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Sat, 07 Apr 2018

Early days: the VIC-20 Programmer's Reference Guide. This isn't the first interesting link I've found from the Rachel by the Bay blog. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/06/learn/

Why is everyone so busy? - In search of lost time - The Economist https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why

Wed, 04 Apr 2018

Using Vim in my project has really helped my skills in that editor. That's what working with a couple dozen small Vim files per day will do for you.

I had to ssh into a server yesterday and set up a small script and a cron job, and I could feel how different that process was now that I can do more with Vim.

I can move around in files much more easily, and I know the basics of copy/move/paste, which is more than I could say before.

Clojure is trying to push me in the Emacs direction, and maybe I could get comfortable with that editor, but the universality of Vim/Vi is hard to ignore.

I got NordVPN working via OpenVPN in Fedora Linux. It wasn't as easy as in Windows, where there's a turnkey app, but these instructions worked both in the console and via NetworkManager, and I recommend you use the latter. https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/linux/openvpn/

If you want to run exa, a modern replacement for ls, via a binary package, systems that offer them are Mac OS's Homebrew, and Arch and Fedora Linux. Nothing yet for Debian or Ubuntu, as far as I can tell. https://the.exa.website/

Tue, 03 Apr 2018

GitHub - magnars/stasis: Some Clojure functions for creating static websites. https://github.com/magnars/stasis

Clojure Features: Or why you should stop worrying about features and just use Clojure | Benjamin Zaporzan http://benzaporzan.me/blog/2018/3/29/clojure_features_or_why_you_should_stop_worrying_about_features_and_just_use_clojure/

Mon, 02 Apr 2018

I needed to set my classpath for Java in Windows, and despite this page saying it's obsolete, it worked for Win 10. Now I can keep my Java libraries in one directory and use them wherever I'm working on a program. https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/15inout/classpath.html

There's a spy in the house, and it's name is Alexa (or its Google equivalent). People seem to be OK with this, and it is disturbing. I'm worried that the act of using a smarphone is no better in terms of how we're being tracked by corporations. From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/media/amazon-google-privacy-digital-assistants.html

GNOME 3.28 is coming to Fedora 28. Here's what's new and improved - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/gnome-3-28-released-coming-fedora-28/

Which JavaScript frameworks are the fastest? - JavaScript Report https://javascriptreport.com/js-frameworks-fastest/

There are Rust apps in Fedora - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applications-today/

Sun, 01 Apr 2018

The Palmer Method of Business Writing (This is what handwriting the way I learned it is supposed to look like it) https://archive.org/details/PalmerMethod1935

Fri, 30 Mar 2018

Improving handwriting with Spencerian penmanship - Page Flutter https://pageflutter.com/spencerian-penmanship/

Thu, 29 Mar 2018

State of Clojure survey 2018 analysis – Daniel Compton https://danielcompton.net/2018/03/28/clojure-survey-2018

Uber is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here's How to Avoid It https://therideshareguy.com/uber-is-ripping-off-frequent-riders-and-heres-how-to-avoid-it/

Will we ever reach 'peak storage'? https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/27/17168088/cheap-storage-warehouse-self-storage-real-estate

I am experimenting with multiple desktops in Windows 10 https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-multiple-desktops-in-windows-10/

Tue, 27 Mar 2018

Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked - Mozilla https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/

How I erased 5000+ Facebook comments and likes - Jaruzel http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/How-I-Erased-5000-Facebook-Comments-and-Likes

Sun, 25 Mar 2018

What is the Fediverse? https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

Fri, 23 Mar 2018

Donald Trump is radically transforming his White House. He's been president for 1 year - CNNPolitics https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/trump-cohn-bolton-tillerson-mcmaster/index.html

Web sites are more secure when they allow users to paste passwords - National Cyber Security Centre (UK) https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/let-them-paste-passwords

Thu, 22 Mar 2018

Cutting ‘Old Heads’: Age discrimination at IBM - ProPublica https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/

Tue, 20 Mar 2018

Polo is a new, advanced file manager for Linux that is written in Vala. It is available in COPR for Fedora https://fedoramagazine.org/4-cool-copr-february-2018. Here is the project site: https://teejee2008.github.io/polo/

How to add fonts to Fedora - Fedora Magazine https://fedoramagazine.org/add-fonts-fedora/

There is now a Fedora Podcast https://x3mboy.fedorapeople.org/podcast/