I’ve recently switched a lot of my day to day tools. I’ve gotten disillusioned with Cinnamon for day to day use due to a long-standing bug with workspace switching. So when updating my setup to the latest Linux Mint LTS I thought I might try out alternatives.
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Sometimes it's really a bug in the language
A tale of a nasty bug, which turned out to be a bug in the language itself.
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Hobbies stick to it or jump around?
A quick share about my research on hobbies and the impact on brain health.
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Taskwarrior - a task management system without limits
Recently we’ve been reading “The CEO Within” at a book club at Toptal, where there was a chapter on todo tools. I haven’t been happy with my current setup, which is basically Asana + GCal. Yeah, it’s functional, but it doesn’t have that special something and it’s very slow.
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Bodge of the day - NordVPN monitoring script
NordVPN is a pretty good service, however, it occasionally updates the client and the connection goes down. Since the client is so transparent, it can unnoticed for days before I catch up. It seems like a good idea to have a script to outsource that vigilance.
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