I'm not a gamer, an introspection
Since I haven't blogged in a couple weeks, I put out a challenge to my fedifriends to help me come up with a subject to blog on, which I would write in the next 48 hours. I put out a poll to decide what to write about, and the idea …
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An unexpected game of "Musical Laptops"
I purchased this laptop I'm writing on now about a month ago. It's a Thinkpad X260 from 2016. I looked it up online, and it was actually shipped the very day (or the day before/after) I graduated college. That's a fun little coincidence to make me feel the passage …
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Organizing photos by geolocation from the command line
Want to organize your photos by gps/geolocation, but don't feel like dealing with a slow GUI app?
That's ok, you can do it from the command line!
precision=2
for file in *.jp*g
do
coord=$(exiftool -c "%.${precision}f" "$file" |grep GPS.Position |sed 's/^[^:]*:[[:space:]]*//')
dir="gps …
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A first foray into miniblogging: `blogme`
I've often enjoyed using my tootme
script to easily toot from the command-line.
The reason I wrote this script is that the excellent toot
utility which I had been using to toot from the command-line would just fail ungracefully if it encountered an error (like crossing the benighted 500-character post …
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Gesture navigation is lame
In late 2017, Apple introduced what was to be a very revolutionary iPhone (by iPhone standards, heh): The iPhone X.
Gone were the archaic huge forehead (how much room do you really need for a speaker, camera, and proximity sensor?) and chin (with physical home button*). In its place was …
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Nearly a Quarter Century of Mobile Phones
A fedifriend, Joel recently shared an older blog post detailing the smartphones he's owned over the years. It's an enjoyable read, so definitely check that out.
Since a lot of my blogging plans the past month got waylaid by various difficulties that I won't get into right now, I thought …
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Amiga: My Alternate History
Just a few days before Christmas Day, 1989, I excitedly carried home one of the greatest Christmas gifts I have ever received. I vaguely remember going with my stepdad to the university computer store (The "MicroCentre," it was called; no relation to the large, currently-extant computer store chain) to pick …
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Use what works for good
Exactly a month ago, I wrote an article challenging the prevalent pragmatist-argument for choice in the digital world.
I'd like to refine that thought a bit further, based on recent experiences.
A little over a week ago, I started crafting an article covering FOSS keyboards for Android. This is one …
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So, I Guess I'm a Vampire, Now
As anyone who knows me on the Fediverse can tell you, I've been a bit of a light-theme snob. (If you're not sure what I'm referring to, I'm talking about whether text on a screen (computer or otherwise) is chiefly light colors on dark colors (dark theme) or dark colors …
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The KGB, the Computer, and Me
Last night, I re-watched The KGB, the Computer, and Me, a 1990 episode of NOVΛ chronicling Cliff Stoll's efforts to catch a West German hacker who was using the Lawrence Berkeley Labs' computer systems to hack into military computers in the late 1980s.
I say re-watched, because I …
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