In a recent blog post, I wrote about how I was looking outside of systemd for new alternatives to the ubiquitous init system, and I think I've landed on something that will work for me in the sort term and still allow me to use nix and NixOS.
Let me preface by saying I wish I didn't have to use any smartphones at all, let alone make choices about the kinds of software I'm allowed to put on them.
I recently contributed to NixOS and nixpkgs to help bring Drupal, my favorite web platform, to NixOS, a staggeringly complex, declarative, reproduceable Linux operating system. Here's what I learned along the way.
I recently got a hold of a piece of software that I had been eagerly awaiting the arrival of for some time. It came in the mail via USB flash drive and proudly advertised that it would only work on Windows and Mac OSX. Knowing a thing or two about computers, I (perhaps, over-) confidently ignored these instructions and set out to make it work on Linux.
It is easy enough to set loading to "lazy" for HTML image elements. This make the images load only when the user is about to see them. But how do you get similar performance gains for images that get loaded onto the page using CSS?
"Lost in the sauce" is largely how I would describe my whole digital life. Instead of wallowing in the sweaty nerd energy of it all, what if I talked about it?
This Thanksgiving, my family was asked to bring a book (or a title of a book) that they wished they could read again for the first time so they could swap books with another person.
Cartes Noires is a creative writing exercise to help you craft the plot for a mystery novel in about 30 minutes using only a standard deck of playing cards and your imagination. With it, it is possible to make an elaborate, whodunnit story on the fly.
I made this experimental poem by reading the alphabet aloud forward and backward. It is also what 2000's era chat bots sounded like when they talk to each other.
