Install R 100% Homebrew Edition With OpenBlas & OpenMP — My Version
Update Friday, 10th of May 2018: If you want to install R with all the capabilities you need to read this post too, and perhaps this one too.
iTerm2 + Oh My Zsh + Powerlevel9k + Monaco Nerd Complete Font
In general, I don’t use my Mac’s Terminal app. Instead, I use iTem2 with a special configuration, that doesn’t use Bash, but Oh My Zsh as a shell, that is a framework to manage Zsh configuration as your shell. This framework allows you to install plugins or configure your prompt, among other cool things. I’ve also configured iTerm2 to work with ...
Happy New Year 12018 🎉
I want to wish you all a
Disconnecting the dGPU in a late 2011 MacBook Pro —third way
Update 2017.12.12-14.20 EET: whether or not I use the AMDGPUWakeHandler and whether I sleep or hibernate I can’t wake up of the hibernation/sleep. Depending on if I have AMDGPUWakeHandler on or off I get different outputs, but none of those end in a successful wakeup.
Disconnecting the dGPU in a late 2011 MacBook Pro —another way
As I’ve told in the previous post, the discrete graphic car of my MacBook Pro late 2011 is faulty and can be trusted any more. So I decided to disconnect it.
My MacBook Pro late 2011’s discrete graphics card said “ciao” 👋🏻 —again
Last Sunday wasn’t really a pleasant day. On Saturday late night, or rather around Sunday 00.30 am, my MacBook Pro late 2011’s discrete graphic card begin to fail to in the end not being able to boot it properly. The computer was working just fine, it wasn’t even using the discrete card, connected to the external screen as I’ve been doing lately...
First Heavy Snowfall
Last Sunday we had the first heavy snowfall of this winter season in Joensuu. As you can see in the photos in flickr gallery below, the landscape was really wonderful… quite like a postcard. Olalla and I decided to go outside after our late brunch and take a walk over the fresh snow to shoot some photos. It was a quite nice walk, also rather col...
Homebrew
In some of my previous post [e.g. 1, 2, 3 or 4 ] I’ve been using Homebrew to install some pieces of software in my Mac using the terminal, or shell. But, perhaps you’ve been wondering what is exactly Homebrew? It defines itself as “the missing package manager for macOS”. Yet… what is a package manager? A package manager is a small piece of softw...
About baking stones
As I promised, here is a small note about my experience using baking stones and some things I think you should take into account if you decide to use one.
Pizza recipe
Since it’s Sunday let’s have some pizza for dinner. Here is the pizza recipe I usually make at home, and what I would call our standard pizza. It’s really rare that we don’t bake one once per week or at least two weeks.