General

Favourite Books of 2019

Ah, one of those dreaded “best of” posts. As you can see from my Books page, I managed to read/listen to 71 books this year. Granted, several of them were short stories or novellas, but still, a new record for me! Given this new PR, I thought I would post my 3 favourite books from

Mac OS X

Resize a sparsebundle Disk Image in Terminal

I was trying to resize a sparsebundle disk image using Disk Utility and kept getting the error that the image resize had failed. The selected disk image could not be resized. Terminal to the rescue. The following command resized my disk image without any issues: hdiutil resize -size XXXg /pathTo/diskimage.dmg Change XXX to the size

Sports

NBA 2019 Bracket Challenge

I only picked one upset, hmm, based on last night’s NHL games, maybe I should rethink that. Regardless, 3-peat for the Warriors!

Science

EHT Images the M87 Black Hole

Today is a big day for science! First ever image of a black hole! https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_EHT

Sports

NHL 2019 Playoff Bracket

While my heart is with the Leafs, I think it’s going to be difficult for anyone to beat Tampa this year. I’d love to see the NHL go (back) to the NBA style playoff structure, where 1 plays 8 but until that time (at least 2 more years), some of the best playoff hockey will

Programming

100 Days of Swift

Paul Hudson (@twostraws) is hosting a 100 Days of Swift in which he provides short videos, quizzes and assignments to walk you through an introduction to Swift. He actually started some time ago, I think on Feb 1, 2019, but I’m just getting started now and have completed Day 4! In Day 1, we covered

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