Category: Tech
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Picture Editing
January 24, 2022 My wife asked me to edit a photo of her parents. I opened the file in GIMP 2.10.28 and realized that I know almost nothing about editing photos. I have a ten-year-old book, GIMP 2.6 for Photographers by Klaus Goelker that might be a good place to start.
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Note-taking App
January 23, 2022 My son uses Emacs Org Mode as his note-taking app. He uses Emacs for almost everything. He syncs using Dropbox. He says “Pretty much everything in Emacs is a text buffer, so they are just text files formatted in the correct way. To my mind, a big advantage.” Definitely worth giving Emacs…
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Note-taking app
January 22, 2022 I am working on building the 8-bit computer based on the work of Ben Eater. I watch his YouTube videos on a Raspberry Pi 4 and wanted to take notes on the Pi. I did some research and the best one for me looks like Joplin (www.joplin.org). I can sync the notes…
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Starting the Tech Blog
January 18, 2022 Here in the Adirondacks, the internet has been particularly bad recently. So, I started a physical book, Tim Ferris’ The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life. Harvest, November 20, 2021. Part of the interest is on the cooking aspect of the…