Good grief, Apple. A gigabyte? How many lines of code did you change? 
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Denial
You and [his son, who’s a doctor] are very big into truth, truth, truth, yes, yes, yes. But denial – respect denial. It’s very important in the human architecture. It’s what we do when we can’t face what the world throws at us. It’s what helps us get up in the morning, until enough mornings pass that we begin to walk upright in the world.
—Ron Suskind, quoting his friend Max Pluskey
From a talk at Calvin College talking about the story behind his book, Life, Animated.
(Cross-posted from my other blog.)
ttf-mscorefonts
I had to reinstall Linux on my laptop and ran into some trouble with the ttf-mscorefonts package. (It runs some text-mode click-wrap license agreement, except in my case, there was a problem where it didn’t run properly. I probably hit the wrong button at some point.) Anyway, this is not a new problem:
- ubuntu4questions has one answer
- askubuntu has another
I picked the latter one because it didn’t involve dpkg.
Dave Winer says we should do more short-form blogging. Why should we give it all to Twitter?
Sexual Relationships: Theology and Practice
(This post has been over to my other blog.)
I wouldn’t take it gift-wrapped
Office 2016 for Mac now available as stand-alone software. I’ve been exposed to Office 2013/Windows, and to get anything done, I have to use Office 2011 on my Mac.
I wouldn’t even install Office 2016 on my Mac for $100 even if it left the old version intact. More likely, though, it clobbers the previous version. In that case, I’d only do it for the cost of a new computer—so I could throw out the old computer with Office 2016 on it.
The Solar System – to scale
A charming video created to help people visualize the solar system. It’s hopeless, but sometimes the attempt is worthwhile anyway:
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.
(Cross-posted on my work blog.)
System Admin Notes
Windows 10 is, in some ways, worse(!) than 8.1 was. (Really!)
Since I don’t have time to keep sinking into Windows, here’s what I’ve been doing:
- Is my PC suited for a 32- or 64-bit OS? ubuntu or windows.
- Am I running 32- or 64-bit linux?
- HowtoGeek: How to dual-boot linux on your Windows laptop
- How to boot and install linux on a PC with UEFI secure boot (and What you need to know about UEFI vs. BIOS)
- How to install Dropbox and Chrome
- Then, after you install: 8 things to do, 11 things, and 15 things and maybe some utilities like these 11 utilities.
Once you’ve done all that, remember to install an ssh server:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Also, install rbenv (and ruby-build) and a ruby or two. Plus your favorite gems.
Tech Links
OOPS. I periodically publish a tab sweep. Sometimes (like now) I draft and forget to publish it. This post should have been published in mid-June.
MuPDF is a better PDF reader because it opens large PDFs faster than evince.
Geeqie is an image viewer that offers side-by-side comparisons of images.
Apple announces Swift 2 with new language features, open source. I looked it over, and I think I still like Ruby better. But it’s clearly an improvement over [[Objective] C].
A gallery of everything new in iOS 9. The Podcast app might not be quite as aggravating as before. And they’ve realized that iOS 8’s version of a shift key was a disaster.
Cute: the old After Dark screen saver implemented in CSS.
Datamation: The best features of Libre Office Writer. After using Word 2013 with it’s worst-idea-ever “Ribbon” I’m thinking of switching.
Tech Tab Sweep
Krita appears to be Gimp spelled sideways, but cross-platform, or more accurately, Gimp:Photoshop::Krita:Painter.
OpenSSH best practices. Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite” takes SSH security so seriously that after you upgrade, you can’t log in remotely. Even if you tell it you want to.
Use Ruby to make your graphs look hand-drawn, like the ones in XKCD.
Via RubyFlow: A set of step-by-step TDD tutorials, a library for importing real-world CSV data.
Gruff: a library for creating beautiful charts in Ruby.
Honeybadger.io: Use capture3 instead of backticks: capturing I/O from shell commands. I should be using pry instead of irb, and when I switch, here’s how to work with exceptions in pry.
Microsoft promises that you can clean install Windows 10 after upgrading. Hanselman confirms, but look at the questions in people’s comments. Someone at Microsoft should be asking, why don’t they trust us, and what do we have to do so they start?
Google’s new build tool: Bazel. What are the odds I’d switch when I’m still learning Rake?