Category: Featured
MS Apps are Garbage for the Command Line
I think the idea of having a system to manage installed packages is very helpful when running your operating system. Linux has different forms of repositories, and different methods like snaps and flatpacks. Runtimes…
By lonm
Starcross Academy Notes 1
As I work on creating this new and exciting world and serial fiction project, I've decided that I'm going to share some of my notes as I go! Why not, right? None of these notes will be designed to 'spoil' the series.…
By Will
User Agents for the Social Web
For the last couple of decades, the social web has been in a stagnant state, restricted to siloed social media systems. As these companies seem to implode on themselves or dry out, more open social web systems seem to…
By lonm
MP3Tag Review - Great Music Metadata Manager
I have an offline music library. I've recently been going through my music library and updating the metadata in the files. A lot of my files were getting sorted by VLC into big 'unknown artist' and 'various artist'…
By lonm
I'm back...
So it's been a while - a good two or three months since I posted anything, and perhaps, Gentle Reader, you've been wondering where this aging hippy has been hiding. Truth to be told, nowhere. I've been getting on with…
By travellinbob
Lots of Data isn't always Useful
My phone has a built-in 'smart' battery use monitoring system. Supposedly this helps to optimise the device somehow. The most visible way this works is that it will slowdown charging rates during what it determines…
By lonm
A Journey from Windows to Linux: Making Live Wallpaper Engine Work on Hyprland
As someone who recently made the leap from Windows to Linux, I've been on an exciting yet challenging journey of exploring what this new environment has to offer. Having been accustomed to the polished and user-friendly…
By cheun
Archiving the old SWFs
I was looking through some old folders on my PC and found some old files with the suffix SWF. I couldn't open them, but I remembered that these were shockwave flash files. I used to download them from websites and play…
By lonm
Book Review of The Architecture of Humanism: A History of Taste by Geoffrey Scott
Geoffrey Scott's The Architecture of Humanism offers a compelling critique of modernist architecture by exploring the philosophical underpinnings of architectural aesthetics. First published in the second decade of the…
By oenggun
A Different Psychology
It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.…
By Cezar
New Blog for my experiments in art
I've done a blog before, briefly, but thought it might be fun to document some art experiments...or find a place to journal the things I enjoy in art. This will be that place.…
By susanbjerke