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.

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!

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

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…

I recently learned about a new messaging app called Delta chat. It is based on top of SMTP/IMAP and works with an existing email account so you can chat with anyone who has email already (everyone?) regardless of if they have Delta chat. Basically, it is an email client that uses a UI similar to…

I am skeptical of all of these cloud bookmarking services that have started popping up. Some examples are Pocket, Wallabag, and Instapaper. It seems to me that if you use these services as advertised (bookmarking articles you don’t have time to read at the moment) then you are going to end up with a library…

Just found out about the 402 HTTP status code: Payment Required. I wonder if it could be used for a server and client to negotiate payment for a particular page. Perhaps a site could display a paywall notification with 402 status code asking visitors to pay a one time fee to access the page.

There are lots of sites that try to push you to use their mobile apps, Quora is one of the most egregious offenders that I have seen. If you try to browse more than a single page, they block you with a non-dismissable pop-up telling you to install their app. Why even bother having a…