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Thu, 21 Mar 2019

Notes about migrating to Hugo · Fatih Arslan https://arslan.io/2017/11/30/notes-about-migrating-to-hugo/

Wed, 20 Mar 2019

Modern Labor pays you to learn to code https://modernlabor.com/

No Medium — build your own site, please https://nomedium.dev/

Supercharging Vim: Navigate files instantly - Matt Layman https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2019/supercharging-vim-navigate-files-instantly/

Gmail confidential mode now available to G Suite customers https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/keep-data-secure-with-gmail-confidential-mode-beta.html

Tue, 19 Mar 2019

I am using the @LinuxLive USB Creator to make a live @Ubuntu 18.10 stick with persistence http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

Original Apollo moon mission press kits in PDF https://www.apollopresskits.com/apollo-presskit-directory

Mon, 18 Mar 2019

Some humans can sense Earth’s magnetic field, experiment suggests - George Dvorsky/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/fascinating-experiment-suggests-some-humans-can-sense-e-1833377029

Open source doesn’t make money because it isn’t designed to make money - Ian Bicking http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2019/03/open-source-doesnt-make-money-by-design.html

Inside Garageband, the little app ruling the sound of modern music – Amy X. Wang/Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/apple-garageband-modern-music-784257/

As costs skyrocket, more U.S. cities stop recycling - Michael Corkery/New York Times https://share.qz.com/news/2338977/body/

Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 - Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/17/facebook-is-next.html

Fri, 15 Mar 2019

OSDisc.com is still there to provide Linux and BSD CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives of most operating systems https://www.osdisc.com

Install GNOME 3.32 on Fedora 29 using Paul Carroty's Copr repository https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/paulcarroty/Gnome_3.32/

Thu, 14 Mar 2019

I spent the morning using the Microsoft Edge browser, knowing full well that MS is going to kill it in favor of a Chromium-based offering. You could do worse that Edge, for sure. It's a smooth program on Windows 10.

How the Discord chat platform went mainstream - Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-discord-went-mainstream-influencers/584671/

Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-31-4-trillion-digits-of-archimedes-constant-on-google-cloud

Wed, 13 Mar 2019

Your first progressive web app - Pete LePage/Google Developers https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/codelabs/your-first-pwapp/

Desktop progressive web apps with Google Chrome are now supported on all desktop platforms - Google Developers https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/desktop

Tue, 12 Mar 2019

Leaderless Debian - Jonathan Corbet/LWN.net https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/782786/1b0334c3a2a9d8b1/

Firefox Send provides free file transfers while keeping your personal information private - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/

Mon, 11 Mar 2019

Free @dropbox accounts now have a three-device limit https://www.dropbox.com/help/account/computer-limit

A (partial) defense of Debian - John Goerzen http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9971-a-partial-defense-of-debian

Fedora Discussion is a new forum for ... Fedora discussion - Ryan Lerch/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/discuss-everything-fedora/

One thing I picked up from PureOS: Tilix, a GUI terminal with easy split screens. I just added it to Fedora with dnf install tilix.

DaVinci Resolve 15 offers cross-platform video editing for Windows, Mac OS and Linux https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Reaper digital audio workstation software isn't free but does run on Windows, Mac OS and "experimentally" on Linux https://www.reaper.fm/

Sun, 10 Mar 2019

Daylight saving is here. Suppose we made this time change our last? - Kirk Johnson/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/daylight-savings-time.html

Why the eight-hour workday doesn't work — Travis Bradberry/Quartz at Work https://qz.com/work/1561830/why-the-eight-hour-workday-doesnt-work/

The comment moderator is the most important job in the world right now - Ryan Broderick/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-comment-moderator-is-the-most-important-job-in-the

Sat, 09 Mar 2019

The top 100 novels of all time found in libraries around the world - OCLC https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/library100.html

Cheaper domain registration with Cloudflare (thanks for the tip @wesbos) https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

I know where the hosts file is in Linux, now I know where it is in Windows https://windowsable.com/hosts-file-in-windows-10-locate-edit-and-manage/

I needed a cross-platform text editor that allowed for full editing of search/replace macros. By cross-platform, I mean Windows/Linux at a minimum. Now I'm very comfortable editing all kinds of writing in Vim.

Fri, 08 Mar 2019

The Proof CMS is produced by @marquee https://www.marquee.studio/secret-sauce

This is @mmcphate's California Sun newsletter, which is getting better and better https://www.californiasun.co

Proof is the CMS @mmcphate uses to produce the California Sun newsletter https://www.proof.pub/

Riot and rock 'n' roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s - Hadley Meares/Curbed LA https://la.curbed.com/2019/3/7/18244871/sunset-strip-whisky-riots-bars

Thu, 07 Mar 2019

I was testing #PureOS and discovered Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator. It makes running a terminal with multiple windows super easy. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

Notepad++ 7.6.4 released without code signing, with Markdown https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.6.4-released.html

Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing - Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-add-tor-browser-anti-fingerprinting-technique-called-letterboxing/

Converging on convergence: PureOS is convergent, welcome to the future – Jeremiah Foster/Purism https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-convergent-welcome-to-the-future/

Wed, 06 Mar 2019

Christopher Parkening - The GuitarCoop interview https://guitarcoop.com.br/en/guitarcoop-interview-series-christopher-parkening/

This Twitter account could disappear tomorrow, and every post created with my blogPoster script would still be on my self-hosted microblog http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net/

Beautiful Racket: Why language-oriented programming? Why Racket? - Matthew Butterick https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-lop-why-racket.html

La Vie en Code https://www.lavieencode.net/

Every Linux networking tool I know - Julia Evans https://wizardzines.com/networking-tools-poster/

iPhone sales are falling, and Apple's app fees might be next - Michael Liedtke/Associated Press https://apnews.com/5d1b1584438f479abae8488fa2189698

The backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla - Billy Baker/The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/04/the-backyard-mechanic-who-taking-tesla/Sv1l8q2sxpQvTFMp13VFwM/story.html

'War and Peace': The greatest of all novels - Gary Saul Morson/The New Criterion https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/3/the-greatest-of-all-novels

The servant economy: Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses - Alexis C. Madrigal/The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/

I'm really enjoying reading @ManningBooks #programming titles, especially the #GetProgramming series. You can trust them for quality (not a given with all publishers). I'm actually using the #LiveBook versions more than the PDFs.

Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories – Herb Caudill/Medium https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewrite-stories-635e4c8f7c22

Getting started with the cat command | Opensource.com https://opensource.com/article/19/2/getting-started-cat-command

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says he’ll reorient the company towards encryption and privacy - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/06/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-says-hell-reorient-company-towards-encryption-privacy/?utm_term=.a1d2e4ef720e

I didn't realize that my Fedora 29 system didn't have the power-saving utility tuned installed. TecMint has a nice tutorial and explainer. https://www.tecmint.com/tuned-automatic-performance-tuning-of-centos-rhel-servers/

Mon, 04 Mar 2019

Ed Bickert, Canadian jazz guitarist with singular approach, dies at 86 https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/jazzblog/rip-ed-bickert

Sat, 02 Mar 2019

I upgraded Fedora 28 to Fedora 29 using these @fedora Magazine instructions. Seamless this time. https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-28-fedora-29/

Thu, 28 Feb 2019

This Old App is an interesting podcast about making apps, and it also has a very, very nice website that would be great for any podcast. My only question: Why the totally random, computer-generated filenames? https://thisoldapp.online/

Wed, 27 Feb 2019

Shared scooters don't last long https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last-long