Dealing with diverged git branches
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called main) have …
Monthly News – January 2024
Hi everyone, First of all, many many thanks to all of you for your donations. As I mentioned in the previous blog post, we received a huge amount of support last month. 751 people donated to us in December for a total of $24,146. It’s pretty amazing! January is strong too with 633 donors already. […]
Great for Privacy, Great for the Environment: DuckDuckGo Is Now Carbon Negative
DuckDuckGo is now carbon negative dating back to our founding in 2008 through 2020, and is committed to being carbon negative in perpetuity. We’ve pioneered new estimation techniques, given our …
Business Class 1.5 with single-server Kamal deployments
Ever hoped for an affordable self-hosting without all the work? You might be in luck! After Stripe subscriptions and Framer-inspired blogging Business Class is getting its final piece of the …
Inside .git
Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone requested a text version, so here it is. I added some extra notes …
Edge ISO available for Linux Mint 21.3
This is a quick announcement to let you know an “Edge” ISO image is now available for Linux Mint 21.3. This image is made for people whose hardware is too new to boot the 5.15 LTS kernel included in Linux Mint 21.x. It ships with kernel 6.5 instead. For information on Edge ISO images visit […]
Reading Kamal configuration
If you configured your config/deploy.yml file for Kamal, you might thought about working with this very configuration outside Kamal. Here’s how. TIP: Checkout Kamal Handbook, my new book on Kamal. …
Business Class 1.4 with SEO-optimized blogging
Business Class is developing at a rapid speed. The 1.4 version brings Framer-inspired blogging. SEO-optimized blogging The major addition for this release is a built-in blog. Everybody and my grandpa …
How to upgrade to Linux Mint 21.3
It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 21, 21.1 and 21.2 to version 21.3. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. 1. Create a system snapshot You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade. If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your […]
Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia”. Linux Mint 21.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of […]
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?
Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have been surprisingly tricky. Understanding how …
Monthly News – December 2023
Happy New Year! Many thanks for your support and for your donations. We received $10191 in November and $24146 in December. The number of donors was also quite impressive: 383 in November and 751 in December! I’d like to thank you all for this and what it means to us. It doesn’t just help us […]
Business Class 1.3 with support for Stripe and an improved CRUD generator
Start your 2024 business on Business Class 1.3! Stripe The major addition for this release is initial Stripe support. You can start, cancel, and update payment details for Stripe subscriptions. …
Some notes on NixOS
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this …
2023: Year in review
Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few of the things I worked on this year. a zine! I published How Integers …
Alternative BigInt ID identifiers for Rails
Rails comes with default BigInt IDs for your primary keys since version 5.1 (replacing regular Int) and offers UUID v4 as an supported alternative since version 6. But what are …
Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETA Release
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia”. Linux Mint 21.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of Linux Mint contains […]
Monthly News – November 2023
Many thanks for your donations and for your support! I’ll be brief today because we’re a little bit late in our schedule. The holiday season is coming and so is Linux Mint 21.3. Linux Mint 21.3 The ISO images for Linux Mint 21.3 are currently in QA. We’re almost done with the testing. We’re expecting […]
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns out the …
2023 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to support privacy, competition, and digital rights
2023 marks DuckDuckGo’s thirteenth year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. This year, we’re proud to donate to …