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Info importdata function and making downloadable links from public google drive files.

A handful of command line tools that I should check out, mostly for searching files, from a helpful redditor.

Via https://digitallyliterate.net/dl-231/

The advancement of computing power from the original Raspberry Pi a few years ago to the Raspberry Pi 4 is astounding.

Good.

Great post within a series on learning how to model blogging as a teacher. Found via: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=70348

I love how niches like this can be carved out. This channel uses video game music to explore music theory concepts. So cool!

Need to look in to this later for backing up my home server.

This whole series is helpful as someone who is begrudingly moving to zsh with the release of Catalina. I still kind of want to just stay with bash though as its what I use on every server I interact with. Zsh is at least similar enough to bash though.

A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era.

This is so cool. I wish something like this was available as a kit to buy. I have no reason to own something like this, but the nerd in me doesn't care.

So cool to see someone describe what a Browser is in 1993. This video also is a really cool showcase of what using pre-web internet services was like. There is even a feature on early video conferencing developed at NASA! Definitely going to use this on digciz.jadin.me during history of the internet next time I teach it.

I love stuff from The Pudding.

This is a super nerdy look into the Mueller report. It's not evaluating the content of the report, but how or if it holds up as a good PDF document. I guess this type of article makes some sense coming from the PDF ASsociation...

Smart TVs are a mistake. I’ve never liked the idea of relying on a crappy computer built in to an expensive TV, when you could get a much more capable box like an Apple TV that is external and replacable every few years. On top of that not connecting your TV to the internet means the manufacturer can’t sell your viewing habits and history.