Montreal-Paris-London

Montreal to London… via Paris! In the effort to save a few £/$/€, it's possible to take a convoluted route between these two points on the map. In this post, join me as I travel from my current home neighbourhood in the East of Montreal to my original home in the suburbs of North London…...

10 New Things I Discovered when Building a Virtual DNS Server

Ah, the traditional bank holiday weekend project. Fix the shed, paint the bedroom or build a virtual DNS server. I was inspired by Brian Christner’s post “How a Single Raspberry Pi made my Home Network Faster”. In his case, he used a physical Raspberry Pi and Docker. I considered the same approach, but in the...

Working from Home

One of my guilty pleasures is looking at pictures of other people’s desk setups. You’d think this would be a niche activity, but you’d also be surprised how many blogs and sites have features like this. In this post, I want to focus on the physical infrastructure of the home working environment: The desk and...

If Wishes Were Jailbreaks

Tradition dictates I need to write about my hopes and wishes for iOS on the eve of WWDC. Tradition dictates I also write this at the eleventh hour, so this year is no different in that regard. But, I wanted to combine my yearly iOS feature wish list with features already available on iOS if...

The Price of Upgrading to Catalina

So, time to upgrade to Catalina… or is it? I usually get excited about the yearly Apple update cycle, but this year has left me cautious. Let’s look at why you might want to hold off on hitting the upgrade button. Safari 13 Extensions Safari 13 is a nice update to the stock web browser....

Shortcuts Collection – Summer 2019

I’m continuing to share the Shortcuts I’ve made over on GitHub, and with iOS 13 on the horizon this is going to be the last batch of iOS 12 Shortcuts, so let’s dig in! As with the last batch, I’m sticking with the following rules to dictate which Shortcuts I share with the rest of...

Come For the Songs; Stay for The Production – An Introduction to Thom Yorke

With his new album Anima released earlier this year, it seems like the right time to do a quick retrospective on the Radiohead frontman’s enigmatic solo career. Yorke’s solo material can be hard to approach, so to that end, I’ve put together a commented and curated compilation of 12 tracks covering his career as a...

Toronto Railway Museum

I dropped by Toronto recently, and since I don’t often head West of Montreal, I’d made myself a small bucket checklist to tick off whilst I was in town. One of those items was to pay a visit to the city’s dedicated railway museum, and I wasn’t disappointed! Facing the CN Tower and the Rogers...

iOS 13 Wishlist

With WWDC approaching, every Apple related blog on the planet is predicting what goodies iOS 13 will bring when it's announced on Monday. Even more are publishing their wish-lists, and as its been a while since I’ve done one of these myself, let me add to the cacophony of hopes and prayers by providing an...

Shortcuts Collection – Spring 2019

As I continue to share my Shortcuts over on GitHub, I thought I’d periodically highlight some of the more useful ones here on my blog. The main two criteria for choosing which Shortcuts to shine a spotlight on are: They’re likely to be useful to others They integrate with built-in apps and functionality without third party...