David Cain https://www.jimmiedave.com David Cain's site, sporadically updated with photos, ramblings and bits of portfolio. Sat, 06 Jan 2024 13:37:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 HD Homerun Dual ATSC Tuner: It’s the power supply. https://www.jimmiedave.com/2024/01/hd-homerun-dual-atsc-tuner-its-the-power-supply/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hd-homerun-dual-atsc-tuner-its-the-power-supply https://www.jimmiedave.com/2024/01/hd-homerun-dual-atsc-tuner-its-the-power-supply/#respond Sat, 06 Jan 2024 02:04:49 +0000 https://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=4943 HD Homerun Dual ATSC Network Tuner

I’m gonna try and save you some time with the HD Homerun Dual ATSC Tuner: It’s the power supply. I have a “venerable” HD Homerun Dual ATSC Network tv tuner. They’re reputed to be tanks. My MythTV system could no longer access the tuners, first croaking on recordings, then eventually refusing to record at all. […]

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Solved: 2019 Intel i7 MacBook Pro 16 throttling, overheating https://www.jimmiedave.com/2022/05/solved-2019-intel-i7-macbook-pro-16-throttling-overheating/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solved-2019-intel-i7-macbook-pro-16-throttling-overheating https://www.jimmiedave.com/2022/05/solved-2019-intel-i7-macbook-pro-16-throttling-overheating/#respond Sun, 22 May 2022 03:12:01 +0000 https://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=4819 Dirty/Clean MacBook Pro Fan

My 2019 Intel i7 MacBook Pro was overheating and throttling on simple tasks. Monitoring a webcam, running the Music (nee iTunes) visualizer made the machine unusable. Here’s how I fixed it. Processor temp wasn’t much above 60°C, but the fans were jacked, processors were all going nuts. Clearly CPU throttling was stealing cycles. I found […]

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Making a Paint Booth with PVC Pipe and Drop Cloth https://www.jimmiedave.com/2018/12/making-a-paint-booth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-a-paint-booth https://www.jimmiedave.com/2018/12/making-a-paint-booth/#respond Sun, 30 Dec 2018 03:11:49 +0000 http://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=4703 When winter comes, it’s hard to get a good day to apply paint to rockets and other crafts. So I move my painting inside with a cheap paint booth. First thing I must stress: Be Safe. You have to ventilate your painting area actively, and ensure you’re not painting near ignition sources like furnace pilot […]

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Does your UX Designer know why 5,000 Intranet pages have the same title? https://www.jimmiedave.com/2018/02/does-your-ux-designer-know-why/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=does-your-ux-designer-know-why https://www.jimmiedave.com/2018/02/does-your-ux-designer-know-why/#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:45:54 +0000 http://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=4595 Mock-up of a search result page where all the results have the same title.

A few years ago, I ran into a situation while working in an enterprise. The Intranet team announced with great fanfare that they’d released a brand new Intranet redesign, with a pretty new look and feel. Sure enough, the Intranet looked shiny-new. However, once a user searched for anything, nearly all the results (all the […]

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Born for Love – David Baerwald (chords) https://www.jimmiedave.com/2018/01/born-for-love-baerwald-chords/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=born-for-love-baerwald-chords https://www.jimmiedave.com/2018/01/born-for-love-baerwald-chords/#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:46:23 +0000 http://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=4613 Guitarist Brady Cohan and singer, songwriter and guitarist David Baerwald.

I’ve been looking for chords or tab to David Baerwald‘s beautiful song “Born for Love” for a year or more. I fooled around with it on the guitar, and found a few of the chords used, but couldn’t make a good arrangement to play it. Yesterday I found a video of David Baerwald playing Born […]

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First 24 hours with a Chromebook – Things I can’t do. https://www.jimmiedave.com/2017/03/first-24-hours-with-a-chromebook-things-i-cant-do/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-24-hours-with-a-chromebook-things-i-cant-do https://www.jimmiedave.com/2017/03/first-24-hours-with-a-chromebook-things-i-cant-do/#respond Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:53:56 +0000 http://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=4529 Google's Chrome logo on the lid of an Acer 11" Chromebook.

I traveled out of the US recently, and thought I’d try out a Chromebook. I liked the idea that I could wipe it back to bare metal before crossing a border checkpoint. This is not a list of stuff wrong with it that I thought up, but instead, a list of things I either wanted […]

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Bad UX is Killing Usability. Everywhere. https://www.jimmiedave.com/2016/02/ux-designers-are-destroying-usability-everywhere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ux-designers-are-destroying-usability-everywhere https://www.jimmiedave.com/2016/02/ux-designers-are-destroying-usability-everywhere/#respond Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:46:30 +0000 http://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=2550 UX feeding usability through the buzzsaw. Kinda bloody.

Several years ago, I started seeing troubling pieces come out suggesting that we Move Beyond Jakob Nielsen (I’m paraphrasing here). The implication: that we’d allowed designing for usability to create a failure of imagination. We’d impoverished web design and mobile in the service of a geeky goal we could now forget about now because, after […]

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Strange case of the Behringer PP400 MicroPHONO https://www.jimmiedave.com/2015/03/strange-case-of-the-behringer-pp400-microphono/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=strange-case-of-the-behringer-pp400-microphono https://www.jimmiedave.com/2015/03/strange-case-of-the-behringer-pp400-microphono/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2015 23:43:06 +0000 http://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=2386

I’ve recently started turning my pretty-decent and long-missed LP collection into MP3 and FLAC files. Bring on the Tangerine Dream, Berlin-era Bowie and UK! I’d bought a Behringer PP400 MicroPHONO RIAA Phono Preamp to get the signal to a level where my Focusrite Sapphire 14 recording interface would get a good capture. Unfortunately, when I […]

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Wither Twitter. (Twither?) https://www.jimmiedave.com/2015/01/wither-twitter-twither/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wither-twitter-twither https://www.jimmiedave.com/2015/01/wither-twitter-twither/#respond Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:15:44 +0000 http://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=2371

A longish piece. The tl;dr: Unusually, I’ve spent almost no time on Twitter for months, and can’t really say when or if I’ll get back in. Read on for why. At UX Week 2008, I discovered Twitter. Something I’d barely heard about at the time, but never tried. Those around me were holding a rich […]

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Don’t Spook the Cattle! https://www.jimmiedave.com/2014/08/dont-spook-the-cattle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-spook-the-cattle https://www.jimmiedave.com/2014/08/dont-spook-the-cattle/#respond Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:27:20 +0000 http://www.jimmiedave.com/?p=731 Fuzzy picture of guy with hands up as if to say STOP!!!

All my life, people have told me I’m smart. And like other smart people, I have a problem: I imagine that others want to know as much about stuff as I do. And this threatens to spill out in my business writing, and that of the smart people I’m lucky to work with. Now I […]

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