"2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop"
As someone who moved to Linux as the primary operating system, glad to be part of the 40%.
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Domain Takeover Underway
I finally decided tonight was the night to scrub my Wordpress install and move Glowbug to trickjarrett.com proper. We've reached the point where I'm playing whack-a-mole trying to find things which are broken for publishing or broken image links, etc.
All previous links should forward seamlessly!
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"Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It’s Boring"
It does indeed! My home daily driver is a laptop that runs Ubuntu currently and I never have an issue. Clive Thompson, the author of the linked post, is one of the few Medium blogs I follow regularly.
Though, interestingly, he uses Microsoft Teams as an example to his point as how well Linux works these days. I recently tried to set up Teams on it and discovered the Linux version only works if you are using Teams with a company-managed account system. So, my outlook.com email meant that it didn't work for me. The software is there and works but I suspect this is Microsoft lessening the threat of bad actors spamming or utilizing Teams for malicious intent.
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New blog site idea (this digs back to an old old idea I had years ago.)
What if, instead of an author defined templated design, instead the blog presents you with options to build its layout to your liking. Not just overall layout, but lets you filter posts, etc.
Then, when you hit the site, it loads XML/JSON of posts and builds the page as you laid it out. Also, with this, it knows the last posts you saw, so it puts the ones which are new since your last visit front and center.
It (relatively) minimizes the server hit as you're being served an html page, js file, css file, and the post xml/json file.
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ronincyberpunk.com
In 2002, my senior year of highschool, I registered ronincyberpunk.com. The domain which would be my first "real" blog. As I recall, I initially launched it on MoveableType before eventually migrating to Wordpress. The domain was meant to be the cool-hacker vibe sort of thing.
I let the domain lapse in 2008. I was back in Florida after college and I wasn't pushing for that same sort of online identity. I had transitioned into the 'trickjarrett.com' identity. As time went on, I regretted letting the domain lapse. It held nostalgia for me, and when I went to re-register it, and found it had instead been squatted on by domain speculators, I was appalled.
I would check on it over the years, and it kept being held by a domain speculator until it looks like it was finally released. I re-registered it today. No real plans for it, but I feel better having my old formative online stomping grounds back in my control.
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Twitter preparing to launch 'Notes' blogging functionality
I will be curious to see how this rolls out, both to the user, but also to the API backend. Will they keep this a platform only feature (such as polls, which you cannot create via the API) or will they allow folks to blog to Twitter via a 3rd party app?
I can see cases for it both ways. But it seems to me that democratizing it via the API is a net value for Twitter. Allowing publishers on other platforms to push content onto their site provides more reason for users (in this, consumers of that content) to stay on the site.
If that is the case, then the question moves back to the writers to decide what is either posted only to Twitter, or to both, or to just their owned platform. I don't know where I'd fall on that yet. On the one hand, while I have TrickBot make its twice-daily posts on @trickjarrett, I also have @TrickWords, and I could see that becoming the Twitter blog account essentially. Or, given their new community functionality, I could create a blog community, and potentially write the blog notes into that community for people who have opted in to that segment of what I would post.
It's an interesting question to explore.
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I was reminded this morning of the random blog projects I've started in the past. For example, in 2013/14 I did a Tumblr blog that looked at book covers and the variations that exist for books. Or that I started a blog which was a narrative telling of a game of FTL, talking in character. That one only made it 4 posts before I gave up. I still like that idea, maybe I'll give it another go sometime. I could also do that idea for other games, like Slay the Spire or something else.
I miss the era of experimental blogs. I still remember 'Bloggus Caesari' which was an early blog that was written as if by Julius Caesar, basing it on the letters he actually wrote.
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From the Archives: The Evil F-Word: Fine
It's easier to convince us that what we're feeling is happiness, simply because we can't tell the difference. If I'm not in active pain, then I must be happy, right? I must be fine, right?
I originally wrote this post 7 years ago, but it is more applicable today than ever before.
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Slate Star Codex Returns
Slate Star Codex was one of my favorite blogs over the years, and then a few years ago the author deleted it all in an effort to circumvent some press coverage he was going to get about running his blog. He was gone for the better part of two years and this week he has returned to writing online. His writing style is so enjoyable and the post does a lot of ruminating on what caused his decision, how it affected him, and who was in the wrong.
It asks a lot of questions about online rights and whether we have the right to anonymity online, or perhaps better, self-determination of public knowledge.
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