https://punsalad.com/geekery The most recent articles from Pun Salad (View: Geekery) en-us Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:52:01 -0400 (paid link) For about 10 years, my desktop PC environment has been a split Windows 11/Fedora Linux setup, with the Linux part being a VirtualBox guest on the Windows host. It worked OK, but I saw some... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/09/28/1790606921 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:48:41 -0400 (paid link) Another September 2026 Update If you're wondering: "But how would I do this in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)?", the answer is "Just ask Claude." My short and sweet experience described here in Claude II: Electric Boogaloo .... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2025/08/02/1754130819 Sat, 02 Aug 2025 06:33:39 -0400 [ UPDATE 2026-01-31: I ran across YouTube videos featuring Richard Feynman audio talks. The accompanying images are something to watch while you're listening to the man talk, with his Brooklyn cab-driver accent. I've embedded a relevant episode at the end of this post. Feynman, who died in... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2024/07/15/1721055661 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:01:01 -0400 Introduction/Rationale This blogpost describes the most recent version of my "book picking" system. It assumes a Linux operating system, and uses Perl. Some "extra" Perl modules are used, not in the core Perl distribution: Const::Fast , version... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2022/04/18/1650279936 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 07:05:36 -0400 [ 2021-07-13 Update: Didn't take long after my initial post to make some major changes. Embarassing that I didn't get it right the first time.] Another Perl/Linux-based salve to the mental aberration I've mentioned in the past: using my meager coding skills as... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2021/07/12/1626091200 Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:00:00 -0400 [ Update 2025-08-02: Switched over to the Claude-written Chrome API Bridge extension instead of the defunct chromix-too.] [ Update 2020-07-16: added some new logic to allow link target text to be provided on standard input. Prettified (slightly) the site-string chopping... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2020/07/01/1593638602 Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:23:22 -0400 (paid link) Some sites (like the Boston Globe ) are pretty nasty about letting you have access to a severely limited number of "free" pages. They do this by leaving web cookies on your computer so they can recognize your browser when... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2019/01/15/1547560927 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:02:07 -0400 [ Update 2019-11-11 : Sources moved to GitHub ; verbose flag added to picking script; HTML listing script includes stack weights and probabilities, and indicates whether book is owned on Kindle.] This is an updated version... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2018/07/03/1530632770 Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:46:10 -0400 Note: No actual code here. Back in July 2013, Google discontinued its " Reader " RSS/Atom feed aggregation service. Basically: you subscribed to a number of websites via their syndication feeds. Google would periodically query the feeds... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2018/01/05/1515184406 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:33:26 -0400 (paid link) [ November 2019 : sources moved to GitHub ] Awhile back I replaced the (increasingly unwieldy) monthly archive section over there in the right-hand column with a yearly archive section: one link per year that... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2017/12/27/1514377232 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 07:20:32 -0400