Notes for December 9-22

The native feel and feature set is nice and all, but breaking ssh sessions because of reporting itself as xterm-ghostty and hoping it will be fixed by updating terminfo (which will never happen on 99% of current systems) is not something that seems like a good idea. My immediate workaround was to set term=xterm-256color in the config file (there...

Here’s a funny story: Some time ago, I contacted TerraMaster to inquire if they were interested in having me review their products, but they declined. And then, unexpectedly, I got my hands on one – in particular, I got a F4-424 Max, which is currently one of their most interesting SOHO products due to its dual 10GbE ports and a powerful CPU....

Last year was tough, but all manner of things ratcheted the overall difficulty to eleven, and here we are. AI and Machine Learning I had to start with this because it’s been a major theme of the past two years, and it’s not going away–plus I have been working extensively in this area in both my day job and personal projects. And yet, other than...

This is a spottily-updated list of miscellaneous resources I’ve come across dealing with data visualization in several forms. The Graphs and Graphing and Visualization pages will be subsumed by this one in the fullness of time. Ratings, when available, are entirely subjective based on my interest. Resources Category Date Link Rating Type Formats...

I don’t mention Acorn much these days, but I’ve been using it off and on since 2007 and it is a genius piece of work, delivering a lot of power in a very small (less than 100MB!) package. Since Apple just acquired my current go-to image editor (Pixelmator) and they have a mixed record where it comes to acquisitions (i.e., goodness knows what they...