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Eye-catching graphics in two minutes: a wordsmith’s guide
Graphics have been spicing up my writing and slidedecks over my fifteen years as a writer and a public speaker; the simpler and more attractive the better. But it’s not easy to put them there.I’ve had...
View ArticlePost-Squeezebox audio setup at long last
We stuck with the Logitech Squeezebox system for streaming home audio long long past discovering that Logitech was ending development of the ecosystem but inevitably it started to date. Our Squeezebox...
View ArticleMake your Dreamhost site HTTPS-only
Encrypt all the traffic!Some of the archival Ada Initiative web content is hosted on Dreamhost, and today I re-enabled HTTPS for it now that Let’s Encrypt certificates are available both on Dreamhost...
View Articlefan merinos; or how to have a little fun searching logs
At an engineering training with Greg Sabo in my first week at Stripe, he showed a cute trick: using a shell command to generate two random words when testing.For example, every time I reconfigure my...
View ArticleAll my custom emoji secrets, revealed
I’m known in a few Slacks as the emoji whisperer for adding obviously necessary yet inexplicably absent emoji.Sometimes, as in the case of the nopetopus and the WTF cake, a certain amount of time in...
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If you’re still maintaining a LiveJournal, your journal’s now in Russia
Signal-boosting this news as I know a few people still maintaining a LiveJournal who might choose to delete it, or change their use of LiveJournal after learning about this.LiveJournal is now hosted in...
View ArticleFlickr features I’ve known and loved
As the planning for the sale of Yahoo!/Altaba to Verizon continues, I’m not the only person worried about the fate of Flickr, which has been owned by Yahoo since 2005:Remember to post a picture of...
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Don’t trust Livejournal? Delete your account.
In December 2016, LiveJournal moved their servers to Russia and in April 2017 they updated their terms of use in a way many users find unacceptable.In January 2017, as people considered the...
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Handlers speculative: how to get a random word notifier in GNOME 3
I’ve been using my “fan merinos” random word generating script for a long time, and increasingly regularly as I take part in a few forums with transient pseudonymity and it’s a useful way to quickly...
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Delete your free Slack backlogs!
Why delete Slack backlogs? Slack and other chat software tend to retain conversation history so that you can see and search what was said in the past. This can be very helpful for historical context...
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