John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

"A poem is a ouija board without the wood" --Robert Kelly, "Fire Exit" #60

#poetry

I'm all for #security, but seriously, things (like banks) log you out much too quickly nowadays due to "inactivity". Besides being just annoying, I'm sure that encourages people to use crappier passwords.

Props to whomever came up with the idea of putting kale salad as the vegan option on the breakfast buffet but calling it "breakfast salad".

Well my consulting office is now in the back of a retail store. Better Call Sull?

7% of all books sold in the US annually are written by James Patterson.

Roomba but for washing cilantro

(if (equal (system-name) "Nokia-N900-42-11")

..I guess I don't need that line in my .emacs anymore...

#emacs

Please stop naming things X.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206359215/there-s-a-new-hottest-pepper-in-the-world-and-its-called-pepper-x

I've introduced a lot of people to xournalpp (and xournal). I couldn't do my job (current or previous) without it -- best thing I've found for writing/typing on top of PDFs and inserting signature images. If you don't know it, check it out! https://xournalpp.github.io/

It's okay to publish code under a free software / open source license without starting a "project". Not every act of sharing code for others to use and/or build on is a "project". Which is something that studies about how many "projects" are "maintained" should keep in mind.

"The problem with being a book critic, Dorothy Parker wrote, is that the work gets in the way of your reading."

#quotes