Links Thursday 24 August

Tech: backing up this site with BackwpUp plugin.

Markdown cheat sheet.

Trying to get my daughter’s Kobo reader working again. She let it sit for a while and missed an apparent crucial update. The normal Kobo update process does not work anymore. So I looked around and found that Kobo reader is open source and therefore there is a community helping with questions such as mine.

https://cheat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kobo.html
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145177

These worked like a charm. Does require some tech skills.
I like my Kindle, but this feels much better then the locked in Amazon device

How to get new ideas by Paul Graham.

The site brr about life on the South Pole is fantastic.

Links friday 18 aug 2023; the zen of coding and more

Good to know these hand made USB cables with hidden implant exist.

I am all in favor of editing flat files. They are portable, easy to change editors, platform independent, and very easy to search across, just using your Linux, Windows or MacOS search capabilities. All my notes are in simplified markdown. When I need to generated html from it, this service is so easy: markdowntohtml.

Craid Mod’s article about what I would call the Zen of Coding.

Alan Jacobs’s article on why he doesn’t use Canvas specifically, and warn for data harvesting and ‘surveillance capitalism’. Instead, as I do, he prefers open source en open web technologies instead. Plus some wise words on ChatGTP and how it will not help his students any more than other tools.