I have written A LOT of @debian articles over the years. A whole lot. http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/

I wrote an article about using @debian Squeeze with Backports in 2012 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2012_0104_debian_backports_kernel

I forgot about @debian Backports. I wrote about it in an old blog post, and it still exists. It might be a better source that Liquorix for newer kernels to use with Debian Stable, though Liquorix is very Debian-centric. https://backports.debian.org/

I wrote an even earlier post on upgrading @debian Squeeze to Wheezy http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2012_0629_upgrade_squeeze_to_wheezy

I wrote about upgrading from @debian Squeeze to Wheezy in 2012 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2012_1130_debian_wheezy_improvements

I wrote about Debian 9 Stretch and my feelings about @debian back in 2017 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2017_0618_debian_9_stretch_is_the_new_stable

Yep, I blogged about the #Liquorix kernel for @Debian in 2011 http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/debian/2011_0223_debian_squeeze_and_the_liquorix_kernels_i_update_with_aptitude

The #Liquorix kernel has solved my touchpad-logging-flood issue in @debian Buster. I'm sure I blogged about the last time Liquorix saved my bacon, and that time was probably in 2010. http://liquorix.net

I was a huge user of Debian Etch (2007-08), Lenny (2009-10) and Squeeze (2011), with some time out for Fedora 13-15 (2010-11) before I returned to Debian Squeeze (2011-12), then Fedora 18-30 (2013-2019). Now I'm back on Debian Buster (and it's still 2019).

Another thing @debian has in its repo: JavaFX/OpenJFX for Java 11 https://packages.debian.org/buster/openjfx

One of the reasons I wanted to run @debian is that it has EVERYTHING in its repos. And it does. I just found Leiningen. While I love @fedora, Debian's huge repo allows me to manage nearly everything via apt. https://packages.debian.org/buster/leiningen

I'll say it again: swapping an M.2 NVMe SSD for a spinning hard drive is a total game-changer

Is Perl 6 being renamed? (plus thoughts on the Perl 5/Perl 6 divide) - Ovid http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html

Why Clojure? - Uncle Bob http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.html

If you must run Windows 10 - TinyApps.org https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811300700_windows_10_ltsc.html

A Book from Alan Turing … and a mysterious piece of paper — Stephen Wolfram https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/08/a-book-from-alan-turing-and-a-mysterious-piece-of-paper/

I'm enjoying the slow pace of updates on @debian 10 Buster. I had one new package yesterday and none today. Right now I don't need anything to be new, so Debian Stable is a good place to park.

If you are using a dark theme in Linux (like Adwaita Dark in GNOME) with Firefox and are having problems with black-on-black or white-on-white form fields, this 2-year-old fix still works https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283086#c7

The evolution of dial telephones http://www.arctos.com/dial/

Xfce 4.14 tour – Xfce https://www.xfce.org/about/tour

Why I love my paper dictionary - Austin Kleon https://austinkleon.com/2017/08/17/why-i-love-my-paper-dictionary/

So far, Debian GNOME on an M.2 SSD is killing Windows 10 on a spinning hard drive. It's not like it's a fair fight, but the performance gain is real and really huge. I didn't realize how much of a bottleneck a magnetic hard drive can be.

Debian has more rough edges than Fedora, and I'm still trying to get .exe files to run in GNOME without drama, but I wanted to have more apps packaged and a much quieter update cycle.

Everything is faster with a cheap M.2 SSD. I was able to get one super cheap, although it's almost too small at 250GB, and Debian Buster is FLYING on it.

The dev.to website is built with Ruby on Rails on the back end, JavaScript on the front end https://dev.to/devteam/dev-went-open-source-one-year-ago-today-and-we-have-so-much-more-planned-530f

This is the most minimal blog I've ever seen. And I like it. https://txt.black/~jack/

Java for everything (2014) https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html

NY Times public editor: The readers versus the masthead - Gabriel Snyder/Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/nyt-headline-trump-mass-shootings.php

Will tumult in the Racketlang world send people running to Common Lisp? https://lisp-lang.org/

The vegetarians who turned into butchers - Melissa Clark/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/dining/butchers-meat-vegetarian-vegan.html

I just figured out multiple desktops on the Mac. I also figured out how to make Finder objects bigger. The only problem is that when I upload an image in the browser, the icons are still too small.

Google Cloud nuked the web server on my VM - Steven Rosenberg http://passthejoe.net/post/2019_0805_google_cloud_nuked_my_server/

Check out my new @GoHugoIO site using the Pixyll theme by @azmelanar http://passthejoe.net/

How phones made the world your office, like it or not - Jeff Giles/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/how-phones-made-the-world-your-office-like-it-or-not.html

Secret of a New York farm stand's success: An eye for the next big thing - Priya Krishna/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/dining/norwich-meadows-farm-vegetables.html

If you need Java, I suggest getting it from AdoptOpenJDK. For Windows, they offer JDK versions 8, 11 and 12, all with MSI installers. Plus, you don't need to sign up with Oracle. https://adoptopenjdk.net/

NW.js: A new way of writing native applications using web technologies HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL https://nwjs.io/

Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30. This is what happens next. - Monojoy Bhattacharjee/What’s New in Publishing https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/google-unlocks-33-of-publisher-paywalls-on-july-30-this-is-what-happens-next/

Humans will never colonize Mars - George Dvorsky/Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/humans-will-never-colonize-mars-1836316222

How America's plastic recycling is broken - The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-recycling-landfills

Young Instagram users give up privacy in search of metrics - Sarah Frier/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-26/young-instagram-users-give-up-privacy-in-search-of-more-metrics

I don't begrudge @disqus making money, but the ads that run with comments are click-bait eyesores. Pros who want what Disqus provides should pay for the service and nuke the ads. 1/

SFTPgo: A full-featured and highly configurable SFTP server written in Golang https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo

Why the dockless scooter industry is going after a repossessor and a bike shop owner - Amy Martyn/The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20696405/dockless-scooters-share-repo-men-repossessor-lawsuit-tow-yard-lime-bird-lyft-uber-razor

What is the difference between an existential threat and just a plain ol' threat? Asking for a friend.

So far, Windows File Manager is SLAUGHTERING OS X Finder in terms of functionality. The question isn't why Windows File Manager is so good but why OS X Finder is so bad.

Lang Lang is back: A piano superstar grows up - Michael Cooper/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/arts/music/lang-lang-piano.html

I remembered this blogPoster bug, which I coded a fix for a few weeks ago and forgot about, because I just crashed the script on a long post.

I have a patch for a blogPoster bug in which articles with too-long titles get too-long filenames and crash Ruby. I just have to deploy the fix. I did it outside blogPoster, now I have to do in the repo.

This 2011 iMac won't run anything newer than OS X High Sierra (10.13). It will be supported for another year and two months. Is nine years or so long enough for Apple to support a computer? Don't know, don't care. Q: When will I put Debian on it? A: Probably soon.

This 2011 iMac has Photoshop. Kind of a meh for me, but I'm seeing what it's all about. I still prefer IrfanView for web photos because I'm quicker with it. And it's quicker in general.

2011 iMac: Mac packaging is a mess, just like all other packaging. Traditional Mac packaging is great and hides a lot of messy stuff. But now there's the Apple App Store, and lots of free-software developers package stuff differently. It's confusing.

More on the 2011 iMac: I stuffed it with 20 GB RAM a while ago. It has a 1 TB spinning drive buried within. You need to remove the screen to get it out, so that ain't happening. It runs OK. Not better than you'd expect, maybe, but OK.

I did enough work on the 2011 iMac with 27-inch monitor to use it for production today. First, I REALLY miss the HD resolution that my HP laptop (and new iMacs, for that matter) offer. Once you go HD, UHD or 4K, you really can't go back. Second, I KNOW it's a 2011 computer.

No CS Degree: Working developers with no CS degree (it's a web site full of them) https://www.nocsdegree.com/

Apache NetBeans 11.1 is out. Pros: A lot of rough edges in the UI have been fixed. Con: Still no Windows installer.

Snoopy taught me how to be a writer - Ann Patchett/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/snoopy-taught-me-how-to-be-a-writer/2019/07/12/8db3ce3c-a31b-11e9-b7b4-95e30869bd15_story.html

This guy works at an Amazon warehouse, and he wrote about it - Kevin Mims/Quillette https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-journalism/

I just ordered toilet paper from @WhoGivesACrapTP

Instead of @disqus, I'm thinking of creating @reddit posts for each comment-worthy entry and linking that in the text