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Weather Radio on a Raspberry Pi

Having a weather radio is pretty important when living in an area with severe storms and tornadoes. While that's useful in the house, I like the idea of being able to stream to my phone when I'm not home. NOAA doesn't operate online radio streams, so any that do exist are provided by volunteers. I decided setting up my own stream would be a fun and useful project.

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Debugging an Unkillable Process

I recently encountered an issue where Microsoft Publisher would intermittently end up in an unkillable state. Publisher is started by Office interops from an NT service. The problem seems to only occur when Publisher runs in a non-interactive session (which all NT services since Vista do), and when a line feed character is present in a text shape.

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My Review of Uber Rewards

As a carless commuter, I was initially excited when Uber rolled out its Uber Rewards loyalty program. But in the intervening weeks I've had an opportunity to review the benefits and decide how likely they are to incentivize my loyalty to Uber. Here's the chart for reference:

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Economics of Uber's Ride Pass

Two months ago, I took the big step of selling my car and diving in with ridesharing services full-time. Since then I've encountered a number of scenarios that seemed interesting to document and reflect on. This first post in the series covers the economics and ethics of Uber's Ride Pass, with later posts covering Lyft and my ridesharing experiences in general.

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