David Ebbo

@davidebbo.com

I used to write code for a living at Microsoft and Google in Seattle. Now I moved to France and just do it for fun!

Windows Quick Assist is quite nice. I just unblocked my daughter who was stuck at school with a Google Drive issue. Very easy to set up.

I have an old all-in-one printer that I'm trying to use as a plain scanner. But no, can't do that unless you first replace the ink cartridges! Because ink is apparently essential to the scanner! How is that even legal...

Found Netflix Sprint disappointing. Ultra focused on the featured athletes, and making it look like all the others are not even there. I felt the same about Break Point (tennis). I'm done with those shows!

Doing math with my kid, I just learned a trick to know if a number divides by 7: double the last digit, subtract that from the other digits, and see if that divides by 7. e.g. 847 -> 84 - (2*7) = 70. So divisible by 7. I'm probably the last one to learn this, but thought I'd share anyway 😀

A US credit card refund on a France purchase ended up being less than the charged amount because the exchange rate had changed. Hopefully, next time it'll be reversed and I'll make some money!