Category: Microblog

I’ve decided that I’m going to switch from Grammarly to LanguageTool as my full-time grammar checker.

Not only is LanguageTool open source, but it supports more of the software I use like LibreOffice and Firefox.

The Southwest Airlines boarding system is very strange. They line you up so that every passenger is in order according to a number on your boarding pass. Then you board the plane and pick whatever seat you want.

Personally, I’m not sure how I feel about it. I think maybe it’s more comforting to just have an assigned seat, so I where I’ll sit before boarding.

Gotta say I’ve been upgrading all of my Syncthing installs to v1.1.0 and it’s a big improvement. Syncing happens way faster now.

Check out pacapt which is a wrapper for various Linux package managers (pacman, zypper, yum, etc) that allows you to use apt syntax.

I really dislike those sites that only allow you to sign in with your social media accounts.

I use a password manager so it’s way more convenient for me to just use an email and generated password for each site. Plus that way I don’t have to worry about having a hundred different apps all connected to my Google account with questionable permissions.

I wonder what happened to Debian CUT. On its official web page it says “Paused until Debian Wheezy is released.” but that was years ago.

TIL that Matplotlib natively supports xkcd style graphs.

For some reason in Elasticsearch’s “painless” scripting language the += operator only works for values less than 2^32. Kinda sad given that I’m using it on a long that should support up to 2^64.

Instead, you need to use value = value + 1, which works.

Just found out about Firefly III, which is a self hosted and open source web personal finance portal that let’s you create budgets, manage transactions, and look at pretty graphs.

Personally I’m going to stick with Homebank for my personal needs, but Firefly is good if you need to access your finances on your phone.

Goodbye to the Opportunity Rover. May you rest in peace.