BlogFlockI'm absolutely addicted to the Reddit's UK Personal Finance forum - where people mutually support each other through the difficult world of managing one's personal finances. It's a great community and full of people eager to help others.
In amongst the confusion around pensions, tips for budgeting, and complaining about…
finally got bad enough that it needs fixing, and today i could use a fiddly project to occupy my brain
sadly i forgot that this design has the components mounted on the bottom of the PCB which means desoldering all the switches, so ten minutes was a very unrealistic estimate
[Andrew Losowsky at The Markup]
Andrew Losowsky discusses the impact of AI on his hiring process:
“Within 12 hours of posting the role, we received more than 400 applications. At first, most of these candidates seemed to be genuine. However, as the person who had to read them…
After the pretty good Her Majesty's Royal Coven, the excellent Shadow Cabinet, the law of reverting to the mean hits the conclusion of Juno Dawson's Witches of Hebden Bridge trilogy.
By now you know the tropes - Bitchy-Witches, 90s pop-culture references, and wry chapter titles. It's all done…
Zachary kindly invited me to answer a few questions about hosting the IndieWeb Carnival. Running for three years now, the IndieWeb Carnival has been the source of endless inspiration for me, sparking both long periods of thinking as well as writing blog posts. Even when I have not written an…
At EdinburghJS this week, Colin mentioned the idea of “kind software.” This got me thinking. What would make software kind? As I write, I notice the word “kind” reminds me of the term “user friendly,” which has associations with software being simple to use in the context of…
This has been a busy week!
Earlier in the week, I attended my first EdinburghJS Meetup, at which I met many wonderful people. As always, I am a bit nervous before going to events. What if I can’t find the location? What will I say? Those fears usually leave my…
Every Friday, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society. This week's edition is late!
This week's links discuss the future of software development, how the EU's attempts to build sovereign tech must involve helping people to create businesses around…
Notes to myself because I keep forgetting.
tl;dr Unzip it into the /opt/ directory.
I want to install Filezilla - so I can SFTP files around. Sadly, the Flatpak version is unmaintained and the version in apt is out of date. Luckily, you can download the zipped version.
Their…
[Laurens Hof at Connected Places]
This post by Laurens Hof speaks to a bunch of issues at the intersection of our current moment in history (I haven’t yet found the words to refer to it that don’t sound like a euphemism) and the open social web.
ICE joined…
A fleshed out story, one you just might want to read.
A brotherhood of owls praying to the debugger God.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AdeptsOf0xCC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@AdeptsOf0xCC</a></p>
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
a blog by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
cmdr-nova's personal blog and home on the indie-web.
Maker of web things, Lego builder, sometimes blogger, sporadic pizzaiolo, fortnightly podcaster. Cat dad and human dad.
I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I write about software development, technology and music.