Joey Hess
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
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Uses Sheevaplug
The only other active computer in the house is my home server and internet gateway; a Sheevaplug with a wireless dongle and a dialup modem.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Uses Obnam
And I should mention that I'm using Obnam for backups lately.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Uses Music Player Daemon
Other notable software includes the Music Player Daemon, which runs on my netbook and also my home server.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
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Loved Redshift
And the excellent Redshift application, which adjusts the screen color temperature depending on the time of day and preserves my night vision.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Uses git-annex
I download my mail with offlineimap, as well as blogs converted to mail with rss2email I use distributed version control extensively, and use my git-annex to maintain large quantities of local data and queue up large files to transfer in the rare times when I'm around fast internet.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
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Uses offlineimap
I download my mail with offlineimap, as well as blogs converted to mail with rss2email I use distributed version control extensively, and use my git-annex to maintain large quantities of local data and queue up large files to transfer in the rare times when I'm around fast internet.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Loved Haskell
I've gradually became a big fan of Haskell; I feel it makes me write much more solid code that is much easier to maintain and refactor. But the best part is there are seemingly no end of things to learn in the Haskell space.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Uses Vim
My editor is vim, and my web browser is chromium.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Uses Xmonad
I use the XFCE desktop environment, with the Xmonad window manager.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Uses XFCE
I use the XFCE desktop environment, with the Xmonad window manager.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Uses Debian unstable
I run Debian unstable on my laptop and most of my servers.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Uses Dell Mini 9
I do everything on a netbook, a Dell Mini 9. I've been using it since 2008, and have worn out two keyboards.
usesthis.com 30 Oct 2012
Where they publish
Site joeyh.name His site and blog: code, off-grid living, Debian.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
Mastodon @joeyh@sunbeam.city His Mastodon account.
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- 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237 #Lost 20 Oct 2026
- ghc finally bootstrapped, via hugs and microhs https://github.com/andreabedini/ghc-bootstrap They used LLM assistance. It's worth noting that microhs has itself had a lot of LLM generated code over the past year or two. 20 Oct 2026
- Climate change is shit. Not will be, is. https://archive.is/zxM83 "The last three months were about three degrees above average [...], tens of millions of people can’t afford to pay for the air-conditioning that helped keep them safe in the deadly heat" "one in six U.S. households is already behind on its utility bills" 18 Oct 2026
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- Been charging my EV #offgrid for 2 years now and up to 2.25 megawatt hours total. That's $1000 saved over using public fast chargers. Not bad for a way to use excess power from the #solar system, which was not really designed to charge an EV, just to always have enough power at home. After some upgrades, I expect it will be closer to 1.5 mwh/year going forward. 17 Oct 2026
- Re leap seconds being deferred now until there's a leap hour -- Imagining the future point where noon is say, 45 minutes before solar noon, and heading toward 60 minutes in a century or two, the obvious thing to do then would be to adjust the time zone back an hour. This would be done here and there a bit at a time, but it would eventually happen almost everywhere. So there would be no point in ever updating #UTC. 16 Oct 2026
- #sourdough baked on solar power under the clouds of Isaias 11 Oct 2026
- . o O "oh no not this too" . o O "whew" 8 Oct 2026
- Compare and contrast, LLM generated code vs this other code I found https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/crypton/blob/main/cbits/aes/gcm_fused_x86.c#L206 https://github.com/h2o/picotls/blob/master/lib/fusion.c#L337 I should not need to be doing this kind of auditing of libraries I depend on. 26 Sept 2026
- filed an issue on a library, they implemented it using an LLM so now I won't be depending on any new versions of that library kind of makes you wonder what is the point of particpating 26 Sept 2026
- third bisection of the buried water line confirms that the leak is where it passes under the water tank In retrospect, putting it under the water tank was a bad idea. The changing weight on the ground as it fills and empties probably means extra movement of anything around the water line. Oh well, it will be annoying to need to trench halfway around the tank in tight quarters, but it's only 10 feet to repair this. A big win over needing to redo the whole 250 foot water line! 25 Sept 2026
- second bisection of my buried water line completed and I have the leak pinpointed to within 50 feet now There continues to be a good chance it's leaking under the water tank. Which would explain my confusion earlier chasing this leak, the area around the water tank was always wet.. but the tank turned out not to be leaking. 25 Sept 2026
- finally started bisecting my buried water line to find out where it's leaking this is just like git bisect, except the log is barely visible traces in the dirt, and you have to dig in rocky clay for half an hour in hopefully the right place to try to find the midpoint anyway, the top half tests bad, and the bottom half tests good but also the top half was still holding water under enough pressure to spurt out when cut despite being disconnected from the water tanks for months.. which is a strong hint that the leak is pretty close to the very top 24 Sept 2026
- On the ferry after a week camping on the island. Car says it will arrive at the charger at 8% .. phone is 30%, power bank at 5%, laptop at 10%. ... I'm at 100% 20 Sept 2026
- Island hopping 18 Sept 2026
- Sturgeon's law, of all things to add nines too? 18 Sept 2026
- Minutes waiting on charging: 20 Minutes waiting on ferry: 90 14 Sept 2026
- At my 5th charging stop of the day and the only one where I may need to wait on the car 14 Sept 2026
- Driving 10 hours to the beach. Then a ferry. Then putting up a tent hopefully not in the dark. 14 Sept 2026
- Receptionist claimed that if I self paid for a doctors visit it would he insurance fraud. Sigh, now I have to write a letter to their board suggesting they not mislead their patients. (I assume it would violate an agreement they have with the insurer, which is no excuse for that behavior) 11 Sept 2026
- neat product. also, I implemented the same thing for myself with 100 lines of code 10 Sept 2026 shop.calasystems.com
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