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  • AppleScript Crash notifier

    Say you’re on OSX and working with some C++ software that might crash when bugs are found… and say you don’t want to tail or search the voluminous logs just to know whether there’s crashes to investigate. The crashes will show up in the Console application, but it destroys your performance to leave it open.

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  • Robocop riding a unicorn

    Where’s the Product in AI?

    AI & ML products are harder than they look AI tech is obviously overhyped, and conflating with ideas from science fiction and religion. I prefer using terms like Machine Intelligence and Cognitive Computing, just to avoid the noise. But if we strip away the most unrealistic stuff, there’s some interesting paths forward. The biggest problem

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  • galaxy brain meme, applied to types of splunk apps

    Splunk Apps and Add-ons

    Note, this is old stuff now… but legacy lives on even when new solutions become available. What are Splunk Apps and Add-ons? What’s the difference? If you’re still confused… it’s not just you. The confusion roots back to fundamental disagreements on approach that are encoded into every product the company has ever shipped, so it’s

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  • Windex: Find Splunk apps that have index time operations

    If a Splunk app has index-time operations, it has to be installed on the first heavy forwarder or indexer to perform those operations on the data that’s coming in. If it doesn’t have those operations, then it only needs to be installed on the search head to perform its search time operations on the data

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  • Purge old reminders

    Apple reminders are great! Easy to create, easy to check across multiple devices, easy to share with family or co-workers, easy to close when you’ve done the task. Until eventually you’ve got hundreds of completed reminders per list… Why does everyone’s phone suddenly say we need hundreds of packages of tortillas? Why am I being

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