Posts on Alec Scott

This past weekend I taught my laptop to wake up in the middle of the night and create a backup of itself. This is something I’ve always wanted to do but until recently I didn’t think it was possible in Linux. Turns out it’s not only possible but actually pretty easy to setup. Why Create Automatic Backups? In short, because we humans are...

This post is going to suck. I know probably not the hook my college professors would have suggested for an introductory piece of writing, but let me explain. I’ve suffered with perfectionism my whole life. In art classes I’d either sit frozen at a blank canvas or spend twice as long as everyone else tweaking a design I should have finished hours...