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posts that are not organized into a category, yet

• Great article on history of Apple Ireland, and criminals out to get Apple iPhone
• The winners don't always write the history books
• Flip phones' comeback
• Apple product leaks, working at Apple, Apple's facilities
• Interesting article about increasing automation and decline in manufacturing jobs
• Things that women don't want men to do to them
• Vintage GPUs, PCI, and AGP
• Bill Gates famous Mugshot photo
• Nice site for showing political support behind products you buy
• GPT-3 again, tricking people into thinking a blog was written by a real human
• Great LetGrow article on silica gel packets
• IndieWebRung and tildeverse
• The methodology that **DOES** consistently impact software quality
• John Conway?
• Mark Gritter, recreational mathematician, and other writings
• utm_source is Urchin Tracking Module
• Interesting articles about starting a business for beginners
• Interesting story about the Roseau stone and the importance of archiving
• NASA Social and Fashion Merchandising, rocket countdown cancellation
• Escape sequences in YAML multiline strings
• Useful Puppet check tool
• The end of hginit.com, and updates on Joel Spolspky
• Puppet Apache log configuration
• Database of all public Internet photos, and storing all the words ever spoken
• Interesting Wells Fargo story about efforts of home loan assistant when a family was in need
• Twitter for blog comments, and strengths of blogging over Twitter and Facebook
• Bill Gates does **not** have a GitHub account, other interesting facts about Bill Gates
• GitHub Archiving Project Progress and OpenLibrary
• Prometheus blackbox exporter
• Puppet JSON handling, strings, and "shell backticks"
• Very interesting hack to unlock Arwins in Ocarina of Time N64 cartridge
• Prometheus blackbox exporter
• Puppet JSON handling, strings, and "shell backticks"
• Java debugging and diagnostic tools
• Samsung 860 EVO V-NAND SSD compatibility issues
• Number square that adds to 33, age of Jesus
• Policy interventions on parenting effectiveness and open source programming in schools
• The rise and fall of Playstation 3 Supercomputers
• AI Dungeon 2
• Self-driving cars should be called "cryptocybers"
• E911 and VoIP
• Laptop mufflers
• WCAG, the W3C's Accessibility Guidelines
• Good bye jrwhipple.com
• MIDI 2.0 is finally out!
• What happened to Steve Jobs' net worth?
• Woz.org
• Interesting articles on the economics of open-source
• Ken Thompson's historic password now cracked
• POWER instruction set architecture is now open source
• The story behind SourceForge, and some personal reflection
• Wikipedia article on risks of blue light
• Costs of IPv4 are going up due to exhaustion
• Some poetic statements about human time and organizational skills
• Other writings of Ulrich Drepper
• Some geek endeavors clearly put to good use for non-techies
• Why don't we play around more often?
• Inaccurate birth certificates and pension fraud correlated with longer life expectancy
• Gaming systems, complexity, and who is willing to play
• Lego Quatro
• Linus kills the floppy disk driver from Linux
• Missing subjects from my blog
• GNU Health -- Wow, a full health information system and hospital management software suite
• VirtualBox does allow you to hide the VM GUI
• Looking for options for a modern GUI widget toolkit
• Libre bridges to modern chat and messaging software
• How hot is too hot for non-stick pan coatings?
• DuckDuckGo and content farms
• Generate UUID using Linux procfs
• Interesting blog I found from Let Grow website
• Let Grow article relatable to my blog
• Internet Archive versus Project Gutenberg books?
• Tradable quality hypothesis
• AI research on Starcraft video game
• Spinal stenosis? Poor office posture can be a cause
• Interesting review of different print-on-demand services
• Articles on computer ergonomics and eye health
• Some interesting things I've learned from another Twitter
• Viewpoints on assessment and exams
• Electronic curriculum developers
• Another interesting movie... showcasing 1990s era U.S. government surveillance
• Saying "no" to enterprise customers who want to pay to keep an obsolete feature going
• Smartphones not made in China
• Lego train motors and Lego train history
• Advent of Code, interesting convolution problem
• Updates on EOMA68 Earth Friendly Computing Device and RISC-V
• Does consuming alcohol really help you recover from a cold?
• Motor vehicle info on Wikipedia and bike boom
• Things I learned about new Trisquel and Raspberry Pi firmware flashing
• Chart for student motivation-intelligence
• New, more precise technique for genetic modification
• Restoring literal HTML content from the Wayback Machine
• Battle of the giants, competition between Amazon and Google
• More on 24-hour analog clocks
• Updates on Minifree Leah
• Problems with limited data retention policies
• 24-hour format is the worldwide mainstream time format
• Wikipedia article on DJGPP
• Studless home building method and adding lignin to plastic
• Who prefers paper maps?
• Does Mylar contain metal?
• Colemak keyboard layout and other keyboard layout ideas
• Can aluminum foil be recycled?
• Toothpaste tube materials and recycling, and other recycling notes
• Current status of SourceForge.net?
• 118.69 million Game Boy units sold worldwide
• More memory allocation algorithms
• Example of reinvention and popularity
• ARM in the datacenter?
• Can you see shoe prints anytime, anywhere?
• U.S. National Debt
• Interesting HTTP status codes, gag orders, appropriate technology
• Misc. software notes, libre software, GitHub, remote disable
• Multithreading in Emscripten
• Tweaking getaddrinfo to prefer IPv4 over IPv6
• EOMA68 updates?
• What's after Moore's Law?
• Model-View-Culture site
• Installing GNU/Linux, starting at beginner and moving up
• In-browser terminal window in WebAssembly programs
• Contributor convenant and interesting articles on tech diversity
• Why LibreCMC doesn't use GitHub
• Amusement park height limits
• Potato cleaning on electric contacts
• Why Internet of Things will not be a commercial revolution
• H.264 successor, Raspberry Pi libre boot and Odroid, space garbage trucks, SLS patent expiration
• Comparing persistence versus switching strategies.
• Raspberry Pi 1-bit speaker wiring, CodePlex to be shut down, and the "Medium" website
• Reflection on 3D printing, inventory system, human lack of logical reasoning
• Reflection on tech education, professions, hobbies, and Oliver Heaviside
• Reflection on languages, internationalization, Emoji, source code
• What I don't like about cultures without a maintenance habit
• A basic HTML page for displaying a color on any monitor from any computer
• More notes on Darwin cross compiler
• envsubst utility, part of Gettext
• `hdiutil` on Darwin is missing in action
• Reflection on mainstream media, entertainment industry, fiction
• Set up a Darwin cross compiler, to target Mac OS X
• Reflection on where I am in my blogging
• How can you make something boring like system administration fun?
• Questionable documentation
• Setup Vim indent without tabs
• Wireless mice
• More important software notes for web development
• Working around a buggy X11 Emacs problem
• Close a file descriptor on a process through `gdb`
• Emacs Daemon mode
• Convert JSON to XML for debugging REST server?
• Get numeric IPv6 address with `curl`
• Reflection on Wikipedia computer descriptions too easy
• Differences between humans and computers
• Languages, and UCLA's Open Compute Facility
• Lies and lies to children
• Installing operating systems, communities, languages
• Why is it so hard to get a Libre smartphone?
• This nice HTML snippet to attempt to communicate with remote desktop admin spoofers