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It’s called Cowculator! You punch in the date you went vegan and it will give you up to the nanosecond stats like how many tons of Co2, acres of rainforest, etc. you’ve saved. It’s completely free, no ads even. Get the Android version at the Play Store version at the...

bash has been my command shell for my entire Linux-using life. It was the default on the first Linux distribution I had ever tried and I never questioned it. On a recent project I was forced to use a shared account (which is bad practice in general, but that's another...

How many times have you read a super interesting book, full of fascinating insights and facts, and then, years later, you are lucky if you remember even 1% of what you read? I don't know about you, but this makes me angry. I think it's a waste of life, a...

The hippie van's odometer recently ticked 100,000. According to ancient mechanic lore, machines last longer if you do preventative maintenance on them. As a long-term oriented kind of guy, I looked through the service schedule to see what needed to be done. Although my camper van exudes the ineffable and...

We added solar power system to the camper van. It was delightfully easy. First, we sized the system to our modest electrical needs: have power to run the exhaust fan, charge some cell phones and plug in random knick-knacks that take AC adapter plugs. We settled on a 100 watt...