I decided to switch from the normal, decades-old filesystem logic of the home directory, and instead use the relatively new technology of systemd-homed. "But Ben, why would you do that?" you may be wondering, and you would be right to do so. But I like to tinker, jump
It isn't quite Christmas yet, but the legislators of Virginia's General Assembly have been at it, pre-filing bills and getting ready for January. Most in the state know that Glenn Youngkin is our current governor, though this is the beginning of his last year, but who
Like has happened throughout the life of this blog, I have changed up how it is served to you yet again. Now I'm on Ghost: good, open-source software that isn't going through the turmoil that has enveloped Wordpress. I'm not going to write the
browserless.io released a rewritten version of their platform in December, and being a foolhardy self-hoster I decided to try and get that working with my changedectection.io setup immediately. This is all hosted on my HP EliteDesk with a 9th gen intel processor I got off of ebay, and
My weekend project has been to set change my personal website from a Wordpress install to a static site. There are a bunch of static site generators out there, and a bunch of content delivery networks allow hosting of those sites for free. Serving up HTML and CSS seems to
Today, I was trying to remember how I did something in Thunderbird, something I knew that I had recently done on Thunderbird on my other computer. I wanted to hide the "Local Folders" meta-account, because all of my various email accounts that I need to collate are all
A couple of days ago, I sent an email to Johnny Redd and Canova Peterson about the book banning actions that the Hanover County School Board were taking. Today, Johnny Redd responded: Needless to say, this misses every point.
Hanover County approves new library policy for books and then bans 17 titles Dear Mr. Redd and Mr. Peterson, Mr. Redd, I am shocked, disappointed, and appalled at the action taken by the Hanover County School Board last night. As a parent of two young children, one of which who
Google Reader died in 2013, a moment that many Very Online rue. Google killed a service that was able to connect people easily to all of the information sources that they wanted to follow, and even if there wasn't a social network, or monetizable ads, or anything like
In addition to being a prospect researcher, I have been a desktop Linux user for the past 15 years. Over that time, I have used many of the most popular distributions, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Debian, Linux Mint, and more. However, right now I am back on Ubuntu,
Starting in January, beer drinkers around Richmond noticed that the beers of Bell's Brewery, known for favorites such as Oberon and Two Hearted Ale, where no longer appearing on the shelves of grocery stores or at restaurants. Later, in February, we learned that the loss of Bell'
Finding a good place to host your podcast can be a struggle; the struggle is doubled if you want to find a place to do so for free. I have been producing Filibuster, the premier podcast about D.C. United, for the past 4 years, and in that time we