I want to Airplay a YouTube video to an Apple TV. According to this official support document from Google/YouTube:

As a reminder, if you’re casting from a mobile device, make sure to download the YouTube app. Casting from youtube.com in a mobile web browser is not currently supported.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7640706?hl=en

So, downloaded the YouTube app, can’t find an Airplay icon anywhere. Some users claim its now subsumed under the Cast icon – no luck there for me either.

Turns out, playing the YouTube video directly from Safari shows up the Airplay icon.

*Sigh.

I must say, the form factor of the new Motorola Razr has me tempted to go back to Android. I love the pocketable design and with retro cool to boot! I do hope it was the ThinkPad team that Lenovo deployed to consult on the hinge design.

But its not even in the realm of possibility with that $1500 price tag …

My new found favourite (free) stack for WordPress frontend work – and a little bit of backend tinkering are:

• Drag-and-drop layout: Elementor
• Base theme: Astra
• Ready made templates: Astra Starter Sites, which with my choice also installed the following:
  • Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg
  • WPForms Lite

What is interesting is that Elementor and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg is aiming to do the same thing – provide ready made widgets to drag and drop into the layout. However, I think its best to keep each page/post using one or the other; and both have widgets that are useful and not found in the other.

For the backend, I’ve been using Code Snippets for a long time. But recent discovery of PODS has revolutionised how I create, extend and change Custom Post Types and Custom Fields. It was simple to extend the Post type to have a Custom Field of Date, and easily display it in an Ultimate Addons Post Grid using a Hook in Code Snippets.

Shout out to Integromat, an online service that connects other web services together, using a visual paradigm. Great customer service, even for the free tier.

After working out a few kinks, I’m now able to pipe custom fields from a Woocommerce order into a Airtable base, with relative ease.

Bought a 3TB Seagate usb portable harddrive, and wanted to partition it for both Macs (to have Time Machines on their own dedicated partition) and Windows (for general storage of files).

Can’t be done using Windows, at least not the free software I tried. Had to be done on Mac, but not without some strange phenomenon that required a few tries. Basically, Mac’s Disk Utility won’t partition the Seagate as-is, from what I can find its most likely due to a EFI that is smaller than 200MB (in fact, the Seagate doesn’t have a EFI partition), and also the Seagate has a Microsoft reserved partition that seems to serve no purpose.

Whatever the reason, I didn’t bother to figure it out. I decided to forgo Seagate’s default setup and start from a blank disk. So, in the Mac’s Terminal:

diskutil list
diskutil unmountDisk force disk2 //or whatever disk# the usb drive is]
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1024 count=1024 //this will erase the entire usb disk
diskutil partitionDisk disk2 GPT JHFS+ "KnockDrive" 0g // this will partition the drive with a EFI and the remaining space as a partition of Apple's HFS format

Now open up Mac’s Disk Utility. Use the Partition function to segment the desired number of partitions; for the partition that will be used by a Mac, set it as Journal HFS, and for the partition that will be used by Windows, set it as exFAT.

Voila!

Credit:

• https://mycyberuniverse.com/how-fix-mediakit-reports-not-enough-space-on-device.html
• https://appuals.com/fix-mediakit-reports-not-enough-space-on-device-for-requested-operation/