Summitt Dweller's Blog

An old fart's memory dump: Lots of code, some life experiences, and a little humor. No politics!

Adding ‘Remote Atom’ to My DigitalOcean Server

 2020-03-15

Last evening and early this morning I completed the addition of a new (to me) package to Atom on my Mac Mini. The package is Remote Atom   and I found the configuration to be a little confusing, but in the end it was worth the work. Use The addition and configuration of this package allows me to open an SSH terminal/session from my Mac Mini to my summitt-dweller-DO-docker droplet and, with Atom open locally on my Mac I can issue a command like

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My Photos Workflow

 2019-07-04

I recently returned from vacation in Norway with a few hundred photos and a handful of videos, taken mostly using my iPhone 8. I find that the Apple Photos app does a pretty nice job of cataloging photos and videos into Moments. Each Moment includes all the images taken in a single day, and sometimes in a particular location, if photos are taken on the same day, but a great distance apart.

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Travel...MSP to CDG to OSL to KKN

Travel…MSP to CDG to OSL to KKN

 2019-06-12

This was a very long day in the air, and then we discovered the ‘midnight sun’! This post is really part of my Norway photo blog   which you can find elsewhere on this site. Note that the photos here are in reverse-chronological order with the exception of one “lead” post that lays out our itinerary. So, read on… I drove the 5 of us, plus luggage, in our mini-van to Minneapolis for our departure, and we left home early just in case there were surprises.

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