The budding programmer vs. the IDE
In this post I’d like to take a moment to talk about integrated development environments from the view of a new programmer. The main question this post will address is whether or not a person that’s new to programming should get to know IDE:s very early on. Spoiler: I don’t think they should.
I recently started [...]
A unix is a unix is a unix is not a GNU
I started dabbling with FreeBSD when I was 14 or so. I had a few friends who were a little bit older, a whole lot nerdier and obviously a tad cooler than me, and they were the people who first introduced me to the world of UNIX. A bit later I started using Debian at [...]
.Xresources and .Xdefaults under Ubuntu
This is just a small tip that I want to share since I had a bit of a headache before managing to solve this.
Problem
You want to use your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file for setting xterm properties and whatnot under Ubuntu, but what worked under other distributions/desktop environments isn’t working. You might have tried fidgeting with [...]
Operation: Revelation!
And let us not forget that the open Internet enables much more than commerce. It is also an unprecedented platform for speech, democratic engagement, and a culture that prizes creative new ways of approaching old problems.
Tonight the We Rebuild cluster is starting Operation Revelation. Quoting Cristopher Kullenberg: [the operation] provides tools and updates for making [...]
Metanet Issue 1 [unfinished]
Input? :)
1. What is Metanet?
Part pamphlet, part DIY-zine, part theoretical toxic dump of a generation, Metanet is a celebration of the grassrootesque culture that had its seed planted the first time somebody realised that language isn’t static. Metanet is an attempt to funnel the interactive chaos that is the Internet. It’s a basket of ideas [...]