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Tue, 16 Jun 2020

30-hour-long production of James Joyce's Ulysses to air for Bloomsday - The Irish Post https://www.irishpost.com/news/30-hour-long-production-of-james-joyces-ulysses-to-air-live-across-the-world-186750

36 guitarists play 36 Caprices Op. 20 by Legnani - This Is Classical Guitar https://www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/complete-36-caprices-op20-legnani/

The favorite books, programming and otherwise, from @aspittel https://welearncode.com/books/

At LA Times, rancor over racial equity roils newsroom - David Folkenflik/NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/874530954/rancor-erupts-in-la-times-newsroom-over-race-equity-and-protest-coverage

I have come to the conclusion that it's not worth it to push to two remote git repos

Mon, 15 Jun 2020

Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main - Scott Hanselman https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterTaoMain.aspx

Sun, 14 Jun 2020

The scrappy rise of Fender's early sales team: From lap steels to Teles - Tony Bacon/Reverb News https://reverb.com/news/the-team-that-made-fender-a-household-name

My MO is starting a blog post about one thing and having it be mostly about another thing about halfway through. Then I have to mess with the title so it sort of, kind of, hangs together.

An interview with Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto - Evrone https://evrone.com/yukihiro-matsumoto-interview

Thu, 11 Jun 2020

I had a 'free' Google Cloud Platform VPS, and while the server was running, I didn't have a domain pointing at it. Google started charging me anyway, and I couldn't figure out why from the billing. I stopped the server. Maybe AWS or Azure do their 'free' tier better.

Twitter is trying out a new feature that gently suggests you actually read an article before sharing it - Aaron Holmes/Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/new-twitter-feature-sharing-articles-without-opening-them-2020-6

Antifa activists seize control of Seattle neighborhood and declare “autonomous zone” - Christopher F. Rufo/City Journal https://www.city-journal.org/antifa-seattle-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone

Wed, 10 Jun 2020

David Heinemeier Hansson interview - Evrone https://evrone.com/dhh-interview

The @debian security team updated the Linux kernel due to several vulnerabilities https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00103.htm https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00102.html

Handle Ruby exceptions with the begin and rescue keywords - Jesus Castello/RubyGuides https://www.rubyguides.com/2019/06/ruby-rescue-exceptions/

blogPoster can now send to a Mastodon instance. The code is very rough, and documentation (such as it is) is inline. But it works.

I'm booting my Raspberry Pi 4 from a USB SSD | Jeff Geerling https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/im-booting-my-raspberry-pi-4-usb-ssd

Tue, 09 Jun 2020

Apple plans to announce ARM transition for all Macs at WWDC 2020 | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/apple-plans-to-announce-arm-transition-for-all-macs-at-wwdc-2020/

Mon, 08 Jun 2020

Old code gets younger every year - Marianne Bellotti/Medium https://medium.com/@bellmar/old-code-gets-younger-every-year-3bd24c7f2262

Sun, 07 Jun 2020

Delete to the end of a sentence in Vim with d)

I just installed Microsoft Visual Studio Community, and the installer DOESN'T drop a shortcut on the desktop. I don't recall the installer asking about it. This Stack Overflow page shows you where to find the .exe so you can do it yourself. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37438064/where-is-the-microsoft-visual-studio-community-executable-located

Thu, 04 Jun 2020

VimWiki https://vimwiki.github.io/vimwikiwiki/

Tue, 02 Jun 2020

Ever since an in-place upgrade to Debian Buster, my Raspberry Pi has been losing its network connection about once a day. I'm too lazy to reinstall the OS, so I set cron to reboot twice a day.

'This is a big hit': Van Nuys cleans up after peaceful protest became a destructive evening by @AriPlachta @ladailynews https://www.dailynews.com/2020/06/02/this-is-a-big-hit-van-nuys-cleans-up-after-peaceful-protest-became-a-destructive-evening/

Mon, 01 Jun 2020

Free online whiteboard for remote collaboration from @MiroHQ https://miro.com/l/remote-collaboration

Sat, 30 May 2020

FlatLaf Dark look and feel in @netbeans is really nice

I'm testing @netbeans and tweeting about it to take my mind off of all that's going on. Not working too well, but there it is.

I am working a split shift so I'll be in the chair later for protest/riot coverage across LA. I try really hard not to get political on Twitter because of what I do. The division, inequality and lack of leadership in this nation have led to this, and I'm sad to see it.

First JavaFX works out of the box in the @apache @netbeans daily build, and now C++ (with a Netbeans 8.2 plugin) also works. Amazing progress. https://netbeans.apache.org/

I just downloaded a daily build of @netbeans, and I am very happy to say that I was able to start, build and run a JavaFX project with no issues. Thank you to all developers working on the IDE.

The @OpenBeans build of @NetBeans includes bundled JavaFX libraries, C/C++ support and online Maven support. Thanks @emilianbold. http://www.openbeans.org/comparison.html

We are very lucky to have @debian. Thank you to all who put it together.

Frameworkless Movement: Developers interested in developing applications without frameworks http://frameworklessmovement.org/

Linux security hardening and other tweaks - @blakkheim https://vez.mrsk.me/linux-hardening.html

Thu, 28 May 2020

There is now an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 for , and Raspbian has been renamed Raspberry Pi OS https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/

Wed, 27 May 2020

Why use @BeakerBrowser? - Beaker Docs https://docs.beakerbrowser.com/why-use-beaker

Beaker Browser: A peer-to-peer browser for Web hackers https://beakerbrowser.com/

Rediscovering the small Web - Parimal Satyal/Neustadt.fr https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/

Tue, 26 May 2020

Free Unix shells at Polarhome http://polarhome.com/

Slack CEO: Microsoft is ‘unhealthily preoccupied with killing us’ - The Verge (Slack says Teams is primarily a video platform. It's really a Slack killer.) https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270421/slack-ceo-stewart-butterfield-microsoft-teams-competition

Have you ever thought of using IntenseDebate comments on your not-WordPress blog? I'm thinking about it. https://intensedebate.com/home

C++ has become more Pythonic - Jeff Preshing https://preshing.com/20141202/cpp-has-become-more-pythonic/

c++ - Why is "using namespace std;" considered bad practice? - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1452721/why-is-using-namespace-std-considered-bad-practice

A new cross-platform open source C++ framework - Jeff Preshing https://preshing.com/20200526/a-new-cross-platform-open-source-cpp-framework/

Mon, 25 May 2020

Work from home is dead, long live work from anywhere – Danny Crichton/TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/18/work-from-home-is-dead-long-live-work-from-anywhere/

Sun, 24 May 2020

Remembering the nearly 100,000 lives lost to coronavirus in America - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html

Fri, 22 May 2020

More big moves from Microsoft: Windows Package Manager - Demitrius Nelon/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/

Microsoft is very much committed to rapid development with its Windows Subsystem for Linux - Craig Loewen/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-build-2020-summary/

Microsoft open-sources GW-BASIC | Rich Turner/Windows Command Line https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-sources-gw-basic/

Wed, 20 May 2020

Fedora Silverblue, an introduction for developers - Nick Hardiman/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-silverblue-brings-future-tech-to-the-desktop/

IDEs and text editors for writing C++ code on a large scale - Daniel Martin/Inside PSPDFKit https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2020/ide-text-editors-cpp-large-scale/