Introduction For about the past 14 years I’ve been using Linode as my preferred personal VPS provider. I started using them at the beginning of November 2008 when I first setup my blog. Other than a short and painful mistake of hosting my blog elsewhere, it has lived on Linode. Recently I had to setup a VPS with DigitalOcean. This was due to needing the VPS in a data center located in a very specific place....
Introduction I decided to enhance the look of my Tacoma by buying a skid plate. While I do want something that will work as a skid plate, I didn’t want a lump of grey metal. The TRD Pro skid looks good but I’m not a big fan of trying to make one trim look like another. I decided to get Bullet Proof Fabricating’s (BPF) skid plate. It works as as skid and in my opinion is the best looking one you can get for the Tacoma....
Introduction Recently WordPress.com (and WordPress in general) has started pushing the new Gutenberg editor. It uses a block based model instead of a traditional document centric one. This I don’t like but I also don’t mind. It’s a different way of composing and I can see the benefit. However, Gutenberg is not ready if you post source code and I do this a lot. Posting source code used to be done using the [code] shortcode....
Introduction The TRD Sport is known to have the hardest ride of any of the Tacoma trims. You’d except this from the Sport model with a sport tuned suspension. Out of all the trims the Sport has the least body roll and is the best handling Tacoma. As with all sport suspensions, this comes at the expensive of ride comfort. Overall I like the way the TRD Sport rides and in the city with maintained roads it rides very well....
Introduction Awhile back I wrote about my experience with the TRD Sport and TRD Pro where I concluded the Sport is better suited for me. Since writing that post, knowing that the Pro just isn’t right has been nagging at me. The ride and handling are the biggest things I keep coming back to. Spur of the moment I decided to trade my Pro for a Sport. Model Model year 2018 Cab 4 door Bed Short bed Engine V6 Transmission Automatic Drive 4x4 Seats Cloth Climate Standard single zone with dials Safety Parking sensor and blind spot monitoring Tow package Yes What’s special about this truck is, it’s nearly what I wanted when I got my first TRD Sport....
Introduction So far, I’ve had three Toyota Tacomas, a 2nd gen and two 3rd gens. The reason I’ve had two 3rd gens is because I leased the first one. When the 2016 3rd gen was released I wasn’t sure how good it was going to be. Especially with competition from the rereleased Chevy Colorado. My boss bought the GMC Canyon (the Colorado under a different badge) so I was able to get an idea of what it was like....
This is part of the Sigil’s website get page. I figured since I was on a roll with Linux and the issues I have with the Linux community I would publish this here too. It explains a lot of my rational as to why I don’t really like or want to be part of the Linux “community”. As stated Sigil will run on Linux. We try to maintain compatibility with Linux mainly because it’s easy to with Sigil supporting both OS X and Windows and it uses a number of technologies that already support Linux....
A bug was opened against KDocker the other day. Now bugs aren’t a bad thing and typically they are user error so they get closed out as invalid. Sometimes they’re real issues which get looked into and fixed. On very rare occasions they’re dictations/demands. I’ve edited the post to include the contents of the bug report here because the move to GitHub makes the link to the original bug unable to be viewed....
Introduction One thing I’ve recently noticed (especially with web developers) is they leave off the copyright year entirely. Now realize I AM NOT A LAWYER! This is my layman’s understanding based on reading the relevant sections of US copyright law. None of what I have to say is legal advice and should be taken with skepticism. Again I’m not a lawyer so I cannot provide legal advise nor can my writing be taken as an actual (court case usable) interpretation of the law....
The Good Parts I’m a big open source advocate and spend quite a bit of my spare time contributing to various open source projects. Everything form managing full projects such as Sigil, and KDocker. Also, heavily contributing to projects such as calibre. As well as doing one off patches and filing bug reports to various projects I use. I believe in the open source philosophy to the extent that I’ve even gotten permission to push patches upstream to open source projects we use internally at work (fully compliant with the licensing) such as PenLight....