Notes

OpenBSD has a very rigid way of doing things, which is great for security and attracts developers who have similar rigid thinking in life. I'm sure it appealed to me as a younger know-it-all. But over time, it's harder to cling to decades-old practices while the world moves on.

In my Q&A video I suggested OpenBSD could improve by reaching out to younger developers by making it easier to contribute with Git/GitHub.

A discussion on the ports mailing list came up and I suggested it... which went over like a lead balloon:

https://www.mail-archive.com/ports@openbsd.org/index.html#109661

get a room already alice and bob

A periodic reminder that I made a website and I would like you to use it

https://deskto.ps

This is a great video about Norton Desktop which makes me kind of sad I never knew about it back in my Windows 3.1 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7AezjG5YE

Thanks to everyone that sent in questions!

https://jcs.org/2022/01/14/q&a

Thanks for all the questions everyone, I was not expecting that many

I've grouped them by category and will be recording my answers today

I'm not a YouTuber and I don't have a podcast anymore, but I thought it might be fun to make one of those Q&A videos

If you have a question about me, my setup, OpenBSD, Pushover, old Macs, whatever, reply with your question here and I'll make a video this week

Please stop spewing ANSI color from your random command-line program

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/

This Mac Plus didn't come with the "programmer's switch", so let's just print one

Using resource forks as a database file was a bad idea :(

https://jcs.org/2022/01/08/bile

current mood

The CRT needed some slight voltage, positioning, and size adjustments

Voltage through the floppy port now at 5.05V and 12V and the screen image measures 7.1" x 4.75"

Welcome, slightly yellowed friend

Here's the hard drive... thank you for your service at Benson Public Schools