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By Andrew, 22 June, 2022

Rekindling my relationship with VIM

Lately I've been making a conscious effort to use Vim more often.  In addition to enjoying the austere editing experience (it truly is an elegant editor from more uncomplicated times).

I wonder if Vim will become cool again and transform itself into a hipster editor and endear itself to the poncey crowd? 

By Andrew, 2 April, 2022

Accessibility and screen shots

If you have a screen shot directing a user to click on a link in the top-right of the page, what should the alternate text be?

For users relying on screen reading technology, the spatial location of link doesn't really matter.

But for low vision users (who might want to know where to target their screen magnification software), it does matter quite a bit.

By Andrew, 21 February, 2022

Making Illiad more accessible

I've been working on creating some accessibility-enhanced ILLiad web templates for 9.0 version of OCLC's web templates.

The recently released 9.2 web templates are markedly better, but still could be improved a bit, so I've been working on 9.2 templates with improved accessibility.

By Andrew, 8 July, 2021

Some nostalgia

  • 1970s Nostalgia for People Who Lived in the Grooviest Decade | Best Life
  • What Life Was Like In the '70s - It's Rosy
  • 25 Reasons We're Glad We Grew Up in the '70s | Best Life
By Andrew, 23 February, 2020

Hard Drive longevity data

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

By Andrew, 11 February, 2020

The three "C"s of system installation

Constitution, configuration, and cursing

By Andrew, 20 October, 2019

19 hours and 16 minutes non-stop flight

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.

By Andrew, 29 September, 2019

Need a quiet, dark place?

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.

By Andrew, 22 July, 2019

Keyboard shortcuts

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

By Andrew, 10 May, 2019

Command of the month: df

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.

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