While online retailers struggle to maintain profit with increasing competition, this one tactic is a sure sign they are going to lose customers.
Retailers – don’t make it hard to checkout!
LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command
antirez, developer on Redis, shares an “easter egg” in the spirit, and perhaps in lamenting the loss of, traditional hacking.
Switching back to MATE
I tried GNOME again for a few days, and after two crashes and progressively slower performance, I’m switching back to MATE on Fedora.
Unsought answers to questions I did not ask today
It’s amazing what questions you find the answers to when you’re not looking!
Note to self: check out git-bug, fossil, vimwiki, forgefed, and ActivityPub
It’s no secret that HackerNews is one of my daily (sometimes hourly) reads due to the excellent signal-to-noise ratio and deep hackish nature of many of the contributors. However, even I am a little impressed at the depth of information found in this one discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782121
Trying out the new Gutenberg editor for WordPress
The latest update to WordPress comes with the addition of a new, experimental editor appropriately entitled Gutenberg. It brings with it the concepts of blocks which brings a sense of structure and modularity to your blog posts as opposed to a single monolithic chunk of editorial.
The Video Wars of 2027 – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Patent and copyright law collude to create a dystopian world – fiction or future?
I am now the Director of Software Engineering at SUPER-H Analytics
I have accepted the position of Director of Software Engineering with SUPER-H Analytics. Please read on for more information on my journey to this point and acknowledgment of those that made it possible.
Empathy and leadership
A comment I made on LinkedIn may be the kernel of something I would like to expand on more.
Canon 120MXS 120MP CMOS Sensor – YouTube
Canon 120MXS 120MP CMOS Sensor I used to get unequivocally excited about technology like this, but with all the dark, Orwellian prospects of how this tech can and often is used, my excitement is somewhat tempered by a dosage of concern. Even in the video, they highlight using this for surveillance explicitly as one of the main advantages. Now, of…
GScribble test
Before this, I had tried a desktop WordPress client called Lekhonee. Now that I’m “back”, searching through Fedora’s repo I discovered another client named GScribble. Out of the box, the one feature advantage I found with GScribble is that it supports tags, whereas I did not find that possible through Lekhonee. The advantage of a desktop client is that it’s…
Return from blogging hiatus
After “taking a break” from blogging for the past four-and-a-half years (that’s “fancy talk” for being to busy/lazy to post), I realized I was, as usual, over-thinking what I should say for my great comeback. So, I decided that I should probably just tear-off the band aid and speak directly to it. A lot has happened since I last posted,…
Griggs Park
Some photos from our outing at Griggs Park in Columbus.
Audacity 2.0 released!
Alhamdulillaah, Audacity 2.0 has been released! As an audio recorder, producer, editor, and overall manipulator, Audacity is one of my most important tools (more on my whole multimedia workflow to come in a subsequent post). I have been using it for so many years, I’ve lost count. Before Audacity, Adobe Audition was my staple, as was Cool Edit (all the…
Fedora 16 “Verne” has been released!
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِي الْحَمْدُ لِلَّه, Fedora 16 has been released! You can read the full release notes or just go straight to the torrents for downloading. See the release announcement after the fold…
Donate to Wikipedia
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحد لله, Allāh has granted me tawfīq to donate to Wikipedia. I wouldn’t mention this except for the fact that I hope others, upon reading this, might give it consideration when they otherwise would not have. A donation to Wikipedia is tax-deductible, so you can save on your taxes or get more back on them (depending…
Moodle 2.0 released!
Alḥamdulillāh, Moodle 2.0 has been released! This is important for a lot of reasons, amongst them being that I work with Moodle on a day-to-day basis in my daytime job, and I use it on some of my own sites. However, most important is the fact that Moodle provides a platform for education that is free-as-in-freedom and the community supports…
Updated to WordPress 3.0.1
بسم الله الرحمن الريم الحمد الله, and finally, I upgrade my blog to WordPress 3.0.1. With two boys, our own apartment, full time work, and a few other things (including some motivation issues) I am finding it hard to keep up old habits, despite a desire to continue doing so. Finding my blog so outdated, though, I wanted to take…
It’s a boy, the sequel!
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحد لله, on Friday, the 11th of Shaʿbān, 1431 (23rd of July, 2010), at 12:40 AM local Columbus time, Allāh blessed us with a healthy, 6 lbs, 14 oz blessing that we’ve named عبد الله (ʿAbdullāh), which, in Arabic, means, “slave of Allāh” (Allāh being the proper name of God). For the very same reason we’ve…
The Absurdity
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم A few days ago, Matt Lee of the Free Software Foundation had asked in the #theora IRC channel for help in making a DVD of the Patent Absurdity documentary. Several people volunteered to help, and I was one of them. I discovered later that this was related to the “Who should see Patent Absurdity?” campaign of…