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My own Linux challenge

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Open source

Open source++

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Programming

“Bloat” doesn’t mean what you think it does

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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/Programming

Photography made me a better programmer

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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, ...

Programming

Commenting your code

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Espresso/Product and service reviews

DF64 Gen 2 coffee grinder

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Fifth Amendment/Supreme Court

Pardons aren’t without consequences

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Health care

What everyone gets wrong about health insurance

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely encountered the story of Brian Thompson, the murdered CEO of UnitedHealthcare (herein, “...

Virtualization

Installing Volumio into VirtualBox

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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....

Programming/Technology

Why we “romanticize” past developers

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

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