I enjoy writing the programs in my computer science classes at @LAValleyCollege. I say that now while I'm maybe a third of the way through.

Samsung 970 EVO vs EVO Plus vs PRO: Which is best for you? https://premiumbuilds.com/storage/ssd/samsung-970-evo-vs-970-evo-plus-vs-970-pro/

Interesting take on AWS Lightsail vs. Digital Ocean Droplets: Should I pick DigitalOcean or AWS for my next project? - Corey Quinn/Last Week in AWS https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/should-i-pick-digitalocean-or-aws-for-my-next-project/

How Trader Joe's Two Buck Chuck revolutionized the wine industry - Zachary Crockett/The Hustle https://thehustle.co/how-two-buck-chuck-changed-the-wine-industry

The story of Willie Nelson's guitar, Trigger - Michael Hall/Texas Monthly https://getpocket.com/explore/item/trigger

As of March 16, 2021, @google sync is still working on the Chromium browser in @debian

Debian's apt full-upgrade removes old kernels I no longer need. It's a nice feature. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations_with_the_commandline

How to have Your Own Website for a Year https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/raspberry-pi-website.html

I am fascinated by this website. It's great to find these hidden gems. https://cheapskatesguide.org/

The Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and the Internet https://cheapskatesguide.org/

What to Expect from Old Windows PC's https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/end-of-life.html

BabbleWeb : A Free Website Visitors Comment Script https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/babbleweb.html/

The Photoshop from Adobe CS2 installs in Linux via Wine. It ran OK once but wouldn't run after that despite reinstalls and reboots. It's not a tragedy because my Linux photo workflow is totally worked out. It's in Windows where I have a problem.

The Photoshop from this Adobe Creative Suite 2 ESR download from Archive.org works on Windows 10 https://archive.org/details/Adobe-CS2

From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days - Aaron Bieber https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-fourteen-days.html

How I earn a living selling my open source software - Nemiah https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-earn-a-living-selling-my-open-source-software-476f6bb07e

What is the U.S. Senate filibuster and why is everyone talking about it? - Susan Cornwell/Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-filibuster-explainer-idUSKBN2B22HK

The HEY email service allows paid users to blog by sending emails. That's a very compelling feature. https://hey.com/world/

Today's updates to @debian Bullseye/Testing solved my sound issue. New kernel and firmware. Now when I unplug headphones, sound automatically switches to laptop speakers. As Bullseye inches toward its Stable release, things keep getting better.

I did a @Fedora 33 test today. I could definitely see myself returning. All the positives of community that might come to @centosproject are already there in Fedora, and the projects will be close no matter what. https://getfedora.org/

Hot take: The @Raspberry_Pi 400 is a down payment on an official Raspberry Pi laptop. https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/

From the Archives: 1938 storms change Los Angeles River - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-1938-storms-change-los-angeles-river-20180116-htmlstory.html

How to practice: I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death | Ann Patchett/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/08/how-to-practice

The jazz pianist using a computer program to perform with other musicians in quarantine - Fred Kaplan/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-jazz-pianist-using-a-computer-program-to-play-with-other-musicians-in-quarantine

Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing - Wall Street Journal via Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328428

I didn't know how "far along" my Debian writing project was. I guessed I had 10k words across 7 or 8 text files. I used the wc utility to count the words, and I only have 2,800. That's good for 10 pages.

I was using the 1980s "Unix for Luddites" to play around with nroff and troff, which come from the groff-base package in Debian. But to get "full" functionality, you need to add the groff package, which brings the -me and ms macros onto the system. https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/groff

Now that I opened my long-sealed boxes from the now-closed @ladailynews office (we are working remote), I have my copy of Unix for Luddites and will be writing about my first experiences with Unix and how it led me to where I am today.

The Art of PostgreSQL: a modern PostgreSQL book in 2020 https://theartofpostgresql.com/

Do You Write Code With Your Mouse? A book to use more of the keyboard, less of the mouse. - Matthieu Cneude https://themouseless.dev/

I looked into my Unix past and used nroff to format a short letter. I even defined the .PP macro with info from the 1980s troff manual.

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager in X11 https://swaywm.org/

A Vim guide for advanced users - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-advanced/

A Vim guide for intermediate users - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-intermediate/

Is Vim really not for you? A beginner guide - The Valuable Dev https://thevaluable.dev/vim-beginner/

My website bio now has descriptions and links to the writing projects I'm working on with hosted Git sites http://passthejoe.net/about/

I am looking into floccus browser bookmarks sync even if Google decides not to bar Chromium browsers from the Chrome sync service https://floccus.org/

Look at this Community Update from @rocky_linux. They are doing it right. This will be a much stronger project than @CentOSProject in terms of governance, community involvement and transparency. All good! https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-february-2021/1934

How Garfield helped me make peace with a culture in decline - Dan Brooks/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/magazine/garfield-twitter.html

I updated the archive links on the right column on Steven Rosenberg's microblog of short posts http://updates.passthejoe.net/

I very much like writing for Twitter and Mastodon in my own app because I can use the text editor of my choice, write once and post to both microblogging services as well as my own microblog. http://updates.passthejoe.net/

While I'm very much interested in @rocky_linux and @CentosProject Stream, it's hard to see me leaving @Debian. I also could see myself running @Ubuntu, which I haven't done in a long time. https://thenewstack.io/centos-creator-gregory-kurtzer-discusses-his-new-distro-rocky-linux/

I'm on the lookout for PulseAudio 14.2 to make its way into @Debian Bullseye/Testing. It entered Unstable on 1/19/2021. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pulseaudio

A new Chromium browser just made its way into @Debian Buster/Stable and Bullseye/Testing. It's a good sign for the package being maintained going forward. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium

PulseAudio 14.1 is in Debian Testing, 14.2 in Unstable. Hopefully 14.2 will make it into Bullseye to fix my headphones-to-speakers issue. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pulseaudio

This problem with PulseAudio 14.1 not auto-switching from headphones to speakers is also affecting Debian Bullseye/Testing https://forum.manjaro.org/t/pulseaudio-doesnt-switch-to-speakers-when-headphones-unplugged-after-recent-update/49073/6

Inside the secretly lucrative world of solo piano music - Elias Leight/Rolling Stone https://getpocket.com/explore/item/inside-the-secretly-lucrative-world-of-solo-piano-music

Why are there 5,280 feet in a mile? - Ethan Trex https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-are-there-5-280-feet-in-a-mile

The Block Plan at @coloradocollege is a true innovation that I'd never heard of before. Very interesting. https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/blockplan/

Before I could play around with the command line shell for SQLite, I had to install the sqlite3 package in Debian https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html

CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome - Phil Dibowitz — a very persuasive take on why you shouldn't reject what @redhat is doing with @centosproject out of hand. https://jaymzh.medium.com/centos-stream-why-its-awesome-5c45d944fb22

Michael Romero's Beautiful Hugo theme for the @gohugoio static site generator https://github.com/halogenica/beautifulhugo

.@popey uses the Beautiful Hugo theme for his @gohugoio blog https://popey.com/blog/

Living in New York’s unloved neighborhood - Rivka Galchen/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/living-in-new-yorks-unloved-neighborhood

reuixiy's Hugo theme MemE: You can’t spell aWEsoME without MEME! 😝 https://github.com/reuixiy/hugo-theme-meme

I love the Hugo theme MemE that Daulton uses for Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/

My OpenBSD workstation configuration 2018 - Daulton/Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/2018/08/openbsd-workstation/

OpenBSD beginner essentials - Daulton/Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/2018/08/openbsd-essentials/

Syncthing server setup on OpenBSD - Daulton/Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/2020/09/openbsd-syncthing-server/

My OpenBSD desktop experience - Daulton/Nix, Scripts, and Documentation https://daulton.ca/2018/10/my-openbsd-desktop-experience/