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• Traveling with a Mac Book

  May 25, 2024 · 1 min read

  I recently returned from a trip to Europe (GMT+2) to the West Coast (PT). Upon returning I noticed that none of my Two-factor (MFA) codes were accepted by either Cloudflare or AWS. I had not restarted my MacBook since leaving Europe. It seems to me that the internal clock which is used to calculate the current MFA code is not reset when switching time zones, thus producing invalid codes. A restart of the computer fixed this issue. Update: I also noticed that this happens sometimes when the laptop is closed (asleep) for some period of time. I found this little command that synchronizes the time.

  sudo sntp -sS time.apple.com

• Silicon Valley Photos

  Jan 31, 2024 · 1 min read

  Marcus Kazmierczak has great photos of the Silicon Valley on his homepage. Definitely worth checking them out.

• 2023 Rain

  Dec 19, 2023 · 1 min read

  Rain started in the Bay Area yesterday.

• Ruby Testing Server Part Two

  Aug 13, 2023 · 1 min read

  Following from my post from 2022 about testing Rails application with a static server, I wanted to mock an API during a test. The reason for this is that I like to keep the external dependencies to a minimum.

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• July 4 2023

  Jul 4, 2023 · 1 min read

  Happy 4th of July from San Francisco!

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