I installed @racketlang in @debian Buster. sudo apt install racket brings in the whole thing, including the DrRacket IDE. https://racket-lang.org

I added the Dark Theme Toggle GNOME Shell Extension. Happy to say that it works. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1518/dark-theme-toggle/

I tried to use emacs today. That is all.

My Zen of Debian project is now on Codeberg.org https://codeberg.org/passthejoe/zen-of-debian

Sourcehut - hosted repositories and CI for hackers https://sourcehut.org/

7-month-old Hacker News thread on the Unison File Synchronizer, of which I'm a big fan. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627903

Why software projects and packages have the names they do - Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName

How to make your own yeast for baking - Justine Calma/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking-covid-19-shortage-make-it-yourself-bread

Free hosted Git service Codeberg.org launched at the beginning of 2019 https://blog.codeberg.org/codebergorg-launched.html

Codeberg.org is a free Git hosting service for free-software projects. They use @giteaio. http://codeberg.org

The hottest free agent in L.A. is a 69-year-old waitress from now-closed Nate ’n Al’s - Daniel Miller/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-04-03/coronavirus-nate-n-als-waitress-gloria-leon

Here's how Bird laid off 406 people in two minutes - Ben Bergman/dot.LA https://dot.la/bird-layoffs-meeting-story-2645612465.html

3 free meals a day for all in New York City https://www.schools.nyc.gov/freemeals

They all retired before they hit 40. Then this happened. - Steven Kurutz/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/style/fire-movement-stock-market-coronavirus.html

The woman who lives 200,000 years in the past - Katherine Rowland/Outside Online https://www.outsideonline.com/2411125/lynx-vilden-stone-age-life

A message to our users - Zoom https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/

Jazz guitar great Bucky Pizzarelli dies of coronavirus at 94 - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/arts/music/bucky-pizzarelli-dead-coronavirus.html

These are the common compose key sequences that can render special characters. I'm using @gnome to access these. - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_combinations

I just figured out that @gnome has a 'compose key' feature to make it easy to enter special characters like accented letters. I set right ctrl as my compose key. https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/tips-specialchars.html.en

Campus is closed, so college students are rebuilding their schools in Minecraft - Pearse Anderson/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21200972/college-students-graduation-minecraft-coronavirus-school-closures

OMG, an @sdtimes article that I actually want to tweet: Eclipse Foundation offers open-source alternative to Visual Studio Code https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/eclipse-foundation-offers-open-source-alternative-to-visual-studio-code/

I made another blog post, this time about a 19th-century classical guitar http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0330_amazing_torres_classical_guitar/

I wrote my first blog entry in a long time. Only for those who care about classical guitar technique. http://passthejoe.net/post/2020_0330_nails/

Appearance improvements — with lots of choices — for @Apache @NetBeans 11.3 are strong https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb113/index.html#_appearance

Thank you to the @netbeans team for the 11.3 release with so many improvements. From the easy-to-see visual fixes and upgrades to better JavaFX integration, this is an important release. More thanks for Flatpak packaging. http://netbeans.apache.org/

Bail out journalists. Let newspaper chains die. - Ben Smith/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-journalists-newspapers.html

Debian's apt and GNOME's Software Center will not update your Flatpak application. Run this in a terminal:

$ flatpak update

I figured this out in the Flatpak documentation. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/using-flatpak.html