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Non Standard iOS Navigation
In my years of being an iOS developer and user, I've seen a lot of apps that try to come up with their own ways of doing navigation that don't follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Over this time, Apple has changed their guidelines, but usually don't adopt some of the concepts that apps have inflicted on us.
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Guest Network with EdgeRouter Lite and UniFi Access Points
Last year, I wrote about setting up a guest network with the EdgeRouter Lite. The post was focused on using an Apple Time Capsule as the wireless access point. Since then I've switched away from the Time Capsule and am now using Ubiquiti UniFi APs, so parts of the post are no longer relevant to me and a few people have asked me how to do this with the EdgeRouter Lite and the UniFi APs.
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Ineffective Stop Signs
Soon after we moved into our house (about two and a half years ago), the city installed stop signs at the end of our street. This seemed like a great idea as traffic would speed down the hill perpendicular to our street and make it dangerous to get out of our street.
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Conserving Water with Rain Barrels
A few months ago, my wife saw that the city and water district were offering rebates on rain barrels. The rebates were significant enough to pay the entire cost of the barrels, so I decided to purchase 2 of them at Home Depot. Installig the barrels was easy as all I had to do was make Some slight modifications to my downspouts, attach an overflow hose and replace the spigot with a brass one as the cheap plastic one that came with the barrel would break easily.