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Burke Holland

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Professional quality audio with the Blue Yeti, GarageBand and Screenflow

March 18, 2020

One of the best things you can do to improve the quality of your screencasts, is improve the quality of your audio. I’m assuming that unless your name is “Dr. Dre”, you probably do not have a professional sound studio in your basement full of high-end equipment and expensive software....

Trimming expenses on The Urlist with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier

March 17, 2020

Summary: We migrated theurlist.com to the new Cosmos DB Free Tier and shaved ~35$ per month off of our Azure bill. Cosmos DB Free Tier gives you 400 RU/s for free every month. This should be more than enough for most small projects. Get Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier theurlist.com...

Cosmos CRUD

February 02, 2020

Cosmos DB JavaScript SDK is clean - I like it. But I feel like I always end up forgetting how to CRUD. For the uninitiated in database street-slang, CRUD means Create, Read, Update And Delete. Feel free to use that if you find yourself in a turf war or dance-off....

How to create a Reminder on Apple Watch without creating a Reminder

January 29, 2020

I have an Apple Watch (not cellular), and I love it. Not just because it lets everyone know that I’m better than them, but also for it’s ability to sync and store all of my audio to be used offline. I can download my music (including Apple Music), podcasts and...

The 3 Laws of Serverless

January 13, 2020

A wise man once said this about Serverless… So wise! So profound. So obnoxiously vain to use your own quote. “Serverless”, is a buzzword. We can’t seem to agree on what it actaully means, so it ends up meaning nothing at all. Much like “cloud” or “dynamic” or “synergy”. You...

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