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Linux Made Simple ☛ 2025-07-12 [Older] How to install Synfig Studio on Kubuntu 24.04
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2025-07-13 [Older] How to install Synfig Studio on Kubuntu 24.04
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2025-07-15 [Older] Manual intervention required for OpenRC
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Matthew J Ernisse ☛ Extracting Apple Notes (via IMAP!)
Amazingly Apple Notes still retains the ability to use an IMAP server to synchronize notes. I've been using IMAP to synchronize my notes since my BlackBerry days and while I almost never think about it I am sure glad this is still supported. Amongst all the other things I keep stashed in my notebook I keep a list of CDs I'm looking for. Until recently I would periodically copy/paste that list into a markdown document that is rendered into a static wishlist that I share with friends and family. I was batching up the most recent finds I had bookmarked and it occurred to me that I should be able to automate this.
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University of Toronto ☛ Checklists are hard (but still a good thing)
We recently had a big downtime at work where part of the work was me doing a relatively complex and touchy thing. Naturally I made a checklist, but also naturally my checklist turned out to be incomplete, with some things I'd forgotten and some steps that weren't quite right or complete. This is a good illustration that checklists are hard to create.