Category: Links of Interest
The Ultimate ThinkPad?
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Great video on upgrading an older ThinkPad to something highly usable today. Also props to this guy for keeping that older MacBook Pro running for so long. Goes to show you that with a bit of effort you can take “old” tech and make it very useful today. We don’t need to chase the newest
WordPress does feel bloated for blogging
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I know I do a bit more than blogging here now, but WordPress does feel bloated so this post about moving to Pika does sound nice. In fact I did move to Statamic once and then came back to WordPress though I’m not sure why now with the drama going on and the ad crap
Koillection – self hosted collection tracking
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Maybe it’s books, DVDs, or dolls, we all often have something we collect. If you’re looking for a way to track those things without giving your information to some corporation check out koillection.
AI and Python are winning
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So AI has lead Python to be the top programming language but I wonder how long this will continue? It’s easy to spin up some Python AI thing from a blog post and put it on GitHub, only to never look at it again. My GitHub repositories are full of projects like that, they seemed
Matt on Professional Tools
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Matt contends that professional tools need 3 things: This is why I stick with Neovim. It just works the way it’s supposed to work all the time and doesn’t update with new tools (like some AI shit) because the company thinks it needs to get AI into its tools. Finally, I can create any workflow
Tool Discography
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I listened through the Tool discography this week and my favourite album is Ænima. Next week I’ll do Guns N’ Roses.
Blogging challenges for November
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Lou shared some blogging challenges for November. Could I write 9,000,000 or more words this month?
Godspeed looks nice
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Godspeed looks like a task manager I’d like. But I daily drive Linux and while the web app is nice, I’m not a fan of web apps as the main interface for a tool. Right now I’m using nvim-orgmode again and not worrying about it on my phone instead opting for a notebook to record
On Saying Goodbye to WordPress
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Chris has just written about leaving WordPress due to it’s current governance structure. He ends with a plea to those still working in WordPress: I do, however, ask that you please consider the effects your actions have on others and be careful not to lead new victims to future abuse. I currently work on a
And 11ty enters the chat
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A few days ago I wrote about Chris going back to Hugo and had a list of site tools I’d look at then asked for suggestions. Well the only suggestion others made was 11ty which is a static site generator based on Node.