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? ...

Google’s internal library Truth has been released as version 1.0. It maintained by the Guava people, and is designed to work for both Java and Android according to their page. (Though not sure exac...

I don’t get it. Typically I cannot handle most modern shows. Take Game of Thrones. Its filled with violence and incest. I’m not a prude by any standard, but it’s simply too much for me. To be fai...

tl; dr… still I enjoy the leaf. The leaf lends itself to my schedule. I still haven’t gotten the fast-charger installed. I will soon. But that means for now I’m just using the trickle charger. W...