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Fri, 26 Aug 2016

Our 13-year-old can't wrap her head around life without the Internet and smartphones. How can I blame her?

I've been thinking about the pre-web, pre-smartphone days. That is all.

It feels like a month since I took the Twitter and Google News apps off of my phone. Still have them on the tablet, but not the phone.

The great people at @laptopkeys got me typing 'n' once again

Thu, 25 Aug 2016

Shopify is a huge e-commerce web-site provider, and they use Ruby on Rails https://engineering.shopify.com

Sat, 20 Aug 2016

Yelp, thank you for withholding your content because I'm using a tablet and don't want your stupid app.

Fri, 19 Aug 2016

Will Fedora 22 OpenShot run on Fedora 24 and solve the "OpenShot 2.x is horrible" issue? Only one way to find out.

You think you can do what you do on a laptop with a tablet if you add a keyboard and mouse. But you can't. Creating content remains a "real" computer's game.

Wed, 17 Aug 2016

Audacity is having a screen-rendering issue in Fedora 24. Bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347053

I've probably edited 100 videos with the "old" OpenShot, but I can say without reservation that the new OpenShot has gone to hell

Sun, 10 Jul 2016

Older versions of Citrix Receiver, aka ICAClient, are available. I'm thinking my particular apps like 13.0 better than 13.3.

Thu, 16 Jun 2016

OMG, the @railstutorial by @mhartl https://www.railstutorial.org/book

The /now page movement -- it's what you're doing now http://sivers.org/nowff and http://nownownow.com

Tue, 14 Jun 2016

Coding Horror: It's a UNIX system, I know this https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/its-a-unix-system-i-know-this/4378

Wed, 08 Jun 2016

I set up Ruby on a CentOS 6 server. It was Ruby 1.8.7. Makes my 1.9 Pickaxe book seem timely.

Fri, 03 Jun 2016

.@fkarlitschek already left @owncloud, and now he forks the project and starts Nextcloud http://karlitschek.de/2016/06/nextcloud

Sat, 28 May 2016

Fedora's yumex-dnf has been broken for about a week. The issue is with dnfdaemon, and a fix is on the way https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1338564#c18

Update: The fix is in. Yumex-dnf is working again.

Wed, 25 May 2016

As I do occasionally, I used GNOME 3 instead of Xfce 4.12 today to start my work. It all fell apart when the GNOME screenshot utility barely worked.

Update: I mapped GNOME Screenshot to alt-P instead of PrintScreen, and that works, but it's hard to choose the type of image I want, which is JPG, and the only way to make it work is to take the PNG offered and convert it later.

In contrast, the Xfce screenshot tool works with the PrintScreen key and makes any kind of image I want with no complaining.

Mon, 16 May 2016

Acousticmusic.org has a large archive of old guitar catalogs, best I've seen http://acousticmusic.org/research/history/catalogs #gibson #fender #martin #epiphone

How to get a developer job in less than a year (Free Code Camp blog) https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-get-a-developer-job-in-less-than-a-year-c27bbfe71645

United RPMs is a new repo for Fedora https://unitedrpms.github.io

Fri, 13 May 2016

The Firehose Project - A hands-on intro to building modern web applications with Elixir and Phoenix http://phoenix.thefirehoseproject.com/

What @gitlab has to say about @github's pricing changes https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/11/git-repository-pricing/

Sun, 01 May 2016

Great posts at Jazz Age Guitar http://www.jazzageguitar.com

Fri, 29 Apr 2016

Mebe – The Minimalistic Elixir Blog Engine https://blog.nytsoi.net/mebe

Elixir and Phoenix: The Future of Web APIs and Apps? http://blog.carbonfive.com/2016/04/19/elixir-and-phoenix-the-future-of-web-apis-and-apps/

Evan Miller: Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom http://www.evanmiller.org/elixir-ram-and-the-template-of-doom.html