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Google Wifi running OpenWRTFebruary 01, 20251 min read I have a pile of first generation Google Wifi units that I’m upgrading from to the latest Nest Wifi Pro that has WiFi 6e support. I want to reuse the older network devices for a secondary network but want greater control over them. read more
MacOS Outlook Calendar Copy EventsJanuary 30, 20251 min read The Copy/Paste of an Event in the Outlook Calendar is no longer offered and cut off without much notice. I can confirm this in Outlook on the Mac as of 4Q-2024. This appears to also impact Windows users but they have a registry workaround to re-enable it. This is not a bug but functionality that was intentionally removed by Microsoft for reasons mentioned in their post below. Outlook blocks copying meetings with “Copying meetings is not supported.” This change drove me insane as I historically used calendar events to track my work and export it for hour accounting against projects. Using Tempo with Jira integration made this even easier. Before this change, I would just copy some work event from earlier and move it to a new time that had my project code and description of the project. It was a massively convenient piece of my workflow. So, deep breath, I finally found another method to make copies of Events that was not obvious. read more
Building a Jekyll GDPR Plugin: From Custom Implementation to Community SolutionJanuary 18, 202513 min read Planning and developing a Jekyll plugin for GDPR compliance - turning a successful custom implementation into a reusable community solution. read more
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