Mon Aug 18
Geordi gets it right Ever since I came across Gnome Do, a quick launcher application for Linux that brings up whatever files or applications I want if I simply start typing, I've used such launchers on every computer I've owned. Currently, since I use KDE, that means I use KRunner, which works similarly.
I’ve seen several people, including myself, talk about not having something to blog about. When we undertake these blogging challenges, we often suffer from the idea that every blog post needs to be “epic,” or perhaps “revolutionary.” I’m not sure about other people, but I feel that pressure. The pressure not only...
What This Is About Ever wonder why some relationships feel good and others feel terrible? Or why the same person can be great in one place but awful in another? This guide helps you figure out what’s going on. The Three Types of Relationships Think of relationships like a traffic light with three colors: Red …...
The State of CSS Survey results recently came out and I was asked what I was my pick of the year in the CSS world and turns out I had an opinion. I told Sacha, My pick of the year is all the font clamp generators that people have been creating and sharing. What’s great about them is that they are all so different so...
Me, and what seems to be every traveller who makes it out this far, have come to park their ships in geosynchronous orbit above Verde Cap. Most of the visitors are from beyond Bennu, which makes for interesting chatter on the public channel. We all came here to sit like barnacles and wait for Verde's outer moon to...
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Napster founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker in 1999; via trailer for 'Downloaded', a 2013 documentary by Alex Winter. On December 6, 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued Napster, the first major MP3 file sharing platform of the internet age, for contributory and vicarious copyright...
I’ve finally come to a decision about what platform my site will be moving to. No, seriously. For real. After going back and forth more times than a tennis match,...
The inherent instability of working night shift aside, I've been pretty busy straightening up my life by straightening up my usual environment. Therapy cleaning, if you will. To avoid recapping the last couple of years, after my mom died I shipped a large number of shipping crates of stuff (paperwork, research, data...
Moving the feed from index.rss to index.xml After reading Google is killing the open web I started to style my RSS feed using XSLT. Unfortunately, web browsers won't open a file with the extension "rss", but just offer to download it. Therefor I have to rename my RSS feed. Old name: index.rss New name: index.xml The...
I’ve recently read not just one, but two different blog posts arguing for roughly the same thing. To summarise them; You have a finite amount of time to learn new things, and so you should not only focus that time toward learning things that actually matter, but you should also only try and learn things that are...
La inițiativa Danemarcei, multe state membre ale UE cer ca WhatsApp/Signal/etc. să fie forțate să inspecteze toate pozele și linkurile noastre folosind inteligența artificială (IA). Daca IA are orice “îndoială” că acestea ar putea fi pornografie infantilă, atunci poza ta, locația ta, numărul tău de telefon și alte...
I believe I have heaped praise upon data journalism outfit The Pudding before, but I'm doing it again because the design of this piece about the best way to dice an onion is so clever. They made a red onion font!Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way