I recently developed some kind of addiction to buy nice kitchen knives. Especially chef knives are my favorite. Below are some images of my first real knife set. About 15 years ago I bought the Chroma Cutlery type 301 series. Back in the days these knives were all over television. About any chef that had a …
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macOS Catalina move caches and logs to RAMdisk
In a previous post I wrote about how I monitor the writes to several SSD’s.Second post in this series is about macOS Catalina, how to use a RAM disk to store caches and logs so you can avoid unnecessary disk writes. Caches are used to speed up applications. For example a browser caches images, Javascript …
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SSD smartctl usage
smartctl is a command line tool to read S.M.A.R.T. data from hard-drives and SSD’s. I’ve been using it for several months now to monitor the writes on several SSD’s. Everyone knows by now that SSD’s have a limited lifetime. Each cell can only be written X times. X is mainly depending on the make and …
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Apple iMac 27″ 2020
The new iMac 27″ 2020 has arrived and in use since several days. Not that my previous iMac was broken, slow or anything. Just wanted something new, something bigger, something faster. So I went for the i9-10910 processor. That’s a Intel i9 10th generation 10 core with a baseclock of 3,6Ghz and Turboboost to 5Ghz, …
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iPhone SE 2016 vs SE 2020 pixel density
Last week I received a new iPhone SE 2020 from work. Maybe I’ll write later a more in depth review of it. For now, just 2 images about the display. Because that the pixel density is the same for both at 326 ppi the pixel size is exactly the same. There are differences tough, on …
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Mei 2020
Dat de afgelopen weken, tijdens de COVID-19 lockdown, enorm veel zon geschenen heeft zal voor iedereen wel duidelijk zijn. Bovenstaande grafiek toont duidelijk dat afgelopen mei maand echt uitzonderlijk zonnig was. Het vorige record voor een mei maand werd met 11% verpulverd. Het werd zelfs de zonnigste maand sinds de installatie van de zonnepanelen 11 …
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Garmin fēnix 6X Pro Solar
After a failed kickstarter project for the Powerwatch 2 I decided to buy myself this nice watch. It’s the top model from Garmin so of course it performs as expected. There’re plenty of watchfaces available, widgets, whatever you want. Battery life is one of the main reasons I chose this one. With lots of notifications, …
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V-Moda Crossfade M-100 Shadow
I’ve been using this headphone for about two years now and I still absolutely love it. It sits very comfortable, I can wear it for hours and hours without issues. The sound quality is superb, simply superb. Just the other day I did a comparison against my sons Beats Studio 3 and I definitely prefer …
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Google Maps shows speed limit in Belgium
Since March 11th Google shows the speed limit in Belgium. A good and nice feature, if the indication is correct of course. And that’s most of the time not the case. Roads that are changed 3 years ago with the general speed limit change from 90 km/h to 70 km/h are still marked as 90 …
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Nanobag 3.0 – The ultimate reusable shopping bag
A while ago, in August 2019 to be precise, I contributed to one of my first Indiegogo projects. Finally, after a long wait the items are delivered. The bags are exactly as described and promised. They’re very light at 20 gr each, fit in a very small pocket bag and are extremely strong. TipTop things …
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Synology btrfs take snapshot only when needed
Earlier this week I bought a spare 4TB drive. Reason for this was to copy the data from my Synology DS1513+ that isn’t backed up in the cloud so I could convert the 8 year old ext4 volume to btrfs. Now that it’s done and everything is restored I had a look at the snapshot …
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Tiësto
Een hele tijd terug postte ik één van onze eerste playlists. Uiteraard moet daar ooit eens een vervolg op komen. Bij deze een link naar onze Tiësto playlist. Deze is ondertussen enorm gegroeid en bevat op moment van schrijven 1182 nummers goed voor dik 120 uur pure Tiësto fun. Tiësto is ondertussen toch wel al …
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IFTTT Applet skipped, Unable to make web request: Error: ETIMEDOUT
I’ve been using IFTTT for quite a while now. Until now I only used it to store the data of the Withings body scale in a MySQL database. Now that’s gonna change since Bosch released their IFTTT integration for the Easycontrol CT200 room thermostat. Of course that has to get integrated into Domoticz and Pass2PHP …
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Centralized Fail2ban database
Centralized fail2ban database I like fail2ban a lot. It blocks intrusions in realtime based on the jails you configure. The jails monitor logfiles for certain words. I’m not going to explain that here, there’s enough on the net about fail2ban. The one problem I had with fail2ban is that it’s has a local database. I …
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Ford Mondeo 2019 Clipper HEV Hybrid Platinum White
Dik 4 jaar na de vorige Ford Mondeo werd het hoog tijd voor een nieuwe wagen. Blijkbaar zijn de lease tarieven, met name dan de full operational lease, voor dieselwagens ferm gestegen, dus werd opnieuw gekozen voor een hybride. In het verleden reed ik er al een, nl een Lexus CT200h. Kans genoeg om een …
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