I spent almost 5 years at Amazon… and learned so much there. I really do appreciate that experience. The tooling available for developers was quite good, and really focused on providing benefits to...

For the past 15 years, I’ve had CodeHead Systems hosted on G Suites, the Google office domain apps. What was a free service is now forcing users to upgrade to a paid plan. I cannot say I blame them...

My framework laptop continues to impress me. Does it replace my monster desktop? No. (8 cores versus 32, 32G versus 128G) But it can definitely hold it’s own. It’s not fair to compare it to my old ...

Got the framework laptop a few days ago… put it together and installed Ubuntu 21.10. Pretty much everything worked very well. There was some video issues where it would pause a bit for half a secon...

I’ve been using a 2017 pixelbook as my laptop for years. This is the maxed out version; i7, 16G RAM, 512G drive, and runs linux on a VM internally via Crostini. I can run Intelij on it, Emacs, and ...

For years I’ve had this love affair with Java. It’s like an old friend that I can hang with all night. I did stray for a few years with Ruby, but I always came back. Java was stable, repeatable, an...

A friend introduced me to a little rust app called topgrade which runs all the update commands on your system. This is surprisingly good and wanted to post it here. Runs on Unix/Linux, Mac and wind...

I’ve been an emacs user since 1992. Back then I was a chemist… and taking notes meant having a physical lab notebook with a specific page format. The notebook was always away from the experiments… ...

The new website is really just jekyll on github right now. I’m not using github pages itself, rather just running the jekyll engine to build the site and post it on github.io raw. The idea is I cou...

For years I’ve wanted to get rid of wordpress. And I started the Jekyll webiste here years ago… just never got it to where I wanted. Now I’ve made the switch. Is this gonna get me to write more? ...