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Running MNT Reform OS on an NVME Disk
Running the MNT Reform 2 from an SD card is not a bad solution. It’s similar to the way a Raspberry Pi is run. However, I wanted to free the SD card slot. In this post I describe the whole process from picking and buying an NVMe SSD, to installing and configuring it. But before […]
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MNT Reform 2 DIY Kit Review
The MNT Reform 2 laptop was made available on Crowd Supply in June 2020. This review is for the DIY kit version, and I’ll focus on the experience of supporting this project and its vendor through crowdsourcing, the process of putting the machine together, and my first impressions. I plan to share a second post with my thoughts on […]
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Ruby On Rails: Storing JSON Directly in PostgreSQL
Whenever we save data from one of our Rails models, each attribute is mapped one to one to a field in the database. These fields are generally of a simple type, like a string or an integer. However, it’s also possible to save an entire data object in JSON format in a field. Let’s see […]