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Tue, 12 Mar 2019

Firefox Send provides free file transfers while keeping your personal information private - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/

Mon, 11 Mar 2019

Free @dropbox accounts now have a three-device limit https://www.dropbox.com/help/account/computer-limit

A (partial) defense of Debian - John Goerzen http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9971-a-partial-defense-of-debian

Fedora Discussion is a new forum for ... Fedora discussion - Ryan Lerch/Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/discuss-everything-fedora/

One thing I picked up from PureOS: Tilix, a GUI terminal with easy split screens. I just added it to Fedora with dnf install tilix.

DaVinci Resolve 15 offers cross-platform video editing for Windows, Mac OS and Linux https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Reaper digital audio workstation software isn't free but does run on Windows, Mac OS and "experimentally" on Linux https://www.reaper.fm/

Sun, 10 Mar 2019

Daylight saving is here. Suppose we made this time change our last? - Kirk Johnson/The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/daylight-savings-time.html

Why the eight-hour workday doesn't work — Travis Bradberry/Quartz at Work https://qz.com/work/1561830/why-the-eight-hour-workday-doesnt-work/

The comment moderator is the most important job in the world right now - Ryan Broderick/BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/the-comment-moderator-is-the-most-important-job-in-the

Sat, 09 Mar 2019

The top 100 novels of all time found in libraries around the world - OCLC https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/library100.html

Cheaper domain registration with Cloudflare (thanks for the tip @wesbos) https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

I know where the hosts file is in Linux, now I know where it is in Windows https://windowsable.com/hosts-file-in-windows-10-locate-edit-and-manage/

I needed a cross-platform text editor that allowed for full editing of search/replace macros. By cross-platform, I mean Windows/Linux at a minimum. Now I'm very comfortable editing all kinds of writing in Vim.

Fri, 08 Mar 2019

The Proof CMS is produced by @marquee https://www.marquee.studio/secret-sauce

This is @mmcphate's California Sun newsletter, which is getting better and better https://www.californiasun.co

Proof is the CMS @mmcphate uses to produce the California Sun newsletter https://www.proof.pub/

Riot and rock 'n' roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s - Hadley Meares/Curbed LA https://la.curbed.com/2019/3/7/18244871/sunset-strip-whisky-riots-bars

Thu, 07 Mar 2019

I was testing #PureOS and discovered Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator. It makes running a terminal with multiple windows super easy. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

Notepad++ 7.6.4 released without code signing, with Markdown https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.6.4-released.html

Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing - Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-add-tor-browser-anti-fingerprinting-technique-called-letterboxing/

Converging on convergence: PureOS is convergent, welcome to the future – Jeremiah Foster/Purism https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-convergent-welcome-to-the-future/

Wed, 06 Mar 2019

Christopher Parkening - The GuitarCoop interview https://guitarcoop.com.br/en/guitarcoop-interview-series-christopher-parkening/

This Twitter account could disappear tomorrow, and every post created with my blogPoster script would still be on my self-hosted microblog http://updates.stevenrosenberg.net/

Beautiful Racket: Why language-oriented programming? Why Racket? - Matthew Butterick https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-lop-why-racket.html

La Vie en Code https://www.lavieencode.net/

Every Linux networking tool I know - Julia Evans https://wizardzines.com/networking-tools-poster/