Mike Stone

Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon

Work Applications

December 4, 2024

Like many people who use Linux on their home computer, my personal preference don’t get taken into consideration at work. Unfortunately, as far as my work laptop is concerned, I’m a Windows 11 user. So, just for fun I thought I’d do a brief inventory of the applications I use to get my work done on a day to day basis.

A New Markdown Editor

November 22, 2024

A couple of days ago, I mentioned that I had resumed using Ghostwriter after a while of just using VSCode to edit my blog. I think I’ve found something better.

Brief Update

November 21, 2024

Just a quick update.

Shiny And New

November 20, 2024

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a refresh of my default desktop. Things have been running pretty well, but it was definitely feeling it’s age. Finally, I decided to get to it.

No Available Internet

October 23, 2024

Well, that’s not exactly true, but close enough.

I’m sitting here, and there’s a guest WiFi hotspot here. I pull out my laptop and connect to it like a blithering idiot connecting to random hotspots with no concern for my security. Does it work? Well, kinda?

I can’t tell how fast the connection is. It won’t connect to anything on the web. I was able to pull down the repo that drives my web site, so I’m thinking that I’ll actually be able to publish this when I’m done typing it. I tried doing some brief updates to the system, and some of it work, but not all of it.

This kind of harkens back to my earlier post about how my computer is virtually all web based applications. I have a computer here, and I could be doing all kinds of things, but none of those things are installed. Instead, I find myself complaining in a blog post written in vim.

At least there’s vim. vim always works, no matter where you are. Thanks vim.

Day 26 of the #100DaysToOffload Series.

Offline Life

October 18, 2024

It’s been a while since I’ve put up a post. This isn’t going to be good for my 100 Days challenge since there are only so many days left in 2024, but there has just been things going on.

Failure Can Be Good

September 20, 2024

I think most of us have it in our head that failure is a bad thing. It’s understandable considering how we normally define failure. Failure is “not succeeding”, but sometimes not succeeding is just as good as succeeding.

The Nightmares Have Begun

September 17, 2024

I mentioned a couple days ago that I’d started my first class for this semester. I’ve barely begun, and we’re back to the same old nightmares.

A New Semester Begins

September 15, 2024

I was hoping to drag out a little bit more free time between college classes, but I also wanted to finish up two classes back to back before the end of the year. Unfortunately, time was working against me. If I wanted two 8 week courses done by December 31st, I had to get going now. So, tomorrow it begins.

Progress Report

September 13, 2024

On the 16th of August, I started up a new 100 Days to Offload challenge. So, how are things going?