The new microsoft is not new, and it poses a greater threat to the open source community than ever before. Microsoft, under Ballmer, had forgotten their golden rule: "embrace, extend, exterminate." Sataya Nadella has realized microsoft needs to take a couple steps back to recapture the modern computing landscape. The…
Gnome3 has been a struggle. Unity has been a struggle. I've been a steadfast ubuntu/gnome user through the process. To make the desktop workable for me, I do a couple things. 1. Disable online lenses from unity to prevent constant irrelevant upsell content from being displayed in the applications…
I've wandered many paths in technology. I never wanted to be a professional programmer because I perceived the focus to always be on quantity > quality. Aside: recently, my brother shared an excellent article with me that illustrates some of the aspects of professional programming that I fear; programming sucks [http:…