Computers are a tool that you can use or be used by. I have written about my tool-taming tactics before, including blocking distracting websites in my hosts file. My “checking” function is the
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Because it contains details of my medical history, this is a members-only post. If you have a seasonal rash and the cost of membership is a financial hardship, please contact me so I
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While shopping for a new Linux laptop, I attempted to use Google-style advanced search operators on eBay, without luck.
All references to such things seem to have been removed from their docs. But
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I do a lot of Ghost theme development, and have to swap which theme is running on my local install all the time. The Ghost admin interface takes a lot of clicking to
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I found a used Pinebook Pro on Craigslist for $100 CAD, invented some flimsy excuse[1], and bought it.
Then I went much farther down the rabbit hole than I expected, trying to
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I propose a new standard for the blogosphere, along the lines of Derek Sivers’s “Now” page: the Things I don’t know how to do list.
Criteria:
1. Maintain a more or
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Six months since our last newsletter, we’re back with four new posts.
Wise counsel from someone who everyone wants to hire:
The Art of Resisting PromotionThe default course is: as soon as
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I have tried several methods of learning Spanish that didn’t work:
* Spanish in 30 days (book & CD combo)
* Duolingo
* Memorizing vocabulary with Anki
* Listening to Language Transfer Complete Spanish
* Listening to
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This is yet another small companion piece to my Ghost on Fly tutorials.
In my last tutorial in the series, I showed how to back up your Ghost blog hosted on Fly.io
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I’ve been using computers for a long time, and for most of that time, I’ve considered myself a power user — the kind of person who bothers to use keyboard shortcuts in
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Sometimes, you just want to link to a specific segment of a YouTube video. Deep-linking to a specific start time in a YouTube video is fairly common — but sometimes specifying an end-time is
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Everything is connected. It’s a truism because it’s true. To move a physical thing, everything touching it must move also … and then the neighbours of the neighbours must make way … and
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