Staff web platform engineer. One app, several products at Apple Business. I work with people supporting American manufacturing and business growth.
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MariaDB Sandbox Mode
Today I ran into a problem I’ve never seen before when moving MariaDB databases between systems. Quickly searching on Perplexity revealed the problem. There was a dump file compatibility change in MariaDB which introduces a new directive on the first line of a dump file to disable the execution of shell commands: There are several… More →
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Berkeley Mono 2.0 ↗︎
U.S. Graphics released Berkeley Mono 2.0. You should use it.

Here’s Berkeley Mono v2 Condensed on my personal computer. It’s very nice.

Pairs nicely with Ghostty and Fastfetch.
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And on another person’s computer:
Glyphs and FontLabRasmus — the creator of Inter — gave advice on tools for creating fonts.
Beautiful Grafana & Sentry
Observability of US Graphics infrastructure is beautiful.
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Ghostty ↗︎
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Here’s my configuration. The quick terminal is very satisfying.
font-family = TX-02 keybind = global:cmd+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal theme = xcodedarkhc window-colorspace = display-p3Note: I don’t use dark and light theme modes because of a visual bug when opening splits and tabs when specifying them.
Combined with Berkeley Mono v2, next year is sharing up to become the year of the terminal.
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- Good News Plan, very similar to the M’Cheyne Plan by Scottish preacher Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813-1843)
- The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt
Using CrossPoint Reader on an Xteink X3.
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Starting at Apple
I will help small businesses succeed by building Apple Business Essentials — a product which brings together device management, 24/7 Apple support, and iCloud storage into flexible subscription plans. More →
