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Portable Vim in Powershell
Because I have finally been able to replace my work laptop. Because I’m allowed to install software on a server, but not on the laptop in front of me. Because corporate security policies are insane....
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Quote of the Day: Not All Change is Progress
There’s nothing wrong with helpful new features, but too often those helpful new features come with a price. They require relearning how to do things that you did reliably the day before. And even the...
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Unplugging
Yesterday was Data Protection Day, which seeks to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. Data protection and online privacy are issues that I have tended to think about...
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Learning Genie with Project Euler
I searched for Gnome Genie and was attacked by a Gnome Ninja. I’ve recently started playing around with the Genie programming language. This is a variation of Vala but with a more Pythonesque syntax....
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Freedom to tinker
Talking about the way in which his embrace of Free Software has changed his attitude to computers, Bruce Byfield reaches a conclusion that rings very true for me. All unknowing, I had wandered into the...
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Smarter Coffee and Systemd User Units
One of the particularly handy features that systemd supports is the ability to set up unit files on a per-user basis. You simply put the unit files in your home directory and tell systemd to start...
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Merging multiple PDF files with pdfunite
One thing that using Linux has taught me is to always look for the simplest solution, because it probably exists. As it turned out in this case. In this case, I was emailed a five page PDF document...
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Shotwell ate my photos
I’m not sure what happened, but when I launched the Shotwell photo management application a couple of days ago, it started deleting my entire library of photos and by the time I realised what was...
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Editing RPGLE source members with Vim
I am very fond of the Vim text editor and will use it, out of preference, whenever possible. This includes writing RPG (and, obviously, RPGLE) programs on the IBM i. The only downside here is that,...
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AZERTY Keyboards: A Rant
[Note: I have deliberately not checked any of the spellings on this post so that you can feel some of my pain.] Even though I have been in Belgium for the best part of thirteen years and, even though...
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