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M1 Max MacBook Pro and External Display: When Productivity Becomes Frustration

M1 Max MacBook Pro and External Display: When Productivity Becomes Frustration

February 20, 2023

Over the past years, I’ve been on a constant quest to “improve my workflow”, a rather crude way for a non-native English speaker to talk about productivity tweaks. In other words, improving my work environment. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, I was travelling frequently and thus my workhorse / travel companion

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Social Media Limbo

Social Media Limbo

December 19, 2022

(Photo by Xander Ashwell on Unsplash) The latest events at Twitter have caused me to reevaluate my presence on social media networks overall. Reducing my footprint isn’t exactly a new thing: I have left Facebook a few years ago, with no regrets. Nevertheless, the change of ownership at Twitter has

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kamshin.com on hiatus

kamshin.com on hiatus

April 14, 2022

Dear readers, although it was never officially announced, those who follow me know that for the past few years, I’ve been conducting the bulk of my online content creation activities through TECHunplugged, a company I co-own. In fact, all of the enterprise IT content is now created exclusively over there.

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Some thoughts on the new MacBook Pro

Some thoughts on the new MacBook Pro

October 19, 2021

If you’ve watched the Apple event, you may have noticed that Apple M1 Silicon is being expanded to include two new chips, the M1 Pro and the M1 Max. Apple has an official press release about it, and no doubt that esteemed industry analysts will soon be sharing their comments

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Opportunities And Challenges With Personal Health Data – Looking at Garmin Data

Opportunities And Challenges With Personal Health Data – Looking at Garmin Data

January 21, 2021

Shower is one of those places where I get a break from everyday’s life distractions and from the digital world as well. Putting my head under a hot stream of water kind of makes it work, and ideas, sometimes crazy, emerge afterwards. After today’s thoughts I recorded a video –

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How The 2020 Pandemic Shaped My Year, And How My Family And I Coped With COVID

How The 2020 Pandemic Shaped My Year, And How My Family And I Coped With COVID

November 30, 2020

I’ve been pretty lucky at avoiding COVID during most of 2020. What at first seemed to be a distant thing, like the SARS epidemic of the 2000’s, turned out later on to become a very real threat. Today, we’re getting a bit personal here on the blog. After all, those

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Is the 16-Inch MacBook Pro Crippled By Thermal Issues?

Is the 16-Inch MacBook Pro Crippled By Thermal Issues?

August 5, 2020

It’s been a while since I blogged on kamshin.com – especially since I’ve decided that all technical / industry news content would move over to TECHunplugged.io for consistency / audience reasons. But enough self-flagellation, and onto this burning topic (no pun intented). Those of you who follow me on Twitter

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Mastering the Art of Data Visualization

Mastering the Art of Data Visualization

November 18, 2019

I am back from Tech Field Day 20, a very rich event both in terms of content presented and in human interactions. During Tech Field Day events, each presenting company shows their product, which includes the interface(s) with whom users will interact. Another aspect of those presentations is how data

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Tech Field Day 20 is right around the corner!

Tech Field Day 20 is right around the corner!

November 8, 2019

Tech Field Day 20 will take place next week from 12 to 15-Nov-19. While it seems like it’s just yet another Tech Field Day, it’s definitely not.At least not for me, and for two reasons. My first Tech Field Day is next week  First reason is that TFD20 will be

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Take Social Media With A Grain Of Salt

Take Social Media With A Grain Of Salt

May 2, 2019

I’d like to share today something a bit different than the usual technical stuff. While at Dell Technologies World, I had a really interesting and meaningful conversation with Konstanze Alex, Head of Influencer Relations at Dell Technologies, who is also behind the fantastic #DellLuminaries community / project. The Impact of

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Firefox on MacOS: insane battery drain, subpar performance and endless frustration

Firefox on MacOS: insane battery drain, subpar performance and endless frustration

July 4, 2018

I recently installed (approx. a month ago) Firefox version 60 (now updated to 61) on MacOS in the hope of further strengthening my « Gexit » (Google Exit). Google is a company I do not trust anymore, for various philosophical, ethical and practical reasons, so stopping using their products is a priority

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Opinion – Online Privacy: You’re In Control

Opinion – Online Privacy: You’re In Control

June 13, 2018

Not a week passes without hearing in the news of a major data breach, a social media service into yet another mess-up, or a major vendor purchasing a popular service. What’s the usual outcome? Outcries of disgust, rants, complaints about privacy invasion/loss of privacy, individuals threatening to leave the service,

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Druva acquires CloudRanger, expands backup capabilities to AWS

Druva acquires CloudRanger, expands backup capabilities to AWS

June 6, 2018

I had a short call yesterday with my friend W. Curtis Preston, a Tech Field Day alumn turned Chief Technical Architect at Druva, to get an update about their latest whereabouts. It turns out that yesterday Druva unveiled on 5-Jun-18 the acquisition of Ireland-based company CloudRanger, a data solution protection

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Liqid – a new approach at composable infrastructure

Liqid – a new approach at composable infrastructure

March 8, 2018

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to be briefed by the folks at Liqid, a Colorado-based startup. Their website claims that “The future is on-demand composable infrastructure”. There are now several companies claiming that they operate in this space, so we set to understand what is Liqid vision

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Uila App-Centric Monitoring: Deep Packet Inspection meets beautiful UI

Uila App-Centric Monitoring: Deep Packet Inspection meets beautiful UI

January 8, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to attend a technology briefing from Uila, a company that works in the IT Monitoring space. This is a briefing I took up with great interest since colleagues and friends in the community had been talking (and writing) highly of them after they had presented

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