Author: cysix

This is a story of truly cool engineering and real men doing real work who don’t stop to pout about getting a little boo boo. It’s amazing that Letourneau isn’t better known.

After considerable research, I took the plunge and shelled out $500 for what should be considered the next generation of action cameras: Insta360 One X2. So what’s so revolutionary you ask? It is a 360 degree action camera that is water resistant (30′), has a long battery life, and is both rugged and compact. Other […]

If you are a techie, you’re probably aware of or have read one or more Robert Paterson books where the central theme revolves around tech gone bad. As we evolve robots and AI, we are guaranteed to experience a fair share thereof. I am not sure we’ll see an AI driven killer robot that can […]

Our organization recently spent close to $2M tearing out circa 90’s cubes and installing a fairly state of the art collaboration center. About a month ago we implemented a full return to office policy. My expectations were that after maybe a week or so we would be back in full swing and enjoying the new […]

I may have posted about this previously, but I just spent the last half hour in total frustration trying to correctly enter a complex password on my iPhone. The Smugmug website requires at least 12 digits and it must be complex with upper and lower case, numbers, and punctuation. And, this is the kicker… it […]

With two laptops on my desktop and all the associated peripherals, coffee mug, notepads, speakers, etc. space is at a premium. I use to have two full size Logitech cordless keyboards, but that left little room between them to manipulate the mouse belonging to the left-hand system. So I decide to go with a more […]

After much investigation, there are really only two viable solutions for embedding rich content into WordPress posts. Photos from popular sites like Flickr and Google Photos are covered fine by the built in Embed widget. My preferred media portfolio site, Smugmug, is also supported with out-of-the-box WordPress, although if you have a custom domain like […]

The WordPress blogs I maintain are hosted through Docker containers running in the cloud on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (iIaas). While this method of hosting a blog has many benefits like the ability to use your own domain names (e.g. tech.bitrox.io) and outstanding availability, it does come with some downsides. The primary downside for me is simply the […]

One of the quirks and honestly massive irritations about using Windows vs. Linux is its throwback to the original Microsoft DOS in that all paths depend on drive letters vs. simple paths. In looking to make Launchbox fully portable, I installed it within Dropbox. However, on my various Windows systems, the Dropbox folder resides on […]

The common zip tie is probably…. almost certainly, on of the simplest examples of technology I will ever post about on this channel, but honestly next to duct tape and plumbing it’s one of the best.