By posting today, I managed my first complete year on the year/month archive view since 2005. Here’s hoping there’s many more in the future!
“The Santa myth tells us more about adults than children.”
“This past weekend, just before everything slowed down for Thanksgiving, I got a chance to reflect on my photographic journey. While it is easy to quantify the technological and social success of a …”
“I’m always happy for a friend when they start a job at Apple — but I’m also sad when it means they have to stop their community activities: no more podcasting and blogging, developer meetup organizing, presenting at conferences, writing side-project apps, contributing to open source things.”
“Hans Calmeyer was a left-wing German lawyer — his law license was temporarily suspended when he was accused of being a Communist — who was inducted into the German army under the Nazis, who put him in charge of an office that determined which Dutch people would be deported to Auschwitz during the Nazi occupation.”
“Influencers and regular users are reckoning with what Instagram has done to them. Now Instagram wants us to love it again. “
” I was on campus at UCI today to sign the paperwork to confirm that I’ll be teaching my Game Design class again next year. It also …”
“So…the end of Praetorian of Dorn is something of a controversy. And because I feel like indulging in a fluff discussion, I figured I’d post something that I’ve been mulling over e…”
“Ciaran Iòsaph MacAonghais – a Primary Teacher from Fort William and co-creator of the Scottish Gaelic Duolingo course – takes us through Scottish Gaelic’s journey to Duolingo. [fo…”
I do wish they’d taught us Scottish Gaelic at school when I was a kid, or at least given us the option as an elective course. I’m hoping to find some time to devote to learning it in the new year; one of those “20 for ’20” kind of things. This Duolingo course seems as good a way as any!
“What hardware are you running on? I’ve found it often doesn’t work “out of the box” because the hardware manufacturers don’t Open Source/upstream their drivers so it can’t be released as part of the core distro offering. It is definitely a pain for users, as it’s not like ie Dell would say “don’t bu…”
CC: Jacky.
The hardware is a Broadcom-based chip built in to my Asus ROG motherboard. Broadcom are known to not play well with Linux, so there’s that. The thing is, it used to work fine out of the box on older kernels, which I guess is when my expectations were set. It wasn’t until sometime during 4.x and onwards I started having these sorts of issues on fresh installs.
That said, it’s nowhere near as bad as the old days of Intel Centrino and the kludge that was ndiswrapper. At least I don’t have to recompile my kernel from source these days!