Thu Nov 14
The internet in 2010 was when social media conquered the world, as people flocked to Facebook and Twitter to have their say. Much of this was driven by smartphone apps — not just from the established players, but by newer apps like Instagram (the first truly mobile-native photo sharing app) and the location-based...
I had heard of Nick Drake and today I saw that the charming Mackenzie Crook has published a book called, " If Nick Drake Came To My House ". I will have to get to the book later. This morning I listened to Nick Drakes albums, they are beautiful. In my usual obsessive details-orientated way I downloaded all three the...
For the folks that just want the address and don’t want to read the below, You can write to me/send me packages at the below address. Robert Kingett 1321 UPLAND DR PMB 17504 HOUSTON, TX, 77043-4718 Recently, I’ve been really basking in slower forms of communication. When I say, slower, I really do mean, slower. I’ve...
With all the controversy surrounding WordPress at the moment, it wouldn’t surprise me if there were people out there looking to jump ship. I think Matt Mullenweg spat his dummy out, personally; he’s like a smaller version of Elon Musk, and everyone knows what a deluded individual (I’m being nice here) he is. These...
Not that long ago, I was terrible at taking notes. It felt like I had so many ideas, yet I never was able to hold onto them. As soon as they came, they would fly away from my grasp just as quickly. That changed when I started making rigorous efforts to keep my notes in an organized, ready-to-capture system, and...
Starship is a highly-configurable, cross-shell prompt. I recently switched to using it and it sped up my prompt rendering from being noticably slow and taking probably half a second to render to an imperceptible 0.03s rendering time. It actually does slightly more than my old prompt did as well...
Why and when to use ProtectControlGroups The systemd unit setting ProtectControlGroups reduces write access to cgroup or Linux control groups. Information about cgroups are normally available under /sys/fs/cgroup. This setting may restrict a process from writing anything to this directory structure. Configuration...
Recently, I rediscovered Unison. I was also pleased to learn that the tool is available on macOS as a native app. It works well, except one minor limitation: you can create profiles, but you cannot delete or edit them in the app. As I'm not overly familiar with macOS, it took me a while to figure that one out.