really worked. She got her message through. Which is an extraordinary feat since she was a woman and succeeded in a heavily man dominated space. A great roll model.
I don’t think the book will change my life in any major way. I learned a great deal about statistics – especially linked to the scientific space. Most of the other areas he talks about was not, to me, any major news. But if you think statistics is an area held in shadow or potentially a bit magical. This is a great book to give you some guide lines and things to think about when you are approached with statistics: watch your feelings, be curious.
It has been a very busy week that has been different in many ways. Many reasons why I have not been releasing much the last few days. But after this weekend I hope I will be able to release regularly for at least a week before the summer holiday starts for real. But today I…
It has been a very busy week that has been different in many ways. Many reasons why I have not been releasing much the last few days. But after this weekend I hope I will be able to release regularly for at least a week before the summer holiday starts for real. But today I…
Got a question from Birgitte – who is a fellow obsidian user. StackEdit.io – in browser md editor.
Got a question from Birgitte – who is a fellow obsidian user. StackEdit.io – in browser md editor.
A couple of weeks ago I talked a lot about my fancy new keyboard and mouse. Today I wanted to talk a bit more about that since I now have been using the setup for some time. Logitech MX Ergo 2 – 3 weeks Physical description Good Quiet It is fast Comfortable Good battery time…
A couple of weeks ago I talked a lot about my fancy new keyboard and mouse. Today I wanted to talk a bit more about that since I now have been using the setup for some time. Logitech MX Ergo 2 – 3 weeks Physical description Good Quiet It is fast Comfortable Good battery time…
Yesterday I finally got that book package I have been waiting for for weeks. Today I will talk about these books and give you some thoughts to why I decided to buy them. The Data Detective – Ten easy rules to make sense of statistics by Tim Harford Curtis McHale on YouTube Peak -Secrets from…
Yesterday I finally got that book package I have been waiting for for weeks. Today I will talk about these books and give you some thoughts to why I decided to buy them. The Data Detective – Ten easy rules to make sense of statistics by Tim Harford Curtis McHale on YouTube Peak -Secrets from…
It was some time ago I talked about podcasting so lets do that today! Podcasting may seem like something complicated but it is really something quite simple and anyone can learn how to do it. Let us go through the steps from the beginning to the end. Come up with a topic to talk about.…
It was some time ago I talked about podcasting so lets do that today! Podcasting may seem like something complicated but it is really something quite simple and anyone can learn how to do it. Let us go through the steps from the beginning to the end. Come up with a topic to talk about.…
Yesterday Apples annual World Wide Developer Conference, WWDC, was kicked off. My predictions MacOSx 12, iOS 15 (iPhone + iPad) iPadOS must have significant improvements especially re. multitasking. Taking it closer to a “real” computer. More privacy related updates no apple glass – will not happen! CPU-upgrades. M1X or M2. new Mac Mini and MacBook…
Yesterday Apples annual World Wide Developer Conference, WWDC, was kicked off. My predictions MacOSx 12, iOS 15 (iPhone + iPad) iPadOS must have significant improvements especially re. multitasking. Taking it closer to a “real” computer. More privacy related updates no apple glass – will not happen! CPU-upgrades. M1X or M2. new Mac Mini and MacBook…
In a couple of hours the 2021 World Wide Developer Conference will start. This is Apples next to the iPhone reveal event in the fall, biggest event of the year. Tonight I will of course watch and here are my predictions. First out, this is my first WWDC that I ever follow. I have been…
In a couple of hours the 2021 World Wide Developer Conference will start. This is Apples next to the iPhone reveal event in the fall, biggest event of the year. Tonight I will of course watch and here are my predictions. First out, this is my first WWDC that I ever follow. I have been…
Why I bought the book.Structure – three sections.Writing– is thinking– is leraning– is a way to understandingWhat is Zettelkasten?– Niklas Luhmann– How does it workTitel of the book?
Why I bought the book.Structure – three sections.Writing– is thinking– is leraning– is a way to understandingWhat is Zettelkasten?– Niklas Luhmann– How does it workTitel of the book?
You know by now I’m a productivity nerd and todays episode is about productivity. Even in a bit more detail if Todo-lists really work. A spoiler, yes, they do work. But let’s get into it. Todo lists has been around for a very long time. You can find notes from Benjamin Franklin and how he…
You know by now I’m a productivity nerd and todays episode is about productivity. Even in a bit more detail if Todo-lists really work. A spoiler, yes, they do work. But let’s get into it. Todo lists has been around for a very long time. You can find notes from Benjamin Franklin and how he…
I have talked alot about DevonThink – this episode is about Zotero.
I have talked alot about DevonThink – this episode is about Zotero.
Yes, you are right, I bought a new toy- Clam Shell – Ball on the left side.Scroll wheel – side waysPrecision modeScroll doesn’t seem to always work. And issues with some buttons.Compared with other mouses.Low Noise
Yes, you are right, I bought a new toy- Clam Shell – Ball on the left side.Scroll wheel – side waysPrecision modeScroll doesn’t seem to always work. And issues with some buttons.Compared with other mouses.Low Noise
Fantastic summer weather! Obsidian Templater – use to build smart templates. Populate notes with data when being created from a template.Example: Day note with links,Using the Eta templating engine. Config, Date, File, Fontmatter, Obsidian, System (clipboard, prompt ), WebExample: Pull in a quote Obsidian Kanban – create a kanban board. Markdown file with todos under…
Fantastic summer weather! Obsidian Templater – use to build smart templates. Populate notes with data when being created from a template.Example: Day note with links,Using the Eta templating engine. Config, Date, File, Fontmatter, Obsidian, System (clipboard, prompt ), WebExample: Pull in a quote Obsidian Kanban – create a kanban board. Markdown file with todos under…
Todays episode will be about another book. I have just completed Mortimer J Adler and Charles Van Dorens’s classic, How to Read a Book. This will be a brief review about this pretty huge book. As you may recall from previous episodes I try to read actively when I read. And during this process I…
Todays episode will be about another book. I have just completed Mortimer J Adler and Charles Van Dorens’s classic, How to Read a Book. This will be a brief review about this pretty huge book. As you may recall from previous episodes I try to read actively when I read. And during this process I…
This has become a habit. Lets talk about that for a while. What is a habit?Good and bad habitsWould you want to develop habits?How can you get a new habit? Start small Schedule reminders Reward your self Reinforce the long term goal Remove feeling of guilt How can you stop a bad habit Get clinical…
This has become a habit. Lets talk about that for a while. What is a habit?Good and bad habitsWould you want to develop habits?How can you get a new habit? Start small Schedule reminders Reward your self Reinforce the long term goal Remove feeling of guilt How can you stop a bad habit Get clinical…
Wow! 100 episodes, I didn’t expect that when I started to record every day back in december. I really enjoy this and I am looking forward to another 100 episodes. This is all about habits. I have the same procedure every day. I come in through the door and I always have the idea what…
Wow! 100 episodes, I didn’t expect that when I started to record every day back in december. I really enjoy this and I am looking forward to another 100 episodes. This is all about habits. I have the same procedure every day. I come in through the door and I always have the idea what…
Good morning I hope you have had a great week end. Over here it was grey and cold. At least the trees and bushes has a nice light green color. Today it is a great spring morning with better temperatures and the sun showing it beautiful face. Today I want to talk about a small…
Good morning I hope you have had a great week end. Over here it was grey and cold. At least the trees and bushes has a nice light green color. Today it is a great spring morning with better temperatures and the sun showing it beautiful face. Today I want to talk about a small…
Friday and another week has past. Yesterday was a great day with the release of the new podcast and also a great interview for a later episode. But today I wanted to talk about something completely different. Today I’ll talk about OmniFocus. OmniFocus is the list manager I currently use. Don’t take todays episode as…
Friday and another week has past. Yesterday was a great day with the release of the new podcast and also a great interview for a later episode. But today I wanted to talk about something completely different. Today I’ll talk about OmniFocus. OmniFocus is the list manager I currently use. Don’t take todays episode as…
Two weeks ago I talked about how I manage my websites. I shortly mentioned Hugo. You can read more about that in Ep 86 – May 5 – How to manage a website. Currently I’m working on a project where a web page was needed. I will likely talk more about this projekt tomorrow. What…
Two weeks ago I talked about how I manage my websites. I shortly mentioned Hugo. You can read more about that in Ep 86 – May 5 – How to manage a website. Currently I’m working on a project where a web page was needed. I will likely talk more about this projekt tomorrow. What…
SciFi & FantasyTerry Goodkind – Wizzards First Rule
SciFi & FantasyTerry Goodkind – Wizzards First Rule
I have multiple times talked about my mechanical keyboard. Now my keyboard family has grown even more! A while back I noticed a keyboard that had gotten the name the Moonlander. It is hard to explain how it looks like but I will give it a try! Imagine an ergonomical keyboard with its two parts…
I have multiple times talked about my mechanical keyboard. Now my keyboard family has grown even more! A while back I noticed a keyboard that had gotten the name the Moonlander. It is hard to explain how it looks like but I will give it a try! Imagine an ergonomical keyboard with its two parts…
Yesterday it was a red-day here in Sweden. That was the reason you didn’t get an episode. It was fantastic summer weather and we also had a bit of thunder just as you should when it is.. ehh… summer. A year ago I wrote a blog post “How I used ffmpeg to create time-laps videos…
Yesterday it was a red-day here in Sweden. That was the reason you didn’t get an episode. It was fantastic summer weather and we also had a bit of thunder just as you should when it is.. ehh… summer. A year ago I wrote a blog post “How I used ffmpeg to create time-laps videos…
Today I am going to talk about password and password management. It is probably 10 years ago by now but back then I stored all my passwords in a note in Evernote called password. I encrypted the note of course to make it harder to get hold of them. But it was a bit of…
Today I am going to talk about password and password management. It is probably 10 years ago by now but back then I stored all my passwords in a note in Evernote called password. I encrypted the note of course to make it harder to get hold of them. But it was a bit of…
I was planning to talk about the 2 minute rule today. But to do that I first would need to do an introduction of Getting Things Done. So here it is. I am a certified GTD trainer. Personal Productivity Methodology compiled by David Allen. After 30 years of consultancy in the productivity space he wrote…
I was planning to talk about the 2 minute rule today. But to do that I first would need to do an introduction of Getting Things Done. So here it is. I am a certified GTD trainer. Personal Productivity Methodology compiled by David Allen. After 30 years of consultancy in the productivity space he wrote…
Summer is here! During my weekend I read books, edit podcasts and tried to learn workman. Workman – a variant of Colemak (17 vs 21 moved keys). Before 70 wpm and now down to 10. You can find more about keyboard in Ep 85 – May 4 – Keyboard Layouts. Will train 10-20min a day…
Summer is here! During my weekend I read books, edit podcasts and tried to learn workman. Workman – a variant of Colemak (17 vs 21 moved keys). Before 70 wpm and now down to 10. You can find more about keyboard in Ep 85 – May 4 – Keyboard Layouts. Will train 10-20min a day…
Friday again. Time is flying when you are having fun. Yesterday I was doing a super interesting interview with Michael Sliwinski for the new podcast we are starting. It will be ready for release in a couple of weeks and I am looking forward to that a lot. And of course I will talk more…
Friday again. Time is flying when you are having fun. Yesterday I was doing a super interesting interview with Michael Sliwinski for the new podcast we are starting. It will be ready for release in a couple of weeks and I am looking forward to that a lot. And of course I will talk more…
You may recall that I talked earlier this week about school for my kids being closed because of a Covid outbreak. This was something that was definitely unplanned and it came very sudden. This happens from time to time in peoples life – but how do you deal with it when it happens. Because it…
You may recall that I talked earlier this week about school for my kids being closed because of a Covid outbreak. This was something that was definitely unplanned and it came very sudden. This happens from time to time in peoples life – but how do you deal with it when it happens. Because it…
Are you running a website? I am, a few actually. I’m predominantly on WordPress and today I will talk a bit about how I got there and why I choose to use that! I have been using different type of Content Management Systems, CMS, for many years. I think I used my first on back…
Are you running a website? I am, a few actually. I’m predominantly on WordPress and today I will talk a bit about how I got there and why I choose to use that! I have been using different type of Content Management Systems, CMS, for many years. I think I used my first on back…
I write a lot on my keyboard. Every day. I do plenty of coding, documentation and also different type of content creation. Both for my own website but also for my work place website. I know I start to get old but somedays I can feel pretty rough in my neck and shoulders. Thus ergonomi…
I write a lot on my keyboard. Every day. I do plenty of coding, documentation and also different type of content creation. Both for my own website but also for my work place website. I know I start to get old but somedays I can feel pretty rough in my neck and shoulders. Thus ergonomi…
Welcome back. I hope you had a great weekend. I for sure did. And I didn’t spend much time infront of the computer – and that is, for me, a good thing! Last week I got a new app recommended to me. Hook from over at https://hookproductivity.com/. I have started to test it out –…
Welcome back. I hope you had a great weekend. I for sure did. And I didn’t spend much time infront of the computer – and that is, for me, a good thing! Last week I got a new app recommended to me. Hook from over at https://hookproductivity.com/. I have started to test it out –…
Todays episode will be about books. I will do a book summary about Drive by Daniel Pink since I just completed it. In addition to this I will talk shortly about two new books that has come into my reading list and are next in line to be read. Let’s get at it! Drive is a book…
Todays episode will be about books. I will do a book summary about Drive by Daniel Pink since I just completed it. In addition to this I will talk shortly about two new books that has come into my reading list and are next in line to be read. Let’s get at it! Drive is a book…
I have. not been talking much about podcast this week, so why not throw in an episode about what’s going on in this space. I am pretty interested in what is going on here since I am running multiple podcasts. But let’s jump into the content. Last week Apple had the big spring event i…
I have. not been talking much about podcast this week, so why not throw in an episode about what’s going on in this space. I am pretty interested in what is going on here since I am running multiple podcasts. But let’s jump into the content. Last week Apple had the big spring event i…
I am a reading person. I always read, sometimes more. Today I will probably receive “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler. In todays episode I wanted to talk a bit about how I do my reading today. And maybe in a few weeks we can talk about any potential changes I will…
I am a reading person. I always read, sometimes more. Today I will probably receive “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler. In todays episode I wanted to talk a bit about how I do my reading today. And maybe in a few weeks we can talk about any potential changes I will…
Today we are going to become a bit more technical than usual. I wanted to talk about an open source ETL-tool called Node Red. Let’s get to it! To start this thing off I probably should explain what an ETL-tool is. ETL stands for Extract Transfer and Load. These tools are used to automate integrations…
Today we are going to become a bit more technical than usual. I wanted to talk about an open source ETL-tool called Node Red. Let’s get to it! To start this thing off I probably should explain what an ETL-tool is. ETL stands for Extract Transfer and Load. These tools are used to automate integrations…
Hello, I hope you had a great weekend. Over here in Sweden we had a beautiful sun but it was cold and windy so definetly still early spring. But the light is fantastic. Today I wanted to talk a bit about DevonThink since it is an application that is being used more and more in…
Hello, I hope you had a great weekend. Over here in Sweden we had a beautiful sun but it was cold and windy so definetly still early spring. But the light is fantastic. Today I wanted to talk a bit about DevonThink since it is an application that is being used more and more in…
Do you sometimes avoid doing things that you know you should do. And by avoiding it you know you would suffer negative consequences? Most of us do and that is to procrastinate. We are behaving in a way based on feelings even though our logical mind tells us to act differently. I am my self…
Do you sometimes avoid doing things that you know you should do. And by avoiding it you know you would suffer negative consequences? Most of us do and that is to procrastinate. We are behaving in a way based on feelings even though our logical mind tells us to act differently. I am my self…
I have in multiple other episodes talked about note taking applications. Mainly Evernote and Obsidian. Today I wanted to switch focus away from the tech into process and how you can write and organize documentation. There are many different ways and approaches to this that you can take and it will likely be a very…
I have in multiple other episodes talked about note taking applications. Mainly Evernote and Obsidian. Today I wanted to switch focus away from the tech into process and how you can write and organize documentation. There are many different ways and approaches to this that you can take and it will likely be a very…
Yesterday evening Apple hosted another event and of course I was hanging around to see what news they where releasing. Todays episode will be my report back from that event. First of all, and probably most interesting for me as a podcast, is the updates they are doing to podcasting. There is actyally quite a…
Yesterday evening Apple hosted another event and of course I was hanging around to see what news they where releasing. Todays episode will be my report back from that event. First of all, and probably most interesting for me as a podcast, is the updates they are doing to podcasting. There is actyally quite a…
Hey and good morning. As you probably noticed yesterday – I didn’t have a clue what date it was. Isn’t that relieving!? Today I’m going to continue to talk about my Evernote adventure – let get rocking. As you may recall, last week I talked a bit about my issues with Evernote and that I…
Hey and good morning. As you probably noticed yesterday – I didn’t have a clue what date it was. Isn’t that relieving!? Today I’m going to continue to talk about my Evernote adventure – let get rocking. As you may recall, last week I talked a bit about my issues with Evernote and that I…
Time is flying and it is already Monday. I hope your weekend was as good as mine. Today I wanted breifly to talk about onther thing that has anyoed me for quite some time. And that is my email handeling. I have many different email accounts – personal, work and sometimes client email inboxes too.…
Time is flying and it is already Monday. I hope your weekend was as good as mine. Today I wanted breifly to talk about onther thing that has anyoed me for quite some time. And that is my email handeling. I have many different email accounts – personal, work and sometimes client email inboxes too.…
Finally Friday!? We have nice spring weather in Sweden and the forecast for the weekend look fantastic. I switched out my mechanical keyboard for an apple magic keyboard (I had in the shelves) – but now I’m back with the mechanical keyboard again. There is no feeling as good as writing on a mechanical keyboard.…
Finally Friday!? We have nice spring weather in Sweden and the forecast for the weekend look fantastic. I switched out my mechanical keyboard for an apple magic keyboard (I had in the shelves) – but now I’m back with the mechanical keyboard again. There is no feeling as good as writing on a mechanical keyboard.…
Allways projects going on… good for learning good for creativity good fun Currently I have a few projects going on: The clock that grew. A silent studio clock. Quite expensive – 400-600 euros Raspberry PI and LED Raspberry PI and a screen Show the current date and time Show the calendar Switch screens Start &…
Allways projects going on… good for learning good for creativity good fun Currently I have a few projects going on: The clock that grew. A silent studio clock. Quite expensive – 400-600 euros Raspberry PI and LED Raspberry PI and a screen Show the current date and time Show the calendar Switch screens Start &…
Bold statement Listeners perspective Storytelling – is 10th of thousands years old No video and no written word Activates our imagination Can be consumed both actively and passively Creators perspective Writing – needs more effort and creativity Writing – can be hard to spell and get everything grammatically correct Video – way more time consuming…
Bold statement Listeners perspective Storytelling – is 10th of thousands years old No video and no written word Activates our imagination Can be consumed both actively and passively Creators perspective Writing – needs more effort and creativity Writing – can be hard to spell and get everything grammatically correct Video – way more time consuming…
Today I’m doing a bit different type of show. Today I wanted to talk a bit about some tech news and provide a bit of commentary around them. — Multiple different sources reports that as much as 42 episodes of The Joe Rogan show has been taken down by Spotify. It was part of the…
Today I’m doing a bit different type of show. Today I wanted to talk a bit about some tech news and provide a bit of commentary around them. — Multiple different sources reports that as much as 42 episodes of The Joe Rogan show has been taken down by Spotify. It was part of the…
Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. Mine was good – but we have typical April weather over hear. One minute sunny and blue sky – the next snowing and raining. At least the days start to become longer. Last week I talked alot about Evernote and how disappointed I as when I…
Good morning! I hope you had a great weekend. Mine was good – but we have typical April weather over hear. One minute sunny and blue sky – the next snowing and raining. At least the days start to become longer. Last week I talked alot about Evernote and how disappointed I as when I…
If you are a streamer or a podcaster you probably have head about the RødeCaster Pro. If not I will give you a quick description of what it is. The RødeCaster is an intelligent mixer. You connect you microphone or microphones, bluetooth devices and your line in devices. You also have 8 programmable sound pads…
If you are a streamer or a podcaster you probably have head about the RødeCaster Pro. If not I will give you a quick description of what it is. The RødeCaster is an intelligent mixer. You connect you microphone or microphones, bluetooth devices and your line in devices. You also have 8 programmable sound pads…
In Sweden vi have an expression that goes something like: The droplet that caused the beaker to overflow. or The last nail in the coffin. I believe that english equivivalent would be The straw that broke the camels back. Last week the droplet made the beaker overflow, downing the camel so we need to put…
In Sweden vi have an expression that goes something like: The droplet that caused the beaker to overflow. or The last nail in the coffin. I believe that english equivivalent would be The straw that broke the camels back. Last week the droplet made the beaker overflow, downing the camel so we need to put…
The other day I came across something that was completely new to me. You may have heard of it before since it is nothing new. But since I enjoyed it I decided to talk about it here too. In 2005 the Kansas State Board was about to put Intelligent Design, or ID, as a way…
The other day I came across something that was completely new to me. You may have heard of it before since it is nothing new. But since I enjoyed it I decided to talk about it here too. In 2005 the Kansas State Board was about to put Intelligent Design, or ID, as a way…
I hope you had a great weekend. I had for sure. We didn’t really celebrate Easter but we spent a lot of time together, enjoying the weather and resting. Just before the holiday I promised I was going to talk about journaling and how I do it. So, let’s do that today! I have in…
I hope you had a great weekend. I had for sure. We didn’t really celebrate Easter but we spent a lot of time together, enjoying the weather and resting. Just before the holiday I promised I was going to talk about journaling and how I do it. So, let’s do that today! I have in…
April and spring is here. Beautiful weather the last few days. Almost summer temperatures. As you probably can hear – my cold is almost gone now. I was listening back to the recording from yesterday and wow, my voice was really bad. Easter weekend is coming up – next episode will be on Wednesday next…
April and spring is here. Beautiful weather the last few days. Almost summer temperatures. As you probably can hear – my cold is almost gone now. I was listening back to the recording from yesterday and wow, my voice was really bad. Easter weekend is coming up – next episode will be on Wednesday next…
My cold is still on going. But I don’t know if you can hear any difference but I feel a lot better today. I read an article from the Swedish IT newspaper breakit. Where they mention that Spotify is developing their “Clubhouse” killer. Spotify has bought “Betty Labs” a digital development studio from LA. They…
My cold is still on going. But I don’t know if you can hear any difference but I feel a lot better today. I read an article from the Swedish IT newspaper breakit. Where they mention that Spotify is developing their “Clubhouse” killer. Spotify has bought “Betty Labs” a digital development studio from LA. They…
My cold is still on going. That will determine the length of this episode… There are a few things that can determine the length of you show: How much time do you have. What quality level do you set? Prep time Production and editing time Your audience. How do they consume your content? What do…
My cold is still on going. That will determine the length of this episode… There are a few things that can determine the length of you show: How much time do you have. What quality level do you set? Prep time Production and editing time Your audience. How do they consume your content? What do…
I hope you had a great weekend. Mine was good but I have catched this bad cold. Coughing and runny nose. I will keep todays episode short to save my throat. I this part of Sweden it’s easter break this week. Schools closed and kids are home. The oldest son wanted to play minecraft with…
I hope you had a great weekend. Mine was good but I have catched this bad cold. Coughing and runny nose. I will keep todays episode short to save my throat. I this part of Sweden it’s easter break this week. Schools closed and kids are home. The oldest son wanted to play minecraft with…
Recently I interviewed Gilly Smith – a podcaster, author and foodie from the UK. She talked about a lot of podcast but mentioned the BBC Sounds “The Missing Crypto Queen” as one of her favourites. Naturally I had to listen to it. The Missing Crypto Queen is a podcast that focus on Dr Ruja Ignatova…
Recently I interviewed Gilly Smith – a podcaster, author and foodie from the UK. She talked about a lot of podcast but mentioned the BBC Sounds “The Missing Crypto Queen” as one of her favourites. Naturally I had to listen to it. The Missing Crypto Queen is a podcast that focus on Dr Ruja Ignatova…
The keynote went off this morning and it went well. No major issues or problems. That means that I prepared well – and you have been with me on that journey. There was so much to learn and it was quite fun. As long as there is enough time to do that the feeling is…
The keynote went off this morning and it went well. No major issues or problems. That means that I prepared well – and you have been with me on that journey. There was so much to learn and it was quite fun. As long as there is enough time to do that the feeling is…
Tomorrow is the big day. The keynote. But yesterday there was a bit of a panic when I did some last minute rehearshals. Yesterday I did some last technical rehearsals and I found out that the Video went out fine to the Zoom-meeting but no sound. Just to give you an understanding how the setup.…
Tomorrow is the big day. The keynote. But yesterday there was a bit of a panic when I did some last minute rehearshals. Yesterday I did some last technical rehearsals and I found out that the Video went out fine to the Zoom-meeting but no sound. Just to give you an understanding how the setup.…
Recently “The Podcast Host” published an article with updated statistics gathered from multiple sources called “Podcast Statistics: The Latest 2021 Industry Stats & Trends“. I will talk a bit about the findings in this and the conclusions I draw fram this data. We will look at Number of podcasts Number of active podcasts Listening statistics…
Recently “The Podcast Host” published an article with updated statistics gathered from multiple sources called “Podcast Statistics: The Latest 2021 Industry Stats & Trends“. I will talk a bit about the findings in this and the conclusions I draw fram this data. We will look at Number of podcasts Number of active podcasts Listening statistics…
I hope you had a great weekend. I had. It was great spring weather so we could spend a lot of time outside. During the weekend I watched a YouTube clip by Benn Jordan where he does a trip to a nature reserve to record ambient sounds. He had to do a lot of preparations…
I hope you had a great weekend. I had. It was great spring weather so we could spend a lot of time outside. During the weekend I watched a YouTube clip by Benn Jordan where he does a trip to a nature reserve to record ambient sounds. He had to do a lot of preparations…
I have had one thing in my system that has been a bit problematic. And that is all files and notes that I use for my various projects. I have used a lot of different systems and now I have things everywhere. This causes of course some issues when I need to find stuff. I…
I have had one thing in my system that has been a bit problematic. And that is all files and notes that I use for my various projects. I have used a lot of different systems and now I have things everywhere. This causes of course some issues when I need to find stuff. I…
In Ep# 45 I talked a bit about Stoicism and that was pretty popular. And since that is an interest of mine I wanted to talk a bit more about it. I read. A lot and different things. From SciFi, to Self-help books to Philosophy. A a while back I found Marcus Aurelius “Meditations”. First…
In Ep# 45 I talked a bit about Stoicism and that was pretty popular. And since that is an interest of mine I wanted to talk a bit more about it. I read. A lot and different things. From SciFi, to Self-help books to Philosophy. A a while back I found Marcus Aurelius “Meditations”. First…
Before I used Audacity. And currently I use Audition to edit. They are both really good but there is something missing when it comes to editing. I have heard a lot about ProTools, Reaper and Hindenburg. I looked around a bit – ProTools didn’t look like a tools for me and certainly not an improvement…
Before I used Audacity. And currently I use Audition to edit. They are both really good but there is something missing when it comes to editing. I have heard a lot about ProTools, Reaper and Hindenburg. I looked around a bit – ProTools didn’t look like a tools for me and certainly not an improvement…
Last Friday I made a test Stream on Twitch. Goal was to make sure the equipment work as it should and also become more familiar with it. Did a live tutorial of how you can create an Audiogram using the creative suite. If you are interested of this you can soon find the recording on…
Last Friday I made a test Stream on Twitch. Goal was to make sure the equipment work as it should and also become more familiar with it. Did a live tutorial of how you can create an Audiogram using the creative suite. If you are interested of this you can soon find the recording on…
I hope you all had a great weekend! I for sure had! I spent some time during the weekend to fix some reverb issues in a sound file for a podcast. It not easy and the dereverb filter in Audition didn’t do anything to improve the situation. I also downloaded some 3rd party filters but…
I hope you all had a great weekend! I for sure had! I spent some time during the weekend to fix some reverb issues in a sound file for a podcast. It not easy and the dereverb filter in Audition didn’t do anything to improve the situation. I also downloaded some 3rd party filters but…
We’ve reached episode 50 – that is great right. Worth celebrating. And we will do that by streaming this afternoon. But more about that tonight. Today I will talk about to topics. The second one is going to be revisiting OBS and NDS and the first will be… Elgato Stream Deck. I ordered one a…
We’ve reached episode 50 – that is great right. Worth celebrating. And we will do that by streaming this afternoon. But more about that tonight. Today I will talk about to topics. The second one is going to be revisiting OBS and NDS and the first will be… Elgato Stream Deck. I ordered one a…
Welcome back – today we will switch focus and look back to Streaming again. As you know I will be doing a pretty big Keynote in a while. And will be doing this over a stream. This time I will talk about a different way to get video from cohosts or guest into your stream,…
Welcome back – today we will switch focus and look back to Streaming again. As you know I will be doing a pretty big Keynote in a while. And will be doing this over a stream. This time I will talk about a different way to get video from cohosts or guest into your stream,…
Welcome back – today we continue talking about audiograms. If you didn’t listen to yesterdays episode I recommend that you do that. In that episode I talked about two online services that can help you create audiogram for you without any major previously knowledge. Today we will talk about a different way to do these…
Welcome back – today we continue talking about audiograms. If you didn’t listen to yesterdays episode I recommend that you do that. In that episode I talked about two online services that can help you create audiogram for you without any major previously knowledge. Today we will talk about a different way to do these…
Welcome back – today we have a show about audiograms. This is small recording that you can use to market your podcast (or anything else really). Usually they have a wave-form displayed to indicate that there is audio. Important to be clear when you are communicating. I have found two service that can help out…
Welcome back – today we have a show about audiograms. This is small recording that you can use to market your podcast (or anything else really). Usually they have a wave-form displayed to indicate that there is audio. Important to be clear when you are communicating. I have found two service that can help out…
Hope you had a great weekend. I spent mine troubleshooting some noise. Let’s talk about that. Friday I made a recording of “The Podcast” and during the prep. I found that I had some irritating noise on the mic. You may have heard it in the last few episode – a small buzz on top of…
Hope you had a great weekend. I spent mine troubleshooting some noise. Let’s talk about that. Friday I made a recording of “The Podcast” and during the prep. I found that I had some irritating noise on the mic. You may have heard it in the last few episode – a small buzz on top of…
Stoicism is an old Greek / Roman philosophy. I came across it while finding references to Marcus Aurelius book Meditation. Other interesting authors are Seneca and Epictetus. And I recommend to explore them in the order I mentioned: Marcus, Seneca and the Epictetus. I read, on a daily basis, a page from Ryan Holidays book…
Stoicism is an old Greek / Roman philosophy. I came across it while finding references to Marcus Aurelius book Meditation. Other interesting authors are Seneca and Epictetus. And I recommend to explore them in the order I mentioned: Marcus, Seneca and the Epictetus. I read, on a daily basis, a page from Ryan Holidays book…
Getting Things Done, GTD, is a personal productivity methodology that I have been using for many years. It was developed over 30 years by David Allen and he released a book with the same name. It’s two-dimensional: Horizons of focus – describes the different horizons or levels of your life. Workflow – how to handle…
Getting Things Done, GTD, is a personal productivity methodology that I have been using for many years. It was developed over 30 years by David Allen and he released a book with the same name. It’s two-dimensional: Horizons of focus – describes the different horizons or levels of your life. Workflow – how to handle…
Yesterday I connected to my phone through the RødeCaster Pro while I was moderating a room. This worked really well. Sound quality was super good! If you want to know more about what I was doing – listen to episode 42 of the podcast. I have started to look at Hazel that is a small…
Yesterday I connected to my phone through the RødeCaster Pro while I was moderating a room. This worked really well. Sound quality was super good! If you want to know more about what I was doing – listen to episode 42 of the podcast. I have started to look at Hazel that is a small…
Martin in the studio with a cold on his umbilical cord (?). Today I will a moderator for a Clubhouse Room and will try to have good audio. I’m going to hook-up my Shure SM7B, Sony MDR-7506 and the RødeCaster Pro to my phone and use that for the conversation. The RødeCaster has the capabillity…
Martin in the studio with a cold on his umbilical cord (?). Today I will a moderator for a Clubhouse Room and will try to have good audio. I’m going to hook-up my Shure SM7B, Sony MDR-7506 and the RødeCaster Pro to my phone and use that for the conversation. The RødeCaster has the capabillity…
Back after winter break in Sweden. Spring has arrived. Sun and warm! During the long weekend I worked on editing a podcast episode that I will release next Thursday. It takes super long time. Normally it takes 3 times the length of the podcast. This is a 35min long episode and thus it should take…
Back after winter break in Sweden. Spring has arrived. Sun and warm! During the long weekend I worked on editing a podcast episode that I will release next Thursday. It takes super long time. Normally it takes 3 times the length of the podcast. This is a 35min long episode and thus it should take…
Winter break is ongoing in Sweden – no more episodes this week but we are back on Monday again! As you may know from listening to the this podcast in the past I have some issues while streaming. Mainly that the Mac is running hot so that the fans starts and runs loudly which is…
Winter break is ongoing in Sweden – no more episodes this week but we are back on Monday again! As you may know from listening to the this podcast in the past I have some issues while streaming. Mainly that the Mac is running hot so that the fans starts and runs loudly which is…
Yesterday Spotify had its big Stream On event. This was the first Spotify event I have participated in (when it comes to product release or product information). I have been working as a consultant for Spotify and liked it and joined a few of their parties. I think the biggest news was that they now…
Yesterday Spotify had its big Stream On event. This was the first Spotify event I have participated in (when it comes to product release or product information). I have been working as a consultant for Spotify and liked it and joined a few of their parties. I think the biggest news was that they now…
Winter break – a lot of people is going skiing. Schools closed – we are gonna get a Corona shit storm in 2 weeks time. Need to find a way to evaluate how to communicate for the keynote. 180 participants. Zoom – limit of 100. Add-on to increase Zoom Webinar’s or the webinar editions Google…
Winter break – a lot of people is going skiing. Schools closed – we are gonna get a Corona shit storm in 2 weeks time. Need to find a way to evaluate how to communicate for the keynote. 180 participants. Zoom – limit of 100. Add-on to increase Zoom Webinar’s or the webinar editions Google…
Dog’s birthday – Boss is turning 1 today. Wee!! Todays recoding is done live on Twitch. Mainly to test out all the equipment and find potential issues. Recording in Audacity instead of on the RødeCaster Pro. a6100 is hooked up front-left and this is the main camera. m50 is hooked up back-left with a view…
Dog’s birthday – Boss is turning 1 today. Wee!! Todays recoding is done live on Twitch. Mainly to test out all the equipment and find potential issues. Recording in Audacity instead of on the RødeCaster Pro. a6100 is hooked up front-left and this is the main camera. m50 is hooked up back-left with a view…
The package did arrive yesterday – and well in time! The package contained: A new camera – a Sony a6100. I don’t know all the photographic details. But I’m going to use it to record video recordings and to stream. Clean HDMI-out. No icons etc. No Power Off (after 30min) 4k 30fps No over heating…
The package did arrive yesterday – and well in time! The package contained: A new camera – a Sony a6100. I don’t know all the photographic details. But I’m going to use it to record video recordings and to stream. Clean HDMI-out. No icons etc. No Power Off (after 30min) 4k 30fps No over heating…
In the studio with the dog again. A very snowy night and we gotten at least 10cm. Still pouring down. A recipes for kaos…. Yesterday I created a transition in After Effects for my upcoming keynotes. If you know of any free and open source tool for creating animations please let me know! I have…
In the studio with the dog again. A very snowy night and we gotten at least 10cm. Still pouring down. A recipes for kaos…. Yesterday I created a transition in After Effects for my upcoming keynotes. If you know of any free and open source tool for creating animations please let me know! I have…
I have been using Clubhouse for a while now and start to form my opinion about it. I really like it – there are some really nice and interesting conversation you can listen into and take part of. But I believe there is quite a few problems on the horizon. Hype – the hype will…
I have been using Clubhouse for a while now and start to form my opinion about it. I really like it – there are some really nice and interesting conversation you can listen into and take part of. But I believe there is quite a few problems on the horizon. Hype – the hype will…
Spent time during the weekend to fix in the studio. Got a lot done: Completed the painting of the wall Mounted steel wires in the roof to hang equipment Hung the retro lamps on the wires. Studio is now ready to be used! I also ordered some equipment that I will need for the keynote.…
Spent time during the weekend to fix in the studio. Got a lot done: Completed the painting of the wall Mounted steel wires in the roof to hang equipment Hung the retro lamps on the wires. Studio is now ready to be used! I also ordered some equipment that I will need for the keynote.…
Yesterday I continued to test the setup of the Canon m50. And I’m happy I did. After 30minutes the camera stopped sending the video feed. Seems to be a built in limitation. I found the Canon Webcam Utility that solved it for me. Lower resolution compared to Camera Live There is a slight lag –…
Yesterday I continued to test the setup of the Canon m50. And I’m happy I did. After 30minutes the camera stopped sending the video feed. Seems to be a built in limitation. I found the Canon Webcam Utility that solved it for me. Lower resolution compared to Camera Live There is a slight lag –…
Yesterday I talked about the Getting Things Done® keynote I will hold in a little bit. And because I cannot do this presentation in person I will need to do it digitally but I want to do a good show. And thus I need to do some testing. I got Camera Live to work –…
Yesterday I talked about the Getting Things Done® keynote I will hold in a little bit. And because I cannot do this presentation in person I will need to do it digitally but I want to do a good show. And thus I need to do some testing. I got Camera Live to work –…
I will be doing a keynote for a company. One of the things I do is to do trainings in Getting Things Done® and will soon also become a GTD® coach. The keynote will be about this topic. Normally these keynotes are in real life but due to Covid this one will be digital. I…
I will be doing a keynote for a company. One of the things I do is to do trainings in Getting Things Done® and will soon also become a GTD® coach. The keynote will be about this topic. Normally these keynotes are in real life but due to Covid this one will be digital. I…
I got access to Clubhouse. A new social network with focus on conversational audio. Rooms to connect to and listen into Friends Thoughts? If I was not into podcasting I would probably not continue with the app. What’s the fuzz? Interesting since new – new opportunities and possibillities. Mainly focused on interaction. Content needs to…
I got access to Clubhouse. A new social network with focus on conversational audio. Rooms to connect to and listen into Friends Thoughts? If I was not into podcasting I would probably not continue with the app. What’s the fuzz? Interesting since new – new opportunities and possibillities. Mainly focused on interaction. Content needs to…
I have struggled with mobile interference while doing recording. But now I have hopefully solved it (I hope this doesn’t jinx it). I did a lot of things to find it: Moved microphone to a different location Moved alarm box (with built in cellphone) Removed components from the microphone – chain But when I removed…
I have struggled with mobile interference while doing recording. But now I have hopefully solved it (I hope this doesn’t jinx it). I did a lot of things to find it: Moved microphone to a different location Moved alarm box (with built in cellphone) Removed components from the microphone – chain But when I removed…
Episode 2 of my Swedish Podcast was released yesterday – you can find the homepage for that show here. Continued issues with interference from a mobile source. It’s not my iPhone – it’s on airplane mode Start of interference started roughly when the alarm was installed. I talked a bit my studio and why have…
Episode 2 of my Swedish Podcast was released yesterday – you can find the homepage for that show here. Continued issues with interference from a mobile source. It’s not my iPhone – it’s on airplane mode Start of interference started roughly when the alarm was installed. I talked a bit my studio and why have…
Still mobile interference – located and I will try have that fixed. But I need to get in touch with the alarm company. Today I speak about the Remarkable. “eInk paper tablet”. Super thin – 4-5mm. e-Reader – like the Kindle or one of the Sony devices. You can read ePub or PDF-files. Writing device…
Still mobile interference – located and I will try have that fixed. But I need to get in touch with the alarm company. Today I speak about the Remarkable. “eInk paper tablet”. Super thin – 4-5mm. e-Reader – like the Kindle or one of the Sony devices. You can read ePub or PDF-files. Writing device…
Mobile interference – hopefully not hearing that anymore. Evernote – my go to note taking app. But I’m looking for something different since nothing has really happened with it. Same feature and some problems with the same feature. I pay premium and should get support, but their service is really poor. Would like to find…
Mobile interference – hopefully not hearing that anymore. Evernote – my go to note taking app. But I’m looking for something different since nothing has really happened with it. Same feature and some problems with the same feature. I pay premium and should get support, but their service is really poor. Would like to find…
I have cleaning up the application flora I am using. I am abit worried about how the different applications providers are using the data they gather about me. So I decided to start hosting some tools myself. I started with the tools I use for my news and article reading. I do this by using…
I have cleaning up the application flora I am using. I am abit worried about how the different applications providers are using the data they gather about me. So I decided to start hosting some tools myself. I started with the tools I use for my news and article reading. I do this by using…
I found a thread somewhere on social media or a forum (can’t remember where anymore) about having a website or not for your podcast. This episode provides my thoughts about having it or not. Where do you send you listeners when talking about your show? Full control over the experience No real limits to what…
I found a thread somewhere on social media or a forum (can’t remember where anymore) about having a website or not for your podcast. This episode provides my thoughts about having it or not. Where do you send you listeners when talking about your show? Full control over the experience No real limits to what…
I conclude my thoughts, that I started right before I got sick about the new tags in the podcast 2.0 namespace. This time I share how I see these being used to improve the experience for all podcast listeners.
I conclude my thoughts, that I started right before I got sick about the new tags in the podcast 2.0 namespace. This time I share how I see these being used to improve the experience for all podcast listeners.
I have been away for one and a half week. I got Corona and in this episode I describe how it affected me. Stay safe out there!
We continue the discussion about Podcasting 2.0 – we go into Where you find the documentation. That it is an extension to xml / namespace So far defined 5 new tags
We continue the discussion about Podcasting 2.0 – we go into Where you find the documentation. That it is an extension to xml / namespace So far defined 5 new tags
Adam Curry and Dave Jones are among others working on the Podcast Index and Podcast 2.0. Podcast Index is a new Podcast Catalog that is not tied to a big corporate. At todays there are almost 1.4 million podcasts and the increase rate is close to 60k podcasts a day. That will make it a…
Adam Curry and Dave Jones are among others working on the Podcast Index and Podcast 2.0. Podcast Index is a new Podcast Catalog that is not tied to a big corporate. At todays there are almost 1.4 million podcasts and the increase rate is close to 60k podcasts a day. That will make it a…
During the Christmas and New Years break I had time to read a few books. How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast, by Gilly Smith. A great book for both the new podcaster and the experienced producer. There are something in it for everyone. Almost no technology and mostly focus on the content. Out…
During the Christmas and New Years break I had time to read a few books. How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast, by Gilly Smith. A great book for both the new podcaster and the experienced producer. There are something in it for everyone. Almost no technology and mostly focus on the content. Out…
If you are using WhatsApp and started the application today you got a message telling you that you need to agree with the new terms and conditions before the 8th of Feb or stop using the application. You can find more information in this Arstechnica Article.
Life happened yesterday so sound quality was too poor so I decided to not publish that episode. This episode was live streamed on twitch. Come join us the next time to see how we do an episode. You can find the channel here. This Monday I did an interview with a remote interview subject. We…
Life happened yesterday so sound quality was too poor so I decided to not publish that episode. This episode was live streamed on twitch. Come join us the next time to see how we do an episode. You can find the channel here. This Monday I did an interview with a remote interview subject. We…
The prediction I made just before New Year became correct more or less the day after I published it. Talk about lucky in the timing. Amazon acquires the podcast producer Wonderly for an alleged $300M and becomes a part of Amazon Music. This will most likely not impact the life for either podcast creators or…
The prediction I made just before New Year became correct more or less the day after I published it. Talk about lucky in the timing. Amazon acquires the podcast producer Wonderly for an alleged $300M and becomes a part of Amazon Music. This will most likely not impact the life for either podcast creators or…
Another episode with predictions for next year. Amazon will take a step into podcasting by extending either Amazon Music or Audible. Spotify will continue their shopping spread – acquire additional companies. In addition to this they will continue signing up additional podcasts to be Spotify exclusive, require either a free or premium account, but some…
Another episode with predictions for next year. Amazon will take a step into podcasting by extending either Amazon Music or Audible. Spotify will continue their shopping spread – acquire additional companies. In addition to this they will continue signing up additional podcasts to be Spotify exclusive, require either a free or premium account, but some…
Doing some predictions for the coming year. I talk about my predictions for Facebook and podcasting during next year.
Merry Christmas everyone! Todays episode was recoded on the Zoom H8 in the car with the stereo microphone. I couldn’t monitor the levels and it was hard to keep the device in a good angle. That is the reason for the poor sound. Todays episode is about podcast hosting and especially Castos podcast hosting. See…
Merry Christmas everyone! Todays episode was recoded on the Zoom H8 in the car with the stereo microphone. I couldn’t monitor the levels and it was hard to keep the device in a good angle. That is the reason for the poor sound. Todays episode is about podcast hosting and especially Castos podcast hosting. See…
Today I talk about the Mastodon social network. You can find instances by going to joinmastodon.org – most have a regional focus or a specific topic. Like mastodon.se for Swedish user or Fosstodon for free and open source software. You can find me as @haagen@mastodon.se (since mastodon.host seems to have died.). I also recommend to…
Today I talk about the Mastodon social network. You can find instances by going to joinmastodon.org – most have a regional focus or a specific topic. Like mastodon.se for Swedish user or Fosstodon for free and open source software. You can find me as @haagen@mastodon.se (since mastodon.host seems to have died.). I also recommend to…
Talking about Adam Curry and No Agenda Show #1303 (~1:40 in) where he talks about the future of the Joe Rogan Experience and being a Spotify exclusive podcast. The thinking is that Spotify won’t be able to keep him on as an exclusive due to advertiser needs but also podcasting experience. Another interesting interview has…
Talking about Adam Curry and No Agenda Show #1303 (~1:40 in) where he talks about the future of the Joe Rogan Experience and being a Spotify exclusive podcast. The thinking is that Spotify won’t be able to keep him on as an exclusive due to advertiser needs but also podcasting experience. Another interesting interview has…
Yesterday the podcast was submitted to Google Podcasts. Super easy and it takes just a few minutes. You can do it through the Podcast Manager. Did my first interview for a podcast yesterday. It went well but as always there are things to learn and change for the next time. It will be released mid/end…
Yesterday the podcast was submitted to Google Podcasts. Super easy and it takes just a few minutes. You can do it through the Podcast Manager. Did my first interview for a podcast yesterday. It went well but as always there are things to learn and change for the next time. It will be released mid/end…
The Martin Uncut podcast has been submitted and approved by Spotify. To submit yours you simply go to podcasters.spotify.com. It took me 6-8hrs to get it approved – way faster than expected. Excited for an interview I’m doing today for the Podcast. My workflow is still broken. Yesterdays file was still in multitrack since I…
The Martin Uncut podcast has been submitted and approved by Spotify. To submit yours you simply go to podcasters.spotify.com. It took me 6-8hrs to get it approved – way faster than expected. Excited for an interview I’m doing today for the Podcast. My workflow is still broken. Yesterdays file was still in multitrack since I…
In todays episode I talk about some difference between the Zoom H8 and the RødeCaster in how it handles multichannel and recorded files. With the H8 you get one file for each channel you record and one file for the mixdown (all channels together). The RødeCaster produces one file with all the channels in. That…
In todays episode I talk about some difference between the Zoom H8 and the RødeCaster in how it handles multichannel and recorded files. With the H8 you get one file for each channel you record and one file for the mixdown (all channels together). The RødeCaster produces one file with all the channels in. That…
The package arrived yesterday – and the content was a new mixer from Røde. I have been looking at this beauty since long before I started to podcast – but have not been able to give myself a good reason to buy it. I found one now and here it is! Picture to come!
The package arrived yesterday – and the content was a new mixer from Røde. I have been looking at this beauty since long before I started to podcast – but have not been able to give myself a good reason to buy it. I found one now and here it is! Picture to come!
I downloaded “The Brain” last week and has now started to build a brain out. It is a pretty cool software. Drawbacks are that the user interface looks dated and the application is a few hundred bucks. But let’s use it for a a week or so and evaluate it. There is some goodies in…
I downloaded “The Brain” last week and has now started to build a brain out. It is a pretty cool software. Drawbacks are that the user interface looks dated and the application is a few hundred bucks. But let’s use it for a a week or so and evaluate it. There is some goodies in…
Yes, episode 4 – not 3 as I say. 😉 Worked a bit with sound absorptions boards – I had a stack of them and mounted a few more of them in the roof. But I ran out of nails. Will probably have to order more of them anyways. The podcast was also approved by…
Yes, episode 4 – not 3 as I say. 😉 Worked a bit with sound absorptions boards – I had a stack of them and mounted a few more of them in the roof. But I ran out of nails. Will probably have to order more of them anyways. The podcast was also approved by…
Short update from yesterdays project developments. I created the cover art for the Martin Uncut podcast. I created it in photoshop following a guide I found on YouTube. I will use it for now but likely do some minor modifications to it. I also worked a bit on this website. I configured the Seriously Simple…
Short update from yesterdays project developments. I created the cover art for the Martin Uncut podcast. I created it in photoshop following a guide I found on YouTube. I will use it for now but likely do some minor modifications to it. I also worked a bit on this website. I configured the Seriously Simple…
Gotten the sound pads to work on the Zoom. And loaded up an intro that I found on ccMixter.org. Song is created by Zapac and is released under creative commons. More information can be found on the Martin Uncut page. Upgrading firmware of Zoom H8. Super simple when you know how to do that.