In Part III, I discussed fountain pens, and how they revolutionized writing for me.
I thought I was done with my EDC series, until a toot from my FediFriend OrbitalMartian reminded me of one more every-day carry …
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Read MoreIn Part II, I went over the items in my backpack. In this installment, I will talk about a single item in detail: fountain pens.
Growing up, I really disliked writing by hand. It was very uncomfortable, and my handwriting was extremely messy, to the point that my classmates would …
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Read MoreIn Part I, I went over the items in my pockets. In this installment, I will go over the items in my backpack.
Here's what's currently in my backpack:
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Read MoreMy EDC is kind of boring, but sometimes even the most boring items have an interesting history.
I used to carry around a Photon Microlight, but haven't needed a pocket light since 2010, thanks to modern phones.
I also used to carry a mini Swiss Army Knife in my pocket …
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Read MoreThe rise and fall of the popularity of programming languages is fun to watch.
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Read MoreThis article is written based on a prompt I shared with a friend a couple weeks ago. You can my article from that "round-robin" prompt exercise here.
Since neither of my fedifriends have written their prompts yet, I'm actually borrowing the idea I gave Amin to write:
I'm going to …
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Read MoreI enjoyed The Linux Cast's recent video tackling the perennially-debated question of "the best Linux" distro, and I wanted to present my own somewhat tongue-in-cheek version of a recommended Linux Distro List, but more like a dis-recommendation list.
So here are some distros I (kinda sorta) do not recommend …
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Read MoreIn Part I, I discussed the state of "Native Messaging" services in FOSS Android forks/builds, and why RCS might never be coming to these OSes.
What does that leave us with? Well, SMS and MMS, of course, but using what client?
Unfortunately, there is (of course) no one good …
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Read MoreNow that I've piqued your curiosity with an reference to a children's book I've never actually read (because I'm an alien, apparently), let me pause the narrative train by carefully defining some terms:
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Read MoreA fedifriend mentioned me yesterday on a post about a recent kerfuffle regarding some decisions that Mozilla has been making, particularly in regards to buying an advertising company (and integrating advertising into the browser) and adding "A.I." features into recent builds of Firefox.
I had intended to reply with …
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