Category: Links of Interest
Agreed – Your Talk Should Also be a Blog Post
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Jamie has a great short article to support the idea that your talk should also be a blog post. I also think that Twitter/X Thread should be blog posts because threads produce little value. Even on Mastodon, threads should be blog posts. Think of all the content you put on Twitter that is now in…
I Hate Client Side JS Crap
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This article cites React and how bad it is, but really I dislike all client side JS stuff that renders the DOM with JavaScript. Angular…ugh digging out of an old app that no longer builds and was always slow. As I’ve replaced it with PHP and standard HTML we’ve seen reliability go up and speed…
Framework Cyberdeck
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Stuff like this is why the Framework is so cool. I’m just using a normal laptop, but I could turn it into a cyberdeck if I was interested.
Software Defined Radio for Your Framework Laptop
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I love my Framework laptop and how inventive the community can be. Today I saw that there is a software defined radio module people are working on. I have no use for this, but I think it’s very cool.
CAPTCHA Sucks and it’s Not Accessible
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Over 13 years ago I first addressed my dislike of the CAPTCHA. Back then I said that I disliked CAPTCHA to combat spam because spam isn’t the users problem. They’re not getting a bunch of your form submissions sent to them. They don’t care about your problem. The bad part of CAPTCHA is that it…
Twitter Wasn’t Worth the Effort for Traffic
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I saw no measurable difference when I left Twitter in the traffic to my site and neither has NPR. I think that Twitter, and possibly all social media, has got an unearned inflated importance in how much benefit it actually brings in terms of traffic to a site. My top referrers over the last 30…
Was America’s Iraq War Justified?
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According to this video the answer is no. America wanted to invade Iraq to help secure oil assets and to prove that they were “big and strong” after 9/11. This supports my reading from The Shock Doctrine where America weaponizes natural disasters to push capitalist ideas on the public. While the US and Britain are…
What to run on your Synology NAS
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Nick at The Linux Experiment shares some of what he runs on his Synology. I also want to start running my own NextCloud instance on mine.
Kensington SD5700 Ethernet Issues
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Back in April 2021 I purchase a Kensington SD5700 Thunderbolt 4 dock and until today had been fairly happy with it’s function. Today the ethernet died on the SD5700T in the most annoying way. It didn’t just stop working for the computer that the dock is plugged into, it puts out interference on the network…
Framework 13 AMD Review from The Verge
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Here’s the review from The Verge which sings the praises of the 13″ Framework with an AMD mainboard. I’m typing this on a 13″ Framework with 12th Gen Intel hardware and I’m entirely happy with the machine. The biggest drawback I see to the AMD Framework is the port situation. My Intel machine has 4…