• Cloudron

    Cloudron is fascinating piece of software I found out a few days ago. It makes it super easy to self-host a bunch of applications like Nextcloud, GitLab, Wallabag, etc. They all have one-click installers and SSO with your Cloudron user accounts. Also, it supports encrypted backup to various cloud providers like Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces,…

  • Pamac > Pacman

    I must say that I much prefer the Pamac CLI package manager to Pacman. It’s much more intuitive and I’m glad that Manjaro includes it by default.

  • Arduino Pong

    This is a simple pong game I created for fun for the CICS 290M Makerboard running Arduino software. The board is part of the CS Make course at UMass Amherst. Below is the source code, it’s also available on GitHub.

  • Signal Foundation Donation

    I’ve decided to set up a monthly donation to the Signal Foundation. I’m not the biggest fan of Signal and I’ve been critical of the fact that it relies on central servers that can be shut off at any time. But none of the peer-to-peer apps I’ve tried (such as Tox) seem competitive in this…

  • Switching to Krita from GIMP

    I’ve been using GIMP for the last couple of years, but since I’m on KDE Plasma I decided to give Krita a try. It’s actually very capable and I’m going to try using it in lieu of GIMP for a little while.

  • 2020 Recession

    There seems to have been lots of talk of an impending stock market crash recently. Some people seem to be absolutely certain of it for reasons such as the inverted yield curve, high PE multiples, and the trade war with China. I’ve even heard people talk about the “2020 recession” as if it has already…

  • Debian 10 “buster” is released!

    Debian 10 “buster” is released!

  • Charlie Munger interview

    I always appreciate Charlie Munger’s bluntness in his interviews. It’s quite the contrast to Warren.

  • Bitcoin is still bad

    So it’s been a while since I last purchased something using Bitcoin and I wanted to see if the process had become any less painful today. I decided that I was going to purchase a $10 item at a shop that accepted Bitcoin. I head on over to my Coinbase account and purchase $10 of…

  • How to Fix OnePlus 3 Camera Focus

    A few weeks ago my OnePlus 3 camera stopped focusing properly meaning I could no longer take photos of text or scan QR codes. After doing a bit of research on the OnePlus community forums I found that this was likely an issue with the hardware stablization of the camera getting stuck. If your stabilizer…