Tuesday, August 20, 2024
The revolution will not be on desktop. A tale of of two iPads, which ends in revolutionary musings. For a long time, I owned a terrible XPS13 (1250U CPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB Storage) which had major cooling issues. It throttled to the point of unusable and even general Windows navigation was a chore. I …Saturday, June 1, 2024
Over the past few years my desk has changed. Here, i chronicle it. I lost the dates when i left my last web platform, but i kept the pictures.Monday, July 24, 2023
Originally posted on reddit - Links. For print. I was asked about embedding link into groff documents a few weeks ago, I wrote this outlining how that is accomplished and while its still the ideal way to deal with clickable links there is a better way of dealing with links for printed documents (my …Monday, July 24, 2023
Originally posted on Reddit Clickable web Links in your final PDF! Today I was asked how you create clickable links in a PDF document, the truth is I had NO IDEA! I use groff for long form documents and it had never occurred to me that this is something I would want. So I went and found out! The …Monday, July 24, 2023
Originally posted in Reddit - Looking for Information about GROFF an man page doesn’t go far enough? (info groff) Its a struggle to find good information about GROFF, guides/examples and help files are few and far between but fear not the GNU project has your back… I had been working …Monday, July 24, 2023
Originally posted in Reddit - Looking for Information about GROFF an man page doesn’t go far enough? (info groff) Its a struggle to find good information about GROFF, guides/examples and help files are few and far between but fear not the GNU project has your back… I had been working …Monday, July 24, 2023
Originally posted in Reddit - Basic TABLE (including examples) Tables are a little confusing at first (mostly due to example files being terrible) The below is an easy to understand example of a simple table. this one uses ‘;’ as a separator and is all encased in boxed borders, both …Monday, July 24, 2023
Originally posted on reddit - A Basic guide to formatting (babies first groff) Groff Guide The following is a very slimmed down list of basic groff commands using the MS macro set and Table pre-processor Examples of usage follow. COMMAND Explanation .TL Title .AU Author .NH N Heading (N = …Friday, July 7, 2023
I recently had the urge to play some old Megadrive (Genesis) games. I dusted off my old Retoflag GPI Gameboy style handheld and, well, just sort of blinked at it for a moment. It was big and chunky, like a Gameboy, which was great but it has over a minute boot up time, and takes AA batteries. …Saturday, March 19, 2022
I know this sounds like an odd question and more of a tweet/toot than a blog post, but seriously, what happens in people’s brains when they go to write an amazon book review? Most products have this sort of review “Product was excellent, delivered fast and works as described, would buy again.” – See …