Filesystem Links: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
In a recent post, we discussed why hierarchies are a problematic way of organizing files and how we can squash our files into a hierarchy when we hav...
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Recent posts
Human Memory by Example: Weaknesses
This is part two of “Human Memory By Example.” Last week we focused on strengths of human memory; this week we’ll look at weaknesses with an eye towards how ...
Human Memory by Example: Strengths
In my introduction to this series, I suggested:
The 2018 Concentration Project: A Review
Over the course of 2018, I’ve been undertaking an extended project which I’ve titled the 2018 Concentration Project. The goal was to improve my ability to co...
Getting Your Filesystem Hierarchy Less Wrong
All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less. motto of the Mutt email client
Starting Off with a Backup
What would happen to your digital life if your house suddenly burned down tomorrow? Would you be all right, or would you have yet another nasty problem piled...
Why Keep a Local Filesystem?
I like to start out my series here on Control-Alt-Backspace by discussing why you should care about the topic. After all, if I can’t convincingly answer that...
Why You Still Need To Know Things
It’s hard to learn things, and it’s even harder to remember them after you learn them if you’re not using them constantly. Humanity has had this problem sinc...
An Introduction to Keyboard Shortcuts
The computer mouse is a fabulous invention. It makes many things that would be extraordinarily frustrating without one (editing images and videos, finding op...