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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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.

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/

San Diego homeless survival guide - Doreen Traylor https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years - Feargus O'Sullivan/CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/01/amsterdam-architecture-history-canal-houses-urban-design/604921/

GoatCounter – Simple web statistics. No tracking of personal data. https://www.goatcounter.com/

Free 'Language Learning With Netflix' extension teaches you how to speak Spanish, French, Japanese and more while watching movies https://soranews24.com/2020/01/12/free-language-learning-with-netflix-extension-makes-studying-japanese-almost-too-easy/

Firefox package for OpenBSD 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates due to being too complicated https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200109141600

I mentioned the Liquorix kernels for Linux today. If speed is your thing, they are very much worth using for @debian or @ubuntu. I have had much success with them, though now I use the Debian @backports kernel. https://liquorix.net/

A @firefox ESR security update for @Debian Stable https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4600

The Ruby Reference https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubyref/

Substack is a way to publish subscription content on the web. You can publish for free, or charge readers a monthly fee. https://substack.com/about?utm_source=menu

Interactive Vim tutorial https://www.openvim.com/

Frameworkless JS https://frameworkless.js.org/

How to start a blog using Hugo - Flavio Copes https://flaviocopes.com/start-blog-with-hugo/

For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity - Adam Belz/StarTribune.com http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/

Ancient Greek textbooks roundup - Ryan Baumann (aka @ryanfb) https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2018/03/02/ancient_greek_textbooks_roundup.html

Resources for reading Homeric Greek - Ryan Baumann (aka @ryanfb) https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2019/02/25/resources_for_reading_homeric_greek.html

My business card runs Linux - George Hilliard https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/

This page is designed to last: a manifesto for preserving content on the Web - Jeff Huang https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/

When you hit esc and forget you're not in Vim, and you lose your changes in a web form

I don't know how to package software for Windows, Mac or Linux, but it's a vital skill that I'd like to learn

Dear open-source programmer or maintainer: If I write a tweet that is critical of your project's packaging or functionality, I'm not asking you for tech support. And I'm really not crazy about you complaining that I'm asking for something that I'm not.

There have been two recent @debian security updates: Ruby and Thunderbird https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4586 https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4585

Preserve This Podcast: An Andrew W. Mellon grant-funded project hosted by the Metropolitan New York Library Council to help podcasters protect their work against the threats of digital decay http://preservethispodcast.org/

Security update: @debian is updating @firefox https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4580

20 VPS providers to shut down on Monday, giving customers two days to save their data - Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-vps-providers-to-shut-down-on-monday-giving-customers-two-days-to-save-their-data/

Verizon kills email accounts of archivists trying to save Yahoo Groups history - Liam Tung/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-kills-email-accounts-of-archivists-trying-to-save-yahoo-groups-history/

Apple's new monster ,000 Mac Pro is about to ship - Daphne Leprince-Ringuet/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-new-monster-6000-mac-pro-is-about-to-ship/

Alex Bartsch — Covers 2: Retracing more record sleeves around the world http://www.alexbartsch.com/more-covers

Alex Bartsch — Covers: Retracing reggae record sleeves in London http://www.alexbartsch.com/covers

Big @debian security update today for the #Chromium browser https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4575

I have been running Debian Stable on this laptop for more than 3 months, and it has been a lovely experience. The relentless pace of updates in Windows 10 and Fedora drove me to it.

I love how I'm automatically running Debian 10.2, and all I had to do is keep up with regular apt update/upgrades. Check /etc/debian_version to see what you are running.

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

I am installing my first Flatpak application from Flathub, and it is taking a long time. Maybe the second one goes more quickly. https://flathub.org

The state of Java IDE packaging in Linux is not so good. Netbeans and Eclipse didn't even make it into Debian Buster, and the Netbeans in Sid is version 10 when I want 11. Ubuntu also packages Netbeans 10. I can't figure out anything for Ubuntu 19.10.

I still think the M.2 NVMe SSD is the tech MVP of the late 2010s. It's a total game-changer in terms of desktop/laptop performance. I now can't stand using PCs with magnetic hard drives.

Happy 25th year, blogging. You've grown up, but social media is still having a brawl by John Naughton/The Guardian leads with @davewiner as one of the first bloggers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/12/blogging-twenty-five-years-old-all-grown-up

Residents flee San Francisco because of costs - Marco della Cava/USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/19/california-housing-crisis-residents-flee-san-francisco-because-costs/3985196002/

I have an aluminum laptop, and I see no advantage over plastic. Aluminum will dent before plastic will break.

I'm not trying to hate on Medium's "business model," why is it even remotely attractive in a world where WordPress.com won't charge you or your readers, where dev.to is beginning to dominate the developer-blog space, and where you CAN run your own server in the closet or cloud?

I've gotten a lot of paywalled Medium links today. Unless you, the writer, are making some serious Medium money — and I know you're not — consider running your own site or choosing a free platform like ... all the others.

Who really killed Blockbuster? Ben Unglesbee/Retail Dive https://www.retaildive.com/news/who-really-killed-blockbuster/564314/

A love letter to Clojure (Part 1) - Gene Kim. Great post. https://itrevolution.com/love-letter-to-clojure-part-1/#why-i-love-lisps-now

You, your cellphone and a disaster: What to do when communications go wonky - Jason H. Harper/Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-09/shelter-me-you-your-cellphone-and-a-disaster-what-to-do-when-communications-go-wonky

An open letter to the new owners of Meteor - Sacha Greif https://medium.com/@sachagreif/an-open-letter-to-the-new-owners-of-meteor-353d64780b20

I just started using Evolution - I am going full @GNOME, it appears