Jeff MacKinnon's Homepage

Articles by Jeff MacKinnon

Spring Flowers

One of the best gardening things is to have crocus bulbs in your lawn. They come up when the snow is thinning, and in years like this, they are out while we have a couple late snow storms.

They are great, and just the colour that we need after what …

Fix Wifi Speed with Debian

First off, may I say this is dumb. This has been an issue for at least 4 years in the Linux community and still, to this day, the solution is to fix it manually.

To start, my install uses NetworkManager which has a rudimentary GUI, and since this has been …

Newsboat for quiet reading

I have started working on a little personal project I like to call, computing like its 1999. Part of this is moving a lot of the things that I do from a browser to a local app, and when possible to a TUI/CLI interface to further reduce distraction and …

Alone with my computer

I read a post on mastodon sometime in the last couple weeks, I can't find it again but it was from someone that re-installed Linux on their main machine for the first time in 10 or more years. They said it felt like, and I'm paraphrasing, "Its nice to feel …

LaTeX for notes

I finally ran out of daily planned pages in my notebook from the last print that I did. I made the template using AutoCAD because it was the tool that I had on my computer that I knew how to use at the time.

This time however, I decided to …

Parsing OPML with Python

I had a request to create a human-readable list of the OPML files that I posted earlier this week.

RSS Still Wins in 2025

Its January 2025 and the internet as we knew it in 2020 is again being upended. Elmo and Muskrat are both kneeling down and working to ensure that we, as society, are not able to communicate and connect.

Luckily for us, this is a problem that was solved at the …

No Dairy Cookies

To make sure that everyone in my extended family can enjoy the ginger molasses delicious-ness, I made a version of ginger molasses cookies without butter.

Weekend Baking

I got up to some more weekend baking and made my favourite cookies ever, ginger molasses. When it was time to put our portion in a tin, I noticed that it was round! The tin is over 20 years old! I have a few of the hexagon ones too, and …