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clacke
Host ID: 311
On GNU/Linux since Amiga Watchtower, using it as my primary OS since Debian Slink, been on Ubuntu ever since it fulfilled the derailed UserLinux dream.
These days I'm running Ubuntu-Gnome, but I'm considering NixOS+Guix as my primary OS, with a Debian chroot for the pieces that are missing.
You can find me on the Free social web at clacke@libranet.de.
email: hpr.nospam@nospam.clacke.user.lysator.liu.se
episodes: 30
Released: 2021-04-20. Duration: 00:16:55. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: open source, free software, communal software, cooperative technology, politics, philosophy.
If open source misses the point of free software philosophy, what point is free software missing?
Released: 2021-03-30. Duration: 00:15:24. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: ubuntu, input methods, guix, chinese, emoji, eurkey, pinyin, jyutping, cangjie.
I'm adding some input methods to a standard Ubuntu 20.04 install
Released: 2020-06-23. Duration: 00:15:02. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: webcomics, rfc5005, atom, rss, feeds.
fluffy, Jamey and I go on for another ten minutes about how webcomic artists feel about feeds
Released: 2020-05-26. Duration: 00:35:08. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: rss,atom,rfc,interview,feedreader,podcatcher.
An interview with two passionate RFC 5005 fans on how to handle big Atom feeds
Released: 2020-05-12. Duration: 00:24:01. Flag: Explicit. Series: A Little Bit of Python.
Tags: python,pyenv,virtualenv,virtualenvwrapper,poetry,pipenv,pip-tools.
How to manage your dependencies and environment isolation when developing in Python
Released: 2020-04-28. Duration: 00:15:31. Flag: Clean. Series: Tabletop Gaming.
Tags: game, board game, xmpp, remote, network game.
How to do physical distancing while avoiding social distance using digitized boardgames
Released: 2019-05-21. Duration: 00:04:41. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: success, self-care.
The answer may surprise you!
Released: 2019-05-14. Duration: 00:08:04. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: 5g, health, radiation, pseudoscience.
Apply Betteridge’s Law of Headlines to find out the answer
Released: 2019-05-07. Duration: 00:11:01. Flag: Clean. Series: Bash Scripting.
Tags: bash, perl, scope, dynamic scope, lexical scope.
A lesson on dynamic scope vs lexical scope
Released: 2019-04-30. Duration: 00:16:31. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: life, kids, work, medicine, future.
It seems life goes faster and faster and then turns around and goes slower and slower
Released: 2019-04-17. Duration: 00:21:16. Flag: Clean. Series: Bash Scripting.
Tags: bash, coproc, subshell.
clacke discovers bash's coproc keyword and explains some toy examples
Released: 2018-08-22. Duration: 00:57:06. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: flow-based, actors, fractalide, racket, ocap, mud, programming.
In which I sit down with cwebber and try to keep it short, but end up with an hour of tangents
Released: 2018-05-29. Duration: 00:21:32. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: laptop, linux, ubuntu, nix, cryptocurrency.
... in which clacke takes months (or years?) to buy a laptop, but comes out pretty pleased
Released: 2018-05-22. Duration: 00:13:52. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: nix, styx, static site generator.
For the Fractalide web site, we are using Styx as a site generator. Here's a bit of how and why.
Released: 2018-05-15. Duration: 00:12:01. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: stow, package manager.
How does stow work, why would you want it and what are its limitations?
Released: 2018-05-08. Duration: 00:10:57. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: msys2, cygwin, windows, command-line, pacman, package manager.
In which I talk briefly about the history of MSYS2 and Cygwin and why you might want MSYS2
Released: 2018-05-01. Duration: 00:12:08. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: sparkleshare, static website, gitlab pages.
In which I describe my setup of SparkleShare and GitLab Pages to maintain a static website
Released: 2018-04-24. Duration: 00:03:28. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: android, recording, hpr.
In which I update the recommendation from HPR 1877: Just use Audio Recorder!
Released: 2018-03-13. Duration: 00:18:47. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: racket, nix, racket2nix, fractalide, soundscape, hongkong.
It's a triple whammy! It's functional programming, functional package management and soundscape!
Released: 2017-09-25. Duration: 00:28:53. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: tcl, tk, history, languages, community.
... in which I'm reading Where Tcl and Tk went wrong, by David N Welton, posted on 2010-03-30
Released: 2017-06-07. Duration: 00:16:26. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: guix,linux,nix,sysadmin,development.
Here's how I use Guix in my day-to-day. Fleshed out audio of a comment on ep 2198.
Released: 2017-01-04. Duration: 01:23:31. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: guix, linux, sysadmin, os, package management, nix, scheme, guile.
I sit down with Chris Webber and we ramble about how great Guix is
Released: 2016-12-29. Duration: 00:32:08. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: china, taiwan, roc, prc, politics, trump, history.
In which I respond to "I don't get this whole Taiwan/US/China thing"
Released: 2016-12-09. Duration: 00:08:21. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: advice,programming,job.
I expand on a list of one-liner advice to myself 20 years ago, that I posted on pump.io. Part 2 of 2
Released: 2016-12-08. Duration: 00:14:04. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: advice,work,post.
I expand on a list of one-liner advice to myself 20 years ago, that I posted on pump.io.
Released: 2016-11-24. Duration: 00:13:15. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: matrix, irc, federation, mobile, im.
I give a quick overview of the challenges of IRC on the go and how Riot and Matrix solve them for me
Released: 2016-11-15. Duration: 00:21:12. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: git, fossil, rant.
In which I take an IRC rant to audio and look at what's really wrong with git.
Released: 2015-10-19. Duration: 00:15:12. Flag: Clean. Series: How I Found Linux.
Tags: Urecord,Slirp,Amiga,turbolinux,guix.
I'm so old I actually installed Watchtower on an Amiga and I review 22 years of Linux distributions
Released: 2015-10-13. Duration: 00:06:18. Flag: Explicit. Series: general.
Tags: android, hpr, audio, recording.
How quickly can you get an HPR recording done? 10 minutes including app install! Sort of.
Released: 2015-10-12. Duration: 00:09:21. Flag: Clean. Series: general.
Tags: federation, python, microservices, gtd, yakshaving.
Why I'm making an HPR episode, and why I'm making a vaporware social network engine
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