Here are some ideas for productive and enjoyable things you can do with your laptop while you are hanging out during the holidays.

Install fish shell on macOS Mojave with brew. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

We tested ten different microSD cards on three different Pi models to help you find the fastest one for your Raspberry Pi.

Why do I blog? Because I like to write. That's my spontaneous answer. And it's true—but far from the whole truth. It became obvious when I chose to wri...

In this AMA post, Nigel asks me about the about the federated web and whether I think there's a future for it. It's an interesting question as I'm heavily involved in the federated web by running this blog, as well as Fosstodon and 500.Social.

a small life log

Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days. Platforms are doing their absolute best (worst?) to …

¿Alguna vez os habéis descargado un EPUB que ocupaba chorrrocientos megas? El motivo es, muy probablemente, que las imágenes van en alta resolución. Como un .epub no es más que un .zip con una cierta estructura, es posible descomprimirlo, reducir el tamaño de las imágenes y volver a dejar todo …

Hi All! 🤗 For the summer holidays, my family and I went to France. On our way to the Atlantic Ocean, we shortly stopped in Chartres, a lovely town southwest...

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

Una frase de The Minimalists en el cuaderno de citas en tinta.

"«Creo que será más importante que nunca que #Mastodon y #Fediverso no sean operados centralmente desde los EE. UU., a diferencia de casi todas las demás plataformas de redes sociales que existen. » — Eugen Rochko, al hilo de la victoria de Donald Trump en las elecciones del martes 5 de noviembre de 2024."

I don't like letting go of stuff because I might just need it one day.

“An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”

I used to never share how I felt, not even with my closest friends. Blogging about it would have been completely unthinkable. On the outside, everything ...

I launched a Cable Network. If you’re in the Ellijay Telephone Company coverage area, you can watch it on channel 176. If you’re not, you can watch it online or on roku (or even embedded on this post!) The whole thing is a Community Centered, local first production and broadcast, powered entirely by free software. Click through to watch the stream and learn more about how and why I built it.

Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list - falsehoods-programming-time-list.md

I liked reading this a lot, Your Writing by Rands “• Less than 1% of your writing will be life-changing. • 3% will be trivial to write. • 4% will...

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise [Cory Doctorow]Cory Doctorow discusses how he reads writers like Molly White: "This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant,