I had not intended to learn git. But, as part of my hankering to run a terminal-only computing, I needed a way of getting files from one machine to another in a terminal-friendly manner, and, well, git looked like a reasonable option. So I started to learn git. “Pro Git” was an excellent guide I read “Pro Git” to help me get started. I thought it was excellent: clear, with practical examples, and good at setting out the fundamental principles of git in a comprehensible (to me!) way. L...| Neil's blog
I am writing this on the train back from a wonderfully successful day in London, teaching 70ish lawyers about the fundamentals of technology.| neilzone.co.uk
As I’ve said, ad nauseum probably, I like my secondhand ThinkPads.| neilzone.co.uk
wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: I set up fleamarket.neilzone.co.uk using flohmarkt. Over the years, I appear to have acquired quite a lot of tech-related stuff.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve upgraded my desktop environment to GNOME 47. I haven’t spotted anything obviously different about it yet.| neilzone.co.uk
I thought it would be interesting to jot down some of the reasons why I’m still so positive about computers and the Internet in 2024.| neilzone.co.uk
I have run my own mail server for years now.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr A Linux installation on a USB stick, onto which I can copy my presentation slides, so that I can boot my laptop from that USB stick when I come to give a presentation, thereby leaving my actual drive (and thus my documents, email etc) encrypted.| neilzone.co.uk
I had a play around today with a GoPro on a small tripod, to take a series of photos of Lego I was moving around, to experiment with stop motion animation.| neilzone.co.uk
I use Jellyfin for media streaming, and also an arrangement based around mpd and ncmpcpp for my office.| neilzone.co.uk
This morning, I wondered “Could I cope with a terminal-only computer?| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: for a lot of things, yes, but not everything| neilzone.co.uk
I might be a bit late to the party here, but I stumbled across WinTile-Beyond recently, and it is rather useful.| neilzone.co.uk
Sometimes, less is more. For me, that’s especially the case when I want to avoid distractions.| neilzone.co.uk
I saw a tip on the fediverse which, annoyingly, I cannot now find.| neilzone.co.uk
I read an interesting blogpost today, entitled “I quit my job to work full time on my open source project”.| neilzone.co.uk