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Pandoc vs. Asciidoctor for print
I’m writing a small book. ~160 pages at 6″ x 9″. I want great-looking print editions so PDF output is critical. I started writing in Markdown, using a few scripts to pre-process for each output format (EPUB ebook, screen PDF, print PDF, HTML) and invoke Pandoc. It worked well at first, but after a year …
New book website
I created a website for my forthcoming book: Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud This book will free your data and empower your users. Send me a note at info@(that same domain name) if you want me to let you know when it is available.
FOSSY 2023
I am honored to be giving a talk at FOSSY 2023. The title is Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud. Event details Description Your data are essential to your life, your agency, and your future. Come learn how to save, serve, and safely share your data at home with a smorgasbord of FOSS. I’ll cover rapid …
GnuCash
TL;DR – it works well for one specific purpose, for a single user. Use it if you like to tinker and are academically interested in accounting. I’ve used GnuCash for many years. I started using it without a sense for how much time I’d spend in the manual and forums figuring out the UI/UX. After …
The Immortal Cookbook
Check out my LibrePlanet 2023 workshop about digital recipe management titled The Immortal Cookbook! Event details Description Join us in the journey: chart your course to digital recipe freedom! Celebrate your favorite home-cooked meals with all their history, comfort, and tradition. Cherish and share these meals with friends and family. Gather and curate your delicious …
Free Software Data Fortress For Your Home
Your data is essential to your life, your agency, and your future. Technological advances in Free and Open Source Software have made it possible to keep your own data safe in your own private cloud. This Saturday I’ll lead a workshop with Rob Smith on how to save, serve, and safely share your data at …
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Be well-informed without anxiety
It is good to be well-informed. About the news, society, and especially our friends and family. With so much information at our fingertips we should be more well-informed than any of our ancestors. Maybe we are, but at the cost of shredded attention, reduced productivity, and anxiety. How can we be well-informed and calm? We …
At SeaGL 2019, free software was in fine feather
Great writeup by Dana Morgenstein with shout-outs to Eva 💖 https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/at-seagl-2019-free-software-was-in-fine-feather
SeaGL 2019 talk – Docker & snap
I hope you can make it to SeaGL today and tomorrow! My talk: Containerized sourcery 🧙 with Docker and Snap (today) Links related to my talk: https://gitlab.com/meonkeys/docker-snap-talk https://gitlab.com/meonkeys/snap-imagemagick https://github.com/meonkeys/docker-imagemagick https://hub.docker.com/r/meonkeys/imagemagick Other awesome talks I highly recommend: Digital Art Characters Step-by-Step with Krita (today) Learning Natural Language Processing through The Regender Project (tomorrow)