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05-52-2022-Music Flows

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It still amazes me to this day how just finding one new thing can lead to many more things, if you follow the flow. I like to listen to music when I work and at the moment most of my work is writing code so that, at least for me, rules out listening to things where I would need to pay attention like a podcast. I switch between a few sources of music, some local play lists and the occasional streaming service or two. No,

04-52-2022-HTML VS MarkDown using HTMLy blogging platform

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There are several things I like about HTMLy and only one or two things I think could be added or improved. One of those things I really like is the ability to enter your post in different and mixed content. This text I am just typing into the browser and letting it decide on how it displays it. Just plain text. You can also enter the post as HTML or Markdown and it will render it the same, examples are below. I know at

03-52-2022-Moar Changes and a Move

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Free Time Well Spent I was finally able to have the time to hunt down an issue that I had been living with since this time last year, mainly, this blog. While I do enjoy writing software and it has almost become my full time (paying) job at this point, it does leave me not wanting to work on my own stuff in the evening. I finally decided to spend some of my "free" time to figure out just why this blog software would not

02-52-2022-Funding-FOSS

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Why Open Source Needs A New Funding Model So a developer makes a little project to scratch an itch, get it working to a point that seems stable enough and publishes the code to a repository. Some time later one of a couple possible things happen. 1) The code/project is abandoned for any number of reasons, lack of personal time to work on it, burnout, moving on to other things, lack of community support, job change or

01-52-2022-Looking back and Forward

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A lot has changed in the past few months. I picked up a major project in June but it didn't really start up until September. And wow did it ramp up! It is almost a full time gig hour wise and looks like it will run until May or June of this year with maybe longer but with less hours doing maintenance and other things. I have been on a search for a different blog platform as I don't have much time these days to work on my