Did you know that if you currently have recessed lights, you can easily replace them with LED lights in a few minutes? You remove the old housing for the can light and screw in the new led light. It can be done in a couple of minutes. The Sunco retrofit lights will fit a 5 or 6 inch and look great. I decided to go with 3000K warm white which we like for our kitchen. Use the guide below to decide what would work best for your situation. Read More
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DIY Outdoor Wyze Camera
Wyze recently released its outdoor camera that everyone has been anticipating. They look great and are priced affordably for an outdoor battery-powered camera. I went ahead and preordered 1 for $64.78 shipping in August 2020. But this post is not going to be about the battery-powered Wyze camera.
People have been putting the Wyze v2 camera outdoors for years now and they tend to hold up really well, especially if they are in a plastic housing under the eave of a house. I recently installed a Wyze v2 indoor camera outside and so far it has worked great! Read More
Password Management Tips
Many people I know use the same simple password across multiple sites. All it takes is one of the sites to be hacked and all their accounts are now compromised. I recommend going to Have I Been Pwned to check and see if your email has been compromised. Most likely you will be surprised at how many sites have been hacked that you have an account for. Below are some common tips for managing your passwords. Read More
Lazy Git Shortcut
If you use git and are tired of typing git add . then git commit -a -m “your git message” then git push, add an alias function to your bash_profile to do it all in one quick command. The example below works on macOS but I would imagine it would work in Powershell in Windows. Save a few keystrokes with the shortcut!
function gcp() {
git add .
git commit -a -m "$*"
git push
}
Then in your command line type: gcp fixed a bug
