R.L. Dane

I was reading Clayton's blog post about his habit of buying larger and larger USB thumb drives back in the day (when they were getting rapidly larger every few months), and it reminded me of a wish I had in the 2000s that got only partially fulfilled.

I mean, that's certainly one way of looking at it.

About a week ago, I had the pleasure of answering some interview-style questions from Hyde that got posted to his blog series, Over/Under.

I had only intended to post this as a reply to my own "toot" on the Fediverse, but it actually went over my instance's post limit of 5,000 characters, so here we go!

I was an 80s kid.

The Linux Cast is one of my favorite Linux youtubers, as he usually posts very interesting videos and isn't afraid to share his off-the-cuff opinions of things in the Linux world, yet is usually not toxic, unlike some of that space's more infamous members.

Disclaimer: Right off the bat, I am NOT an imaging expert, a compression expert, or really an anything expert.

I'm talking mostly about terminology, but of course, when in doubt, "I don't want your dumb app."

This morning, I enjoyed a blog post by James Ashford about whether or not it's good to use a bible app.

Content Warning: This post deals with religion and politics Last Sunday, I did something that I really don't like doing.

I, like many, have taken an interest in Daniel Supernault's new Loops video service.

Last night I had one of those "your loved one isn't actually dead!"

I'm noticing a troubling trend among FOSS projects, even terminal-only utilities: no manpages (or a 1-paragraph useless one), barely any help screens, and a link to a wiki site like a github page or "readthedocs."

I came across this set of questions from hyde (a.k.a.

I recall once having a discussion with some friends online about which chat client/network to use for communication, and someone strongly endorsed one over another because it had a better selection of animated reactions/videos.

This is Part IV of the series, "Don't use what works for you."

I was perusing Annie's Love letters 1-5 (from 82MHz' blog post) today, and I was struck with the subject of happiness: Most of all, do not bear the burden of your own happiness.

After the enjoyable success of Writing Month last November, I feel like I want to start a new challenge for 2025: "100 Days To Offload."

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I was reading Deadly Headshot's toot on Christmas day, and it got me thinking about Object Permanence and social media.

Across three decades working in I.T., I've had the opportunity to observe some spectacularly good and spectacularly bad managers.