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Thief stole a FreeBSD laptop

We had just moved to the nicer part of Berkeley. Our previous spot - on Ashby, near San Pablo - had bars on the doors and windows. They say good fences make good neighbors. Maybe so. This laptop, at the new apartment, was pretty rough … a refurb HP, if I recall. The year had to have been 2005 and I think the body of this laptop was sortof translucent, downstream from the Apple aesthetic at the…

Toronto hides its secrets in our front-yard bushes

Toronto - the people of the city, that is - hides its secrets in the tall bushes in front of our home, where two city streets intersect. These bushes are taller than I am; not by that much - but still. From spring to fall, these hedges are pretty dense with tiny leaves and such. I know people think of the space behind these leaves as a place for hiding in plain sight. I’ve found the wildest stuff…

Diamond Patterns

Overview Diamond-Patterns are scaffolds for knowledge work. Use patterns to go faster. Links website Features quickly scaffold projects of specific forms easily installs using python package management with pip

Diamond Accounting

Overview Diamond-Accounting helps you manage your finances using accounting books. Diamond-Accounting is built using ledger-cli, which is open source software. Everything is managed using plain text files that are simple to chronicle using version control. Links website Features double-entry bookkeeping system extremely powerful accounting engine using ledger-cli works on UNIX systems open source…

Routine

Get the book on Amazon Routine is a blueprint for living. This book is for anybody looking to be a well-rounded person who eats well, saves money, is a good citizen, and is professionally successful. An activity is routine when it is performed daily. More or less. Taken together, all this book’s activities are known as: Routine. Routine should become nameless by its invisibility as it dissolves…

Gthnk

Overview Gthnk is a personal knowledge management system. Use Gthnk to capture your ideas using plain old text files. Gthnk is a cross-platform desktop application written in Python. Links Website Overview Video Features a personal Journal supports long-term Archival technically, it’s a Database a Chronology of your notes including Handwritten Notes and Mobile Notes image Attachments

Flask Diamond

Overview Flask-Diamond is a batteries-included Flask framework. A Flask-Diamond application consists of facets, which are common facilities that many applications eventually need to provide. Links website Features The facets provided by Flask-Diamond include: account management administrative access databases Model object CRUD email testing documentation deployment and more

Routine

Overview Routine is a blueprint for living. This book is for anybody looking to be a well-rounded person who eats well, saves money, is a good citizen, and is professionally successful. An activity is routine when it is performed daily. More or less. Taken together, all this book’s activities are known as: Routine. Routine should become nameless by its invisibility as it dissolves into the…

Project System

Overview Create workspaces for projects and manage them. Project-system is software for UNIX that creates a Python virtual environment, a git version-controlled directory, and sets up a tmux session. Links website Features quickly create a workspace for each project you work on use Python 2 or Python 3 store any python dependencies within a virtual environment work “inside” a project workspace…

Spring

spring’s verdant sunrain gallop, galumph on all fours climb seeing farther