Title photo
Think globally, microblog locally
Thu, 06 Feb 2020

Uses This / Alice Maz is where I learned about @voidlinux https://usesthis.com/interviews/alice.maz/

Void Linux - the strangely overlooked distribution - Andrew Powell/The Linux Rain https://www.thelinuxrain.com/articles/void-linux-the-strangely-overlooked-distribution

Void Linux review: It's a Linux and BSD hybrid - John Paul/It's FOSS https://itsfoss.com/void-linux/

Void Linux: built from scratch for full independence - Jack M. Germain/LinuxInsider https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Void-Linux-Built-From-Scratch-for-Full-Independence-85703.html

DistroWatch review of Void Linux (2018) https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20181217#void

@Void Linux is a rolling distro that uses the runit init system (instead of systemd) and its own xpbs package manager. It is not a fork of anything, say developers. https://voidlinux.org/

Wed, 05 Feb 2020

Twitter, should tweets end with a period? Just wondering.

If your "job" is cold-calling people on the phone with the intent of selling them things they don't want or need, or outright scamming them, please quit now and do ANYTHING else.

Tue, 04 Feb 2020

You CAN get a Gibson ES-330-like guitar in the form of Heritage's H-530 https://heritageguitars.com/pages/h-530

If I were in the market for an ES-175, I'd seriously look at Heritage's H-575 https://heritageguitars.com/pages/h-575

Mini projects built with HTML5, CSS & JavaScript. No frameworks or libraries - Brad Traversy https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects

Sat, 01 Feb 2020

Scrappy start-up Iowa Starting Line is the 'it' read for political insiders - Michael M. Grynbaum/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/media/iowa-caucus-media-starting-line.html

Fri, 31 Jan 2020

Classical music by candlelight in an L.A. church - Malia Wooten/Secret Los Angeles https://secretlosangeles.com/classical-music-by-candlelight-in-a-stunning-la-church

Thu, 30 Jan 2020

gThumb is my photo-editing app of choice for Linux. It does everything well and handles IPTC caption data in a way that GIMP has promised but never delivered. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb

Mon, 27 Jan 2020

The history of the Trapper Keeper - Erin McCarthy/Mental Floss https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52726/history-trapper-keeper

Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit - Ian Coldwater https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec

Revolution Pi brings Raspberry Pi into industrial-PC space https://revolution.kunbus.com/revolution-pi-series/

Fri, 24 Jan 2020

There is a new @debian security update for python-apt https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4609

Wed, 22 Jan 2020

dev.to, aka @ThePracticalDev, acquires @CodeNewbies. I can't tell if this the way it was supposed to happen. https://dev.to/devteam/special-announcement-from-dev-4oi

Tue, 21 Jan 2020

What is 'comprehensible input' in language teaching? A Latin teacher blogs about it here. https://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/

Vimwiki: A personal wiki for Vim http://vimwiki.github.io/

Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It - Nat Eliason https://www.nateliason.com/blog/roam

Mon, 20 Jan 2020

Two big @debian security updates today: openjdk-11 and chromium https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/threads.html

Fri, 17 Jan 2020

I replaced my @debian Backports 5.2 Linux kernel with 5.4 and then had to replace that with 5.3. The GUI kept freezing. All is well now with the 5.3 kernel.

Thu, 16 Jan 2020

Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow - Jay Peters/The Verge (I will miss the Secure Shell ...) https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21067907/google-chrome-apps-end-support-lune-windows-macos-linux

College degrees used to make families wealthier. That’s no longer true - Benjamin Reeves/Worth https://www.worth.com/college-degrees-used-to-make-families-wealthier-thats-no-longer-true/

Running Linux on your smartphone: everything you need to know in 2020 https://tuxphones.com/2020-everything-running-linux-smartphone-guide/