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M1 to M4: The Apple Silicon Performance Ladder

I was curious and wanted a list with no advertisements. Apple’s M-series chips have moved fast in just a few generations. What started with the original M1 as a huge leap over Intel Macs has expanded into a full ladder of standard, Pro, Max, and Ultra chips that scale from everyday laptop performance to serious […]

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Trip Radius Planner – A Tiny Tool for Big Roadtrip

Ever want to take a road trip… but have no idea where you actually want to go? Same. So I built a quick tool: Trip Radius Planner Just type in how many hours you want to drive, and it shows you a map of how far you could get. That’s it. No logins, no planning […]

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Created A Playground

I’ve really the playground, you know the days when you could just FTP a few files to a directory and bam it was live on the internet! So I created one again called https://playground.scottpreston.com. Right now I just a a few examples projects/experiments.

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Some of my Favorite Business Books

Over the years I’ve ready many business books. I thought I would spend some time talking about my favorite top 5.

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YouTube – ScottPrestonTV & Exoskeletons

So a few years ago I created another channel on YouTube, called “Almost Ironman” but I’ve decided to stop posting there and just stick with “ScottPrestonTV“. Too much work when I don’t even have one channel doing well, to try to maintain two. So in my spare time I’ve started working on my exoskeleton again. […]

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Goto Robot Brains

These are my “Go To” robot brains or robot “compute”. Below you’ll see an Arduino Leonardo ~$25, an ESP 8266 (NodeMCU) ~$8, and a Raspberry Pi 3 ~$45. I’ve included links to purchase below along with their specs as well as the specs of other similar items. So why these items? Well the Leonardo has […]

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Data & Dieting – Your System (3 of 3)

While there’s errors in data in (calories in) and data out (energy expenditure) it’s your system that makes the difference on whether or not you lose weight. Remember you need a calorie deficit in order to lose weight: Deficit = Calories In – Calories Out. First you need to calculate your RMR or Resting Metabolic […]

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Data & Dieting – Calories In (2 of 3)

Calories In is a really interesting problem, you would think it just comes down to measuring how much food is taken in but when you calculate fiber, mis-measurement, and or use a misleading app, trying to calculate that 500 calorie per day deficit for that 1 pound per week weight loss becomes very hard, or […]

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Data & Dieting – Calories Out (1 of 3)

Taking a short break from technology and building things to talk about fitness and weight loss. I’ll present a 3 part series of posts to talk about what I’ve learned over the past few years. There’s been a lot of books I’ve read over the years about losing weight and getting fitter. Low Carbs. No […]

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What’s Old Is New Again – App Store

I decided last night to renew my Apple Developer Account and decided to work on apps again. As a result my old App came back to the App Store. This app is the “Are You Worthy?” App, which is basically a Magic 8 Ball to test to see if you’re worthy of wielding Thor’s Hammer, […]

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