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Lou on Leisure
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Lou reflects on his first retirement and how it wasn’t what he expected. I think many of us have a fantasy of what we’d do if we didn’t have to work because money wasn’t an issue anymore. While I’m sure I’d take some time totally off to reset myself I think I’d work in the
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You Don’t have to POSSE with your Blog
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POSSE says to publish your thoughts on a property you control like your blog and then syndicate elsewhere. It’s what I do here, but I’m on social media so it’s not an extra thing I need to worry about doing or an extra place I need to interact when I publish my content to Mastodon
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The Office it too damn busy
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I am tempted to use time away from the office to catch up on things that I should have done at the office if I weren’t so damn busy. – David While David is reflecting on his sabbatical, I think this roles into most jobs. I recently worked most of a weekend because stuff needed
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Some Rules for Good Software Development
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Rules help set constraints on our work and while I don’t advocate rigid adherence to rules, they’re there to make you think and help you decide if you’re making the right decision. Here are 10 good ones to get you started. I like number 7 as it helps reduce needless complexity. It’s easy to wish-cast
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Chris – Blogs are for Humans
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I agree with Chris the more of the writer is in the blog the more I’m interested. Yes I want to hear about your golf weekend with kids, or your struggle with technology or your garden. Yes I do want to read your longer writing that more philosophical. I want to read interesting things from
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Maximum Time Usage, Your Notes and Blogging – 3 Threads
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This is brought to you by members, become one to keep the content coming. Full Maximum Capacity Time Usage Dami Lee is talking about slow reading here but I took exception to one comment in the beginning of the video which I linked to. She talks about reading books that had a big impact on
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Glasp for reading later
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After talking about Pocket alternatives a few other options have been recommended. Including NextCloud bookmarks (which Marcel talked about in the link above) and then Glasp. Out of the gate I don’t see an extension for Firefox so I’m out on that point alone but there is something more sinister lurking…AI. Specifically the AI Clone
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Tragically Hip Discography
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This one was hard to decide, hard enough I listen to only Tragically Hip albums for 2 weeks. The Tragically Hip seem like some Canadian institution. I remember when Gord Downie died a few years ago I was disappointed that I had never got to see them in concert. After all that time I’m no
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Pocket Alternatives from Marcel
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While Marcel has been using Pocket for a long time recent instability had him check out other options. His list includes: To that list I’d add Linkwarden and even Obsidian Web Clipper. I’ll be recording a video on my experiences with Wallabag, Linkwarden and Obsidian Web Clipper in the next few days. They all have
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Thunderbird’s 20th Anniversary
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I’ve used Thunderbird off and on for years, but with my move to Fedora fulltime just over a year ago Thunderbird is again my main email client. During that year I was asked to donate when I downloaded the client, and again today on their 20th Anniversary. I donated both times and wouldn’t mind a
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