Tag Archives: Tech

Ransomware: Prevention & Recovery

Posted on 2020-07-13 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I mentioned Backblaze and their newsletter with an article about Tips for working remotely. That newsletter has a link to an older article that discusses how to prevent a ransomware attack and recover if you … Continue reading →

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The 500 Mile Email

Posted on 2020-07-10 by jcs

I vaguely remember writing about this before but I just saw a reference to it and it’s such a great story that it should be repeated every few years. Trey Harris tells a funny and instructive tale about how even … Continue reading →

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On Amazon and Walmart

Posted on 2020-06-23 by jcs

I like Walmart. They have a wide selection of products that are easy to find and have prices that are lower than many other stores such as the local supermarket. But I hate going there. The aisles are crowded usually … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Is Dark Mode a Good Idea?

Posted on 2020-06-19 by jcs

Those pesky Irreal minions are at it again. They can’t let a Friday go by without trying to bring up the light-mode/dark-mode debate. Alas, they’ve succeeded again. After the last time, I had a discussion with them but they were … Continue reading →

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Monitors

Posted on 2020-06-18 by jcs

Nikita Prokopov has a very informative post about computer monitors and how they influence our programming experiences. It’s a long post that begins with an excellent tutorial on how monitor resolution effects the display of characters and the various mitigating … Continue reading →

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Fixing Email

Posted on 2020-06-17 by jcs

From time to time I read a piece by some pundit proclaiming that email is dead; that it’s been supplanted by texting, Facebook, and other social media. Such pieces are, of course, ridiculous but it is true that the usual … Continue reading →

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A Graphviz Go-By

Posted on 2020-06-12 by jcs

When I want a graph like this: my go-to tool is the dot command from Graphviz. There’s a simple input language to describe a graph that’s easy to write by hand but most often I generate the input programmatically. It’s … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: iPhones and Sanity

Posted on 2020-05-08 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Aaron Ogle’s experience in de-Googling his workflow. Although I didn’t mention it, he wrote that part of his de-Googling efforts were to replace his Android phone with an iPhone. It was, he said—undoubtedly tongue-in-cheek—an … Continue reading →

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One Person’s Take on Dark Mode

Posted on 2020-05-03 by jcs

This doesn’t quite rise to the level of a Red Meat Friday item—at least I don’t think it does—but some folks do take the light-mode/dark-mode debate very seriously. Over at Gizmodo, Victoria Song reignites the debate with an article telling … Continue reading →

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A Workflow For Writing A Book

Posted on 2020-04-18 by jcs

Vladimir Keleshev has an interesting post that details his book writing process. It is, in a sense, low tech in that it uses very basic tools: Pandoc, Make, and Vim. He writes in Markdown and uses Pandoc to covert that … Continue reading →

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