As someone who spends a lot of time at a computer, you pick up certain commands and tricks which make life easier. Unfortunately, the human brain can only remember so much. And shell reverse search can’t remember everything. To store things like this, I created a “notes” site, powered by…
Everyone knows that you should lock your devices when you’re not using them, but it still shocks me just how few actually do. Leaving your computer unlocked whilst you leave it, whether it be for the toilet, lunch, or to leave the house greatly increases the chance of someone compromising…
Contrary to what some people may think, especially those who have met me in person, I actually give a fair number of presentations. Some with slides, some without. With the lengths of talk I do, not to mention my memory (or lack thereof), I need notes to prompt me on…
The Wiki Game is an online game where you attempt to navigate through Wikipedia from a start page to a goal page using as few other pages as possible. Not long after I was shown it, I realized that I really wasn’t very good at it. After about 15 minutes…
Once I started work, I bought myself a Lenovo Yoga 3 14" laptop, because I needed a thin and light laptop for trains and the office. This came with windows, which within 10 minutes was running Ubuntu Gnome! Ubuntu greatly increased the performance, but I had to sacrifice all the…