My own Linux challenge
Plenty of tech YouTube channels have taken a plunge into daily-driving Linux. And I’d actually been wanting to do so for the longest time. The holdup hasn...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Open source++
Given what’s been coming out of open source projects in the last few months, with waves of purges and “cleansings” to rid projects and reposit...
“Bloat” doesn’t mean what you think it does
So a few weeks ago I come across a post calling the engineers of old “lazy” because a decision to not record all 4 digits of a year led to a worldwi...
Photography made me a better programmer
Actually, no, it didn’t. But that doesn’t mean the two never overlapped. Like most photographers out there, I do post my work online. To Instagram, ...
Commenting your code
My philosophy on comments is pretty simple. They’re for explaining outlier situations, not handholding. You don’t write comments to point out the ob...
DF64 Gen 2 coffee grinder
About a year ago, I wrote about the Timemore Chestnut C3 manual grinder and explained that, while it’s a capable grinder, I bought it merely as a stopgap ...
Pardons aren’t without consequences
The President’s pardon power is unconditional and unquestionable. He has the power to pardon anyone for crimes against the United States. And in some last...
What everyone gets wrong about health insurance
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely encountered the story of Brian Thompson, the murdered CEO of UnitedHealthcare (herein, “...
Installing Volumio into VirtualBox
Three simple steps: Note: Follow these steps on your VirtualBox host. Download the Volumio image Go to their download page and download the PC (X86/X64) option....
Why we “romanticize” past developers
Let’s look at this: And quoting it directly in case it disappears later: People like to romanticize the devs of the past. “People just don’t c...