Apple announces new iPhone SE starting at https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/iphone-se-a-powerful-new-smartphone-in-a-popular-design/

🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog - Joel Hooks https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden

Debian sends security updates for Thunderbird and Git https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4656 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4657

Try gh, GitHub's new CLI - John Papa https://johnpapa.net/try-githubs-new-cli-gh/

WriteFreely is free and open source software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community. https://writefreely.org/

This is the Fediverse Network list of Pleroma instances https://fediverse.network/pleroma

An introduction to the Pleroma microblogging server - Lainblog. tl;dr Pleroma has fewer moving parts. https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

Pleroma is a free, federated social network server built on open protocols. It is compatible with GNU Social, Mastodon and other ActivityPub implementations. https://pleroma.social/

This is Git gold: Pushing to multiple remote repositories using Git - Casey Scarborough http://caseyscarborough.com/blog/2013/08/25/pushing-to-multiple-remotes-using-git/

New task for me: Figure out how to post to a Mastodon site from a local app https://joinmastodon.org/

In Windows, the net-ping Ruby gem needs the win32-security gem in order to run. I found this out after a few crashes and a look at the net-ping documentation. https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/net-ping/

Opposite of a platform for DPL 2020 - Sam Hartman (current Debian Project Leader on why he is not running for the position this year) https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2020/03/msg00000.html

This is the debian-user list email that announced the Debian User Forums way back in 2004. https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/09/msg00014.html

Debian is testing the use of a Discourse forum. The project's members have stedfastly kept just about all communication to email only. The longtime Debian User Forums (http://forums.debian.net) is independent of the project. https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00074.html

Debian has released security updates in recent days for @firefox and #Chromium https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4655 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4653 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4654

A little more Clojure - Uncle Bob/Clean Coder Blog http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2020/04/09/ALittleMoreClojure.html

Mathematics for the adventurous self-learner | Neil Sainsbury https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner

The software industry's greatest sin: hiring | Neil Sainsbury https://www.neilwithdata.com/developer-hiring

The @GNOME desktop just crashed. Doesn't happen often. Firefox and Chromium saved my tabs, and Vim saved almost all of my changes, but still ...

I am using the Dark Theme Toggle @GNOME Shell Extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1518/dark-theme-toggle/

Updating your @GNOME Shell Extensions in @firefox from the GNOME web site can be dicey in @debian stable. An update broke Tray Icons, so I replaced with TopIconsFix. Don't update extensions that are not broken. https://extensions.gnome.org/

I speak Vim. Sort of. I probably can order in a Vim-speaking restaurant. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki

To make a long story short, I am trying to manually install a GNOME Shell extension using this LinuxConfig.org tutorial https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-gnome-shell-extensions-from-zip-file-using-command-line-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux

FuryBSD is a desktop system powered by FreeBSD https://www.furybsd.org

Twitter lets you turn off "personalization and data" settings. Do this to blunt @twitter's ability to "personalize" ads, track you across the web and "share" (aka sell) that data to its "business partners." https://twitter.com/settings/account/personalization

It won't cure coronavirus, but LAUSD sweetens your life with the recipe for its famous coffee cake http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0408_lausd_coffee_cake_for_coronavirus/

There are just about 2,500 entries in my microblog of short posts. http://updates.passthejoe.net