Google is celebrating its 8th birthday today. For the occasion they’ve changed the logo:
Can you believe it’s been 8 years? Or do they count from the spawn of “Backrub”? Happy B-Day anyway, Google.
The latest version, v0.10.0, of the mkdocs-alias-plugin is now available here. This new version adds the ability to use aliases in Markdown footnotes, a great way to keep links short and organized.
mkdocs-alias-plugin is an MkDocs plugin allowing links to your pages using a custom alias such as [[my-alias]] or [[my-alias|My Title]].
In a New Year’s resolution-driven attempt to un-Microsoft-ify my life, I’m moving all of my repositories over from GitHub (owned by Microsoft) to sourcehut (owned by some dude). This blog was the first repo to make the switch and was previously hosted via GitHub Pages, and now uses sourcehut pages instead. Here’s the config I created to make the CI-driven deployment work:
This year I read a surprising (to me) amount of books: 21 according to my notes, 6 more than last year. Here they are, listed chronologically in reading order. I’ll also list my favorite reads towards the end of the post.
I’ve been putting my work online in various formats for almost 20 years now. For most of that time, I’ve used extremely permissive licenses such as the MIT License to distribute my work in an attempt to promote usage and adoption. Now that I’m quite a bit older and experienced (you may say curmudgeony), let me tell you why I’m changing my tune and am adopting a Copyleft approach.
In the past decade or so, I’ve noticed a widespread adoption of the MIT license, even by those who in the past opposed Open Source Software as a concept. Why the swing and why so extreme? You’d think that those companies would slowly adopt Open Source rather than going all-in all at once. What’s going on?