Biodegradable Geek

RescueTime’s 22 Gigabyte notifier.debuglog Log File

I did find it weird that I kept running out of disk space recently. That hasn’t happened in years, and most of my big files go on another HD. On top of that, this box has been sluggish lately, even taking into account the fact that it’s ~4 years old and I always have 5-6 [...]

Learning to Read and Grok Other People’s Code

One reason many people don’t contribute to open source apps is because they find it daunting to look through somebody else’s code. Some might even think that it’s just simpler to write something from scratch than to study someone’s work. This isn’t true, and reading foreign code is something get used to and excel at [...]

A free, self-hosted, and open source alternative to Basecamp

In my search for a Basecamp alternative – because it’s not free, and I’d prefer something I can host on my own server – I have come across an excellent piece of software called ProjectPier. This is a branch from ActiveCollab — an open source project that later became a commercial product. ProjectPier is simple, [...]