Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Look what just showed up in the mail! My (hopefuly final) page proofs for the standard and premium hardcover versions of my new book The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course!

At first scan things look good. I will give everything a final, careful look, and if all looks good, I could go live as soon as tomorrow! If you can't tell by the overuse of exclamation points, I'm excited!

#writing #publishing #SelfPublishing #linux #linuxjournal

@goatwildernesscollective @jlcrawf Thank you, that means a lot.

@jlcrawf That is very kind of you to say.

After five years of helping to build hardware and software that protects people's privacy, security and freedom, at the end of the month I will no longer be at Purism (I'll still be helping out as an advisor).

For the near term, I plan to spend my time promoting my new book (coming very soon), writing yet another book, and thinking about what's next for my career.

If you have any suggestions for what I should do next, email me at next@kylerank.in (DMs are disabled on this instance).

@Triffen I am not sure about all boosts but even clients like Tootle that don't have a full range of features still let you hide boosts from individual accounts.

@danyork Among the younger generation I'm starting to see a rejection of plastic-coated and petroleum-based fibers as part of their rejection of fast fashion (based on the environmental and ethical issues behind it).

I suspect you might see a return to ironing with a subset of that generation, especially those who choose to invest in more durable, longer-lasting, less-disposable clothing made from natural fibers.

@Kymberly Sorry to hear you have already had so many warp threads break! But this just means by the end of the project you'll be an expert at replacing them!

I leave the pin in until the fabric reaches the breast beam. At that point there should be enough woven cloth in front of it that you shouldn't have to worry about the warp thread pulling through.

@agx Interesting! notmuch seems like a much more sophisticated version of a simple approach I wrote about in Linux Journal many years ago:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack-and-mutt-and-virtual-folders

I should note that this is a slightly modified form of macros I had been using for a LONG time inspired by this blog post:

http://www.jukie.net/~bart/blog/20090608232531

But defaulting to the '.o' view instead of the '.i' view, and adding flagged messages to the '.o' view has made all the difference.

My email flow has dramatically improved ever since I created a macro and folder hook in mutt so that by default I only see new, unopened, or flagged messages. I don't move opened emails from my INBOX elsewhere so no INBOX 0.

Now I only see emails I need to take some sort of action on. I can filter messages other ways, then press '.o' whenever I want to resume this view.

If you are a mutt user, use these two options to your .muttrc:

macro index .o "l(~N|~O|~F)\n"
folder-hook . push '.o'

#mutt

@jorge I'm really excited to see all this progress! You are living in the future.

@landrew @hackaday You are most welcome! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it.

@liaizon Thank you! I wove it on a vintage four-harness floor loom. Unbranded, but I believe it is from the 1960s.

@shawnp0wers That's why I get my media advice from Burger King: they let me have it my way.

For Easter dinner we will be wiping our mouths with overshot napkins I wove last year. I didn't realize until after I wove them that the elongated wheels (due to fabric weft matching warp in thickness) look like a row of Easter eggs.

#weaving #easter

@BadgerBadgerBadger I wrote down the full proccess on my site step by step so you can use my software! https://kylerank.in/tempus_nectit/

I almost forgot to change the yarn color in my knitting clock for today! I had planned to do it before bed, but first thing in the morning works as a backup.

#knitting #easter