February Twenty-Fifth is an extremely obscure holiday: Grandma is sleeping in the other room Christmas is only ten months away I think it can still be »
A few MVNOs have good deals on Sprint hotspot devices and data plans. Ting sells a $25 hotspot device with a no-contract plan for 30 GiB »
Cox seems to schedule their automatic payments weeks in advance. No matter what you do in the interim, you can't stop that train. If you must »
Let's compare privacy policies to see what the various map smartphone apps (Google Maps, Waze, OSMand) collect about your location. Locational data is impossible to anonymize. »
If you do lots of writing, or scratch out lots of pages, you'll likely want to buy notebooks with a minimal price-per-sheet. Here's my short-list! Apica »
Due to recent credit card fraud, I was issued a new credit card with a new account number. Within a week, I logged into Cox Communication's »
I'm an advocate of static webpage generation, as the simplest way to implement many simple websites. Combined with modern version control, it is a truly elegant »
I rarely use Wifi to connect a computer running a Unix-like OS to a network. Maybe if I did, I would have long ago learned of »
I've been running Windows as a desktop OS forever, using PuTTY to connect to a myriad of hosts running Unix-like OSes. It wasn't until I started »
Debian is my favorite Linux distribution. To make life a little easier for myself, I decided to give Kubuntu a chance to become my main OS »
K-9 Mail. That's all you need to know. Use OpenKeychain for OpenPGP support. Enjoy these excellent FOSS! <3 Notes Avoid BlueMail, as it uses their »
Diluted bleach is a great value for a sanitizer. Food-safe disinfection Note that this is insufficient for 2019-nCoV disinfection. See the next section. If you dilute »
The cellular network operators in Montana are Verizon and AT&T. If you're a T-Mobile customer, then you can roam on AT&T's network »
Ghost is one of the best blogging platforms, in my opinion. It's open source, so you can personally audit the code, if you wish. More importantly, »
Dreams of an unfettered existence, with only a landline phone at home, occasionally tempt me to ditch my cellular phone. A phone with nothing more than »
Can I Update My Old Signature? You cannot modify an existing signature. You can revoke the signature. This revocation can be pushed to public key servers. »
Yubico offers these continual discounts for Yubikeys: Anyone with a Github account gets 20% off all keys, up to five. Education faculty, students, and staff get »
Ghost has brief documentation of configuration of HTTPS support. If you want both HTTP and HTTPS accessible, but want to force HTTPS for the administration back-end, »
The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he heard it) that she »
I've been struggling with writer's block lately. I think the block is the result of the confluence of many forces—perfectionism, feelings of inadequacy, and »
I care about the longevity of what I write by hand with fountain pens. Pigment-based inks are permanent, but can clog fountain pens, and are pretty »
It's surprisingly painless to setup Debian as a dual-boot OS on a laptop! I went with XFCE as my window manager for now. I only had »
Many of my projects at home use embedded computing, sometimes an Arduino clone, but usually a Raspberry Pi. For the Pis, I like to clone an »
7mm is the most common line spacing for ruled notebooks. Sometimes I find this spacing a little too generous. Here is a survey of high-quality notebooks »
This article discusses how to make your own DIY setup for carbonating liquids. This project been documented nicely by others on the web, including Popular Science. »