30,000 years of hurt | Idiot Joy Showland
There is not an England.| Idiot Joy Showland
What I Do and Don't Miss About MacOS| rldane.space
Time for another little hardware review. Background I've been getting complaints that the small, inexpensive bluetooth earbuds (Skullcandy Dime XT/XT2) I had been carrying around for the past five years have pretty poor audio quality during phone calls (likely no microphone noise cancellation), so I started looking around again …| R.L. Dane
Our comrades clearly see the necessity of building the party, but in their eagerness, their analysis considers that party already built.| The Red Clarion
Just now, I was doing what all great bloggers do when they run out of (easily) actionable blog post ideas: I got around to cruising my RSS feeds! To be fair, there are many wonderful bloggers that keep up with their RSS feeds and dutifully read and comment on all …| R.L. Dane
Greetings! If you are reading this, it means you were selected by TODD (the Temporal Observation Directorate Division) for a temporal excursion. Since you're a member of the Computing Sciences History Reading Room, you will no doubt want to brush up on how to procure computing resources in your assigned …| R.L. Dane
I'm talking mostly about terminology, but of course, when in doubt, "I don't want your dumb app." So, as I briefly alluded to in yesterdays blog post, most mobile apps are pretty terrible. They're generally chock full of spyware (trackers), and are inherently user-hostile. But I want to talk about …| R.L. Dane
Across three decades working in I.T., I've had the opportunity to observe some spectacularly good and spectacularly bad managers. I feel like writing an homage to the three that were the most memorable. --- Name obfuscation methodology I will be using the real name of the individuals mentioned, but I …| R.L. Dane
In Part I, I discussed the state of "Native Messaging" services in FOSS Android forks/builds, and why RCS might never be coming to these OSes. What does that leave us with? Well, SMS and MMS, of course, but using what client? Unfortunately, there is (of course) no one good …| R.L. Dane
FOSS ROMS and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad State of Native Messaging on Android| rldane.space
I know these people; I know them in my bowels.| Idiot Joy Showland
