🧹 Format USB drive from macOS command line

If you are ever needing to format a USB thumbdrive on macOS from the command line, this will get you going. The first command will show you the drives so you can figure out which one is the USB. You will want to swap out DRIVENAME for what you want to name the USB drive.

🚪Finally painted the trim

The weather finally started to make a change for the best, so I could get out and paint the trim around the new door. Sadly I didn’t get a picture with out the tape… ohh well you can get the idea. You can check out the before and after with the slider below.

☕ Still no caffeine, a follow-up.

I up and stopped drinking caffeine cold turkey on January 15th. It was not so much out of health concerns but more to see if I could do it. As mentioned, I have been upping my caffeine consumption into astronomical proportions and needed to reel it back in. It has now been over a month, …
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💻 Mounting Samba share on Ubuntu

I’m mainly noting this here for myself, but perhaps someone else will find this information handy. Install package cifs-utils Create folder to mount the share into Create a file with user credentials in your home directory. Edit the smbcredentials file Edit /etc/fstab Add the following line (edit where necessary) You can now mount the samba …
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