Here are some random musings from my morning.I like the idea of being spontaneous more than the practice of spontaneity itself.Analysis ParalysisOverthinking is in my blood. Perhaps due to the way I was raised. Perhaps an inescapable trait programmed in my DNA. I've come to accept it. This…
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Michael Hwang
Manually trigger builds on AWS Amplify
ProblemCannot trigger AWS Amplify to re-build without pushing a new commit.We've been using AWS Amplify for some deployments. What's been annoying is that the build process gets triggered automatically based on diff'ing the latest commit with previous commits.This gets pretty annoying when you want to do things like…
VST plugins on OS X Catalina - "can't be opened because its integrity cannot be verified"
If you've run into a problem where you have some audio plug-ins that are not working on Catalina after copying them over to the respective folder (e.g. vst/, vst3/, component/, etc), then you can run the following commands in the terminal to allow your DAW to read the plug-in.…
AWS EC2 t2.micro out of space
So I noticed that my blog was down earlier today. My blog is a self-hosted Ghost instance on an AWS EC2 server. After connecting via SSH onto the server, I noticed that when trying to do bash completion or even editing a file using vim, I was getting the following…
[Hackintosh] Upgrade to Mojave (10.14) from High Sierra (10.13)
This is a documentation of the steps I'm taking in order to upgrade my Hackintosh from High Sierra to Mojave. I'll be following this guide:https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/update-directly-to-macos-mojave.260654/First I opened my Clover Configurator. It always takes me a few minutes to remember exactly what I'm…
[Hackintosh] Thunderbolt Activation
Back with another Hackintosh post. Haven't been here since January! Dayam.I recently upgraded my audio interface from a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 to an Apollo Twin Duo MKII Thunderbolt. Quite the upgrade - I'm super happy with it so far. I track a lot of vocals and guitar (both electric…