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Thanks for being a totally decent and yet entirely entertaining person, Alex Trebek.

San Antonio to Columbus, OH, to Baxley, GA, to San Antonio. Over a week... Still, that was a lot of driving...

I think my butt has a permanent dent now where my mask sits in my back pocket.

Latest chapter of 20020, the sequel to 17776, is fantastic.

Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice: Today marks 20 years since the source code to OpenOffice was released. And today we say, LibreOffice is clearly the future of the suite (see the timeline). Let's all get behind it, for the benefit of all users: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

Fitness, running 

5k - me plus 20 lbs

Thanks to everyone who supported wounded warriors today.

I'm happy to announce a project I've been working on for a while now:

#OpenCuts, the open crowdsourced user testing suite

open-cuts.org
gitlab.com/open-cuts

OPEN-CUTS is a web-tool to help #OpenSource communities with user testing! The goal is to allow even inexperienced users to easily report test results for new software releases. OPEN-CUTS then aggregates and compares the metadata across versions to identify regressions.

Yay, this week I spoke to official devs on the Ubuntu and Debian project and it seems my Aparapi Library will be in both mainline Debian and Ubuntu package managers soon!

Go / :opensource:

git.qoto.org/aparapi/aparapi

It's kind of funny in retrospect that the programming language whose mantra was "There Should Be Only One Way To Do It" featured two separately maintained, incompatible, versions of itself for 11 years.

Some of the concerns addressed here are the same met by the EU . It's time for some better privacy protection in the US. If this is actually a problem it is broader than these two Chinese companies.

ft.com/content/58eb7c26-2154-4

It's a coffee shop in an elevator, and the elevator still works apparently! The coffee is good too.

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Passing through Waco on a road trip, Magnolia's coffee shop is packed like an amusement park. Gotta try this place - Brü.

I read Stars and Stripes in our shipping container in Iraq, and checked it regularly states-side too... It's one of the best sources for explaining policy and standards changes, and for breaking down issues important to the military.

usatoday.com/story/opinion/202

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