Twitter is broken due to a DDoS attack. The AP story I pulled downplays it quite a bit -- it's not just the East Coast, and it is continuing into the afternoon. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-dyn-attack-20161021-snap-story.html
I just discovered the Ember Weekend podcast https://emberweekend.com
Creating encrypted documents with Vim https://linux-audit.com/using-encrypted-documents-with-vim/
Jazz Advice indeed has a lot of good jazz advice http://www.jazzadvice.com
Bloc: I’m Considering a Coding Bootcamp: Should I learn JavaScript or Ruby? https://blog.bloc.io/im-considering-a-coding-bootcamp-should-i-learn-javascript-or-ruby/
One guy's Google interview prep can be everybody else's computer-science tutorial https://github.com/jwasham/google-interview-university
I could almost run OpenBSD 6.0. http://www.openbsd.org/60.html. When I'm allowed to abandon Citrix on an ice floe, that is.
More on what TrueOS (ex-PC-BSD) is all about https://www.trueos.org/more-on-trueos/
PC-BSD has rebranded as TrueOS. Doesn't run on AMD/ATI, so I can't try it https://www.trueos.org/2016/09/01/pc-bsd-evolves-into-trueos/
Blogging with Markdown, Dropbox and Rails by Piotr Chmolowski http://pchm.co/posts/blogging-with-markdown-dropbox-and-rails
The Ruby Weekly newsletter led me to Sam Koblenski's excellent tech-heavy blog http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com. I especially like the Tech Book Face Offs http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/search/label/Tech%20Book%20Face%20Off
We ate at @oleegousa twice this weekend -- it's that good. My new No. 1 at @WestfieldFS #ShermanOaks
Why Linus likes the GPL license more than the BSD
Our 13-year-old can't wrap her head around life without the Internet and smartphones. How can I blame her?
I've been thinking about the pre-web, pre-smartphone days. That is all.
It feels like a month since I took the Twitter and Google News apps off of my phone. Still have them on the tablet, but not the phone.
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This site is dedicated to social-media-style updates. For longer pieces, see links to my main sites above. In this microblog, I am using a command-line script written in Ruby to feed this site and my Fediverse account on Mastodon.
In February 2026, I fixed this microblog and changed my configuration in the blogPoster script so I could start posting to it again. Even though I'm a regular Fediverse user, I see some value in keeping my own microblog in this simple form. It's basically a blog that can be easily fed and which doesn't show post titles (though every post does have a title, the blog HTML hides them).Goals in 2026
I'd like to begin work on a new blog-posting GUI app that makes it easy to write and post to a Hugo or Zola blog. I have sites using both static site generators, but the Zola site is where I'm writing these days.
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The Ode project website has been down for some time, but you can find what's left of the user base at Gitter.
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