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Removing a Broken Headphone Plug from an iPhone
Broken Headphone Plug and iPhone. 😱 The headphone jack is a pretty key port for anyone not on an iPhone 7 or later, so a broken headphone plug shoved in the jack renders a phone pretty much useless. It’s also too small a space for needle nose pliers. So what do you do if something…
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Dyson DC 40 Shuts Down from Overheating
This is the second time in about a month that my Dyson DC 40 has shut down from overheating. The symptoms start with loss of suction from the head assembly (leaving dust bunny trails, etc.) while the hose end still had good suction. I started out by disassembling the head unit and cleaning out the…
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rspec-rails tricks: Hacking Your Routes for a Spec
I don’t know that this is so much a reminder of “What can be done with rspec-rails” as a note that, “If you do this will rspec-rails, you will also need to undo it.” Today’s note: If you hack the application routes for a controller test, you have to reload routes. The original problem This…