Want to know which hard drives Backblaze uses and how they've performed in exhaustive detail? 

Constitution, configuration, and cursing

Qantas completes test of longest non-stop passenger flight - BBC News

Never has the random selection of who ends up sitting next to you seemed so important.

Need to find a place to see the Northern Lights? Need to a little more quiet in your life? Or Just need to get away from it all for a little while?

The National Transportation Noise Map and the Dark Site Finder have you covered. 

When you find your dark, quiet space, please do remember to mute and dim any electronic device that you're carrying.

Can't remember the keyboard shortcuts for an application? Want to discover shortcuts that you've never knew existed? Check out? defkey

How much disk space do you have left? Says you to a computer. Well just say "df."  Or perhaps just say "df -h" if you are made out of carbon.

With the release of Firefox 65 earlier this year, every modern (as in "Non-Internet Explorer") browser now supports WEBP, so I'm thinking that it might be time to start incorporating this image format into production work.  I remember following  the development of the JPEG 2000  format with anticipation, followed by forgetfulness.  But now it appears as if we do indeed have a new and shiny format to play with.

While I'm a big fan of the numerous references that allow you to see which parts of HTML5, CSS, JS that you can use, I also frequently use similar resources that describe various technologies' support of accessibility-related standards:

Earlier this year I noticed that Bash released version 5 . Now Linux turns 5 as well. While Linus did say  "that '5.0' doesn't mean anything more than that the 4.x numbers started getting big enough that I ran out of fingers and toes," it's still a round number and makes me think back about the various version numbers of the kernel that I've used over the years. 

While I do like and use the GUI DiskUsageAnalyzer and the ncurses-based Ncdu to examine disk usage on Linux systems, there is something that feels good about getting back to basics and using command line tools like the du (disk usage) command once and a while.