blog.awill.me

blog.awill.me

10 Jan 2018

Comcast

As I’ve lived at my new house for 12 months, you can guess that my Comcast XFinity bill increased. It increased by $20, and yet, the bill …
14 Sep 2017

My Tennis Racquet History

Over the last 20+ years I’ve played with many different tennis racquets. As a child I remember 2 different junior Wilson aluminium racquets …
14 Sep 2017

Pixel XL

Starting with the Nexus 4, I’ve owned every single Nexus phone. They were cheap, high spec devices with few compromises (the most complained …
21 Jul 2017

AWS Lambda

After two and a half years running the back end storage data plane of Amazon S3, I’ve decided to join the Amazon Lambda team. I’m really …
01 Apr 2017

Denon AVR-X2300W

Two months ago I bought a 4K TV. The problem was, I was still using a 1080p Denon Receiver, so I was still only able to watch TV at 1080p. I …
22 Feb 2017

Vizio M65-D0

I’ve been rocking a cheap Vizio E-series 1080p TV since Black Friday 2012. I now have a 4K HDR capable nvidia Shield, and I’ve been itching …
11 Feb 2017

gnome-mpv

I’ve used VLC for more than 15 years. Even before I switched to Linux, I used VLC. It can play anything! However, they haven’t been making …
10 Feb 2017

Wiring the house with cat6

Last week we moved in to our new house. I decided I wanted cat6 ethernet between my office - where the comcast modem (ARRIS SB6183) and my …