How to travel around the world for free, and in style

scottxp October 3, 2022

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I haven’t paid for a flight in over ten years for myself or anyone in our company. As an entrepreneur who relies on PPC advertising to acquire customers, my company spends a lot of money each year on Google and Facebook ads for the business….

Travel

Installing BMW F30 wi-fi antenna to fix CarPlay connection issues

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scottxp October 1, 2022

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My 2018 340i didn’t come with CarPlay, so I paid bimmer-remote to have fullscreen CarPlay coded into my car. It worked perfectly, and I like CarPlay for the most part, except for intermittent connectivity problems between the phone and the car’s wireless module and the…

BMW

Rate limiting website payments with nginx and haproxy

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scottxp September 27, 2022

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A couple of years ago, our website became the target for some credit card thieves to make batch payment attempts in order to verify which of the stolen card numbers from their stash were active, valid cards. Naturally, cards that are verified to be good…

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Stable diffusion examples

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scottxp September 12, 2022

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This past weekend, I downloaded and installed the stable diffusion dataset and code on my M1 Mac using this guide from Replicate. I’ve been playing around with the txt2img script to generate images from natural language prompts. Here are a few of my favorites. Keep…

Tech

Best Travel Gear for Kids

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scottxp September 8, 2022

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My wife and I love to travel. During the year and a half we dated before getting married, we traveled together to places like Florida, San Francisco, Peru, and Ireland. Although having kids in school has slowed down our traveling a bit, it hasn’t deterred…

Travel

My Work From Home Setup

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scottxp August 28, 2022

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At ProTrainings, we’ve always had a remote-friendly culture. We waited nearly five years before renting our first office space. As a tech company, we can work from anywhere, and we’ve taken full advantage of that! When the pandemic hit in 2020 and we pivoted back…

Tech

Selling my 2015 BMW to Carvana

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scottxp August 26, 2022

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I recently upgraded from a 2015 BMW 328i GT x-drive to a 2018 340i x-drive. Finding a used 340i wasn’t easy. I ended up test driving cars on a Saturday morning during a family vacation to Chicago over the 4th of July. I flew back…

BMW

BMW 340i F30 Mods

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scottxp August 26, 2022

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I’ve been a BMW driver for many years, since purchasing my first 2010 328i about 10 years ago. I recently upgraded from a 2015 328i GT to a 2018 340i, and I have been very happy with the decision. I’ve never been someone who works…

BMW

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