Shit, it’s July 21 already? Time just slips through my fingers. Here’s some links I liked or found engaging in the past few weeks. I felt extremely called out by If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living? by Andrew Taggart at Aeon.com. Some of these considerations have been at the back […]
Category Archives: Tech-geekery
Linklog for June 29, 2019: Massive Link Dump
I haven’t done linklogs in a while, but I have been storing and retracing links, so have a massive link dump: I try not to linklog paywalled posts, but this Patreon-only post from Colleen Doran is worth it to me: Consistent Focus, Consistent Action. It is the first of a series in which she discusses […]
I have too many projects, so I started some more projects
Over the past few weeks, updating Obsession Du Jour and the Patreon has more or less fallen by the wayside as I found myself too busy with my day job and other activities to spend an hour at a time on writing text. While occasionally something like an illness happens that prevents me from working […]
Learning Jekyll
I’ve been trying to teach myself how to use Jekyll to see if it can help me set up static websites that aren’t dependent on a CMS with a database. My needs have changed and for the state of my webcomic site today, WillowCMS is very over-engineered. For example, I no longer allow comments on […]
Linklog: Catching Up With A Lot Of Stuff
I let the linklog slide again for about what, a week? I’ve been a little under the weather while also working on commissions as well as catching up on a backlog of errands. But I have been using my Mastodon.social account as a scratch pad using both a Content Warning and a tag for links […]
Links for January 19: Crumbling pachyderms, Ugly Fruit
The Mastodon is Crumbling post. To be honest, I can’t give this my full attention right now, but it’s here in case I want to read what it actually says. The Ugly Fruit thread from Sarah Taber on Twitter, who understands agricultural supply chains better than most.
Links for the day: Chronicles of the Witch Queen, Lynxlet, Sweet Potato Curry
A new Chronicles of the Witch Queen story, Castle of the Gods, started on Wednesday at the slightly more relaxed schedule of three per week. Read it, starting at this page: http://cotwq.thecomicseries.com/comics/314 I’m pretty much only the webmaster for this webcomic at this point, but I love it for how surreal it’s gotten. This one […]
OpenBSD on an old iBook G4
Through Matthew Graybosch‘s initiative to collect links to personal websites from his Mastodon/Pleroma friends, I found Bobs Tech Site and it turned out this site had an article on something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: installing OpenBSD on an iBook G4. I have an old iBook G4 that I had loaned to […]
Curious Photoshop/Mac/WiFi behaviour
One for the Mac-heads in the audience. I’ve been trying to cut distractions while working on comics, which means that I turn off the WiFi on my Macbook now. However, this doesn’t work as well as it should, because the following behaviour occurs: If I switch off WiFi (AirPort) and then fire up Photoshop CS […]
Scribus sucks, but its suckage can be defeated with patience
What is this? It’s a screenshot of the open source DTP program Scribus on a Mac with the 143rd episode of The Corby Tribe open, as it is being prepared for presentation on my Drunk Duck mirror. The image is a Photoshop file with adjustment layers, and is not rendered correctly. However, it is at […]