Logical Disconnect · Notes https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/ Logical Disconnect · Notes en Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Note, 21 September 2026 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/unifi-dns-profile-reset/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/unifi-dns-profile-reset/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 dns home-network The UniFi controller update reset my DNS filtering profile to “default” without a word. Twenty minutes of very confident debugging later: it was the router, and the router had told nobody.

]]> Note, 11 September 2026 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/switch-cable-mislabelled-good/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/switch-cable-mislabelled-good/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Spent twenty minutes convinced a switch port was dead. It was the cable, which I had personally labelled “good” in 2021. Relabelled. Trust nothing you wrote on tape five years ago.

]]> Note, 30 August 2026 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/airport-captive-portal/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/airport-captive-portal/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 dns Airport wi-fi that works for everything except one app is almost always a captive portal that has expired quietly in the background. Load any plain HTTP page and it will admit it.

]]> Note, 18 August 2026 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/multimeter-continuity-beeper/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/multimeter-continuity-beeper/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 A multimeter with a continuity beeper is worth three without one. You can keep your eyes on the probes instead of the display, and that is the entire job.

]]> Note, 4 August 2026 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/always-the-power-supply/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/always-the-power-supply/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Every time I have said “it can’t be the power supply” out loud, it has been the power supply. I have started saying it deliberately now, as a diagnostic.

]]> Note, 30 July 2026 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/write-the-runbook-while-broken/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/notes/2026/write-the-runbook-while-broken/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Writing the runbook while the thing is still broken produces a much better runbook than writing it afterwards, when you have already forgotten which step was the confusing one.

]]> Reflection on beginnings https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2013-04-reflection-on-beginnings/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2013-04-reflection-on-beginnings/ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400 busy productivity I enjoyed Michael Lopp's article An Introduction to You, specifically this part:

We are in an incredible hurry building important things and have no time for nuance. We're impatient. We're busy. We want everything to move faster, so we make huge, comforting assumptions and slap easy to understand labels on complex concepts.

Though I've been thinking little about the idea of oversimplifying and therefore over or under estimating the contribution of a new employee. Rather the quoted section made me think about how much is often missed in the "incredible hurry" when building products and the systems and processes to support a business.

It would have resonated more with me if he had written the exact same article but if it were not about an employee, but a new technology being integrated into the same busy-worshiping company culture.

randsinrepose.com

]]> 10,000 Words a Day https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2012-08-10000-words-a-day/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2012-08-10000-words-a-day/ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400 A great example of someone paying close attention to reality while experimenting with changing their way of working to achieve success they didn't believe possible.

Definitely worth a read.

thisblogisaploy.blogspot.ca

]]> Note, 30 July 2007 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2007-07-fixing-email/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2007-07-fixing-email/ Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400 fixing email

]]> Note, 27 July 2007 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2007-07-actually-cleaning-up-a-bit/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2007-07-actually-cleaning-up-a-bit/ Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400 actually cleaning up a bit.

]]> Note, 27 July 2007 https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2007-07-buying-a-van/ https://staging.logicaldisconnect.org/post/2007-07-buying-a-van/ Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Buying a van.

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