Category: maology

  • Hosting Update

    Hosting Update

    Next year I’ll be approaching 25 years of blogging, and for the first time ever I made the switch to commercial hosting for the blog. My previous server was getting old, requiring a major Debian update or two. The outdated PHP version made hosting WordPress more and more difficult. So, after much contemplation (a.k.a. procrastination),…

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  • Lightning

    Lightning

    Lightning sliding into my notifications twice today – first zap I got on Nostr, thanks mate! And the thunderstorm was just the usual this time of the year in Ticino, not too bad

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  • How far by train

    How far by train

    How far do you get by train in 5 hours? Great interactive infographic! https://www.chronotrains.com/de?zoom=6&lng=8.32&lat=43.74&stationId=8503000

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  • The Project Saboteur’s Handbook

    The Project Saboteur’s Handbook: There are many ways to sabotage a project. Recognizing them is the first crucial step to counter them. In this brief handbook I will present a number of ways of sabotage that I have encountered in various projects. This post is the saboteur’s handbook. Tongue in cheek…

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  • Double Fine Double Feature

    Double Fine Double Feature: The story of Double Fine is such a feel-good story, but it almost wasn’t. A few years ago, if you said the name Double Fine aloud, you were talking about what could have been, or what should have been. You were talking about how you fell in love with games all…

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  • A Brief History of Slashdot

    A Brief History of Slashdot Part 1, Chips & Dips: As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration, I’ve decided to post a story here telling the tale of the transition from Chips & Dips to Slashdot back in 1997. A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions: When last we left off, Slashdot had…

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  • Automatically Add Pocket Favorites to WordPress Blog

    I finally got around to creating an IFTTT recipe to automatically push my Pocket favorites to this blog. My queue was overflowing… so much read, so little time to go back and write about it! Let me know if you’re interested in the recipe. I’m holding off publishing it for now, until I know it…

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  • TOUCH TIME: Digital Watch with Touch Screen

    I bought this one: TOUCH TIME: Digital Watch with Touch Screen by Donald Brewer. Next generation digital watch with a touch screen, Smartphone-like watch apps, “always on” display, and you never need to charge it.    

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  • The Search For Meaningful Work

    Reminded me about my recent self: One of the key components to finding long term happiness is doing meaningful work. But in the modern world, meaningful work has become increasingly more difficult to find. A couple of hundred years ago, a person could look back on a day and see the field they planted that…

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  • Thunderbird No More

    Mozilla announced that Thunderbird will no longer be actively developed by the Mozilla folks. Because they don’t see innovation in the email fat client space. Coincidentally I stopped using Thunderbird a couple months ago in favor of a Roundcube based webmail solution for my private email needs (corporate is still Outlook), so I would tend…

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