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Jeff MacKinnon
I, Jeff MacKinnon, have many interests and wear many hats. I'm a generalist at a lot of things and an expert at a few. I focus a lot of my time on power systems, reducing carbon emissions, electrifying everything, cooking, taking pictures and keeping the internet open and free.
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I always try to keep my camera close, even when I'm home. If not, I would not of seen a dragon fly in the back yard. I'm still not great at macro photography, and I forgot to turn on focus stacking, so these are the only two pictures...
There was a moment in recent history that I was opitimistic that business and start-ups were going to focus more on why and what they were doing, rather than chasing the next bubble. That was when you couldn't get away from Simon Sinek...
You heard it here first folks, I'm predicting that Ernesto will impact Nova Scotia in 7-10 days. Immich reminded me of hurricane Ernesto, which missed us last year. My spidey senses start to trigger if I see a hurricane that is tracking...
To cap off the long weekend we went for a drive. There were many things that we had to get finished around the house, so there was no planning made for the weekend. Once we finished up the important things, I packed the kids into the car...
I went with CO on a short adventure this morning to visit the puffins on Pearl Island. They are typically around until early-mid August so its getting a little late. This was the first time with a much smaller and quieter boat, so we...
The weather is getting better, and everything is at another turning point. Canada has a new government, maybe its going to be stable. The CPC party has gone full cult, with their unelected leader living in government housing and refusing...
Last week was exhausting. First there was the Canadian Election where the Liberal's won the most seats and get the first opportunity to form another government with Mark Carney as PM. While I was hoping for a majority of seats for the...
One of the best gardening things is to have crocus bulbs in your lawn. They come up when the snow is thinning, and in years like this, they are out while we have a couple late snow storms. They are great, and just the colour that we need...
Something that I find a little annoying is having to manually post things to different social media. I like to post JUST to my site here and then syndicate to socials, mostly just mastodon, but I would like to figure it out for other...
The sunflowers and bees are just around the corner
This is the content of my super blog post.
First off, may I say this is dumb. This has been an issue for at least 4 years in the Linux community and still, to this day, the solution is to fix it manually. To start, my install uses NetworkManager which has a rudimentary GUI, and...
I have started working on a little personal project I like to call, computing like its 1999. Part of this is moving a lot of the things that I do from a browser to a local app, and when possible to a TUI/CLI interface to further reduce...
I read a post on mastodon sometime in the last couple weeks, I can't find it again but it was from someone that re-installed Linux on their main machine for the first time in 10 or more years. They said it felt like, and I'm...
I finally ran out of daily planned pages in my notebook from the last print that I did. I made the template using AutoCAD because it was the tool that I had on my computer that I knew how to use at the time. This time however, I decided...