Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon
Day 33 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
A few days ago, a comment went by in my timeline saying something to the effect of, “How have I not known about watch for this long?” That's not an exactly quote, but I didn't write it down at the time. Just in case there are other people out there who haven't heard of watch, let's look at it quickly.
Day 32 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
Once upon a time, a long time ago, I read something somewhere about “port knocking”. I thought to myself, that's going to be something that's just everywhere in a few years. Turns out I was wrong about that, but I really wish I wasn't just because it's such a cool idea.
Day 31 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
I'm going to guess that most of the people reading this know that I'm one of the admins of the Fosstodon Mastodon instance. If you don't know me explicitly from there, I still feel like I talk about it enough that most people have figured it out by now. I want to talk about one of my complaints with Mastodon.
Day 30 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
The first time I laid eyes on the Internet, the WWW was barely a thing. Other services ruled. Things like gopher, nntp, and IRC. Now the many people don't even know there's a difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web. It might be time to go back to the good old days.
Day 29 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
I talk about #Mycroft often. I think people have probably realized that I'm a Mycroft fan. One of the responses I've gotten is that the individual would love to try it, but doesn't have the hardware to make it go. That's actually not true.
Day 28 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
Throughout the course of my day I read a lot of things. Articles, emails, books, web pages, toots, etc. Often times I find myself wanting to revisit material because I can't devote the attention to it I want to at the time I've found it. More often than not, I just leave the browser tab open until i can come back to it. Sometimes I use a note taking app to keep track of details for later.
Day 27 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
When I finally caved to Kev's nagging about spinning my blog back up again, I chose Write.as has my platform of choice to get that done. I have reasons why, and maybe someday I'll talk about it. Today I want to talk about something pseudo-related. Markdown syntax highlighting.
Day 26 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
Today Twitter Support announced a new feature that just might sound a little familiar to people on Mastodon. Strangely, I'm going to talk about Twitter today.
Day 25 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
A long time ago, back in 2001, then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Developers Developers Developers!!) called Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches”. In recent days, now Microsoft president Brad Smith has admitted they were wrong about that, and they've been working on Windows Subsystem for Linux to bring some of the functionality of Linux to Windows. Now, Microsoft is going to be making running Linux GUI apps in Windows easy to do, and I think it's a great idea. Kinda.
Day 24 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
Tonight when I was writing something else for the #100DaysToOffload, I got an “emergency” call from work that something was wrong. This happens a whole lot more than I'd like it to, but tonight it got me thinking about alerting strategy. I have some thoughts on the matter.