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  • Electron App Performance fix

    Electron App Performance fix

    During the move over to Linux I noticed that a couple of my main applications had a significant performance hit at startup. Both Obsidian and VSCode took a very long time to start up and get to a UI that I could use — more than 20 seconds each. Confirming on another machine that this…

  • Learning the Command Line

    Learning the Command Line

    If you’ve been a computer user who actively or even periodically uses Linux for any amount of time there are a bunch of venerable old commands that you’ve certainly heard about. Tools and command line utilities that perfectly illustrate the ethos targeted applications that do one specific thing. With my recent deep dive into Linux…

  • So Many Package Managers

    So Many Package Managers

    Something that took a bit of getting used to this week as I made my full-speed-ahead journey into Linux was understanding just how many package managers there are. I’ve been used to a two-horse race in terms of package management split roughly between “rpm distros” like RedHat or SUSE and “apt/deb distros” that are more…

  • Learning to Code Games

    Learning to Code Games

    Because I don’t have enough projects on the go I’ve decided to try to learn the basics of how to code a game. I think most programmers (and computer nerds?) have at some point said that they want to make games. It’s really kind of universal, and for most of us they’re the first thing…

  • Man in Motion

    Man in Motion

    For Canadians of a certain age — and I’m certainly showing mine — the words ‘Man in Motion’ likely conjure up only one thing: Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion World Tour from the 1980s. In an effort to raise money for spinal cord research and general accessibility for those with mobility challenges, Hansen embarked on…