Pop!_OS upgrade; blog development

Date: 2026-04-18

A quiet weekend. Was supposed to be in Pakistan but Iran got first dibs. Up to over 9,000 words for textbook chapter I am writing. Nothing much else going on.

Pop!_OS upgrade

Upgraded my home Linux box to Pop!_OS 24.04 without major issues: Upgrade Pop!_OS - System76 Support. Won’t be able to use RustDesk to access my computer because the new Pop!_OS uses Wayland, but I don’t really need it. Had to reinstall borgmatic, apt-fast and R, as well as rebuilding all my R packages. It has also broken my daily planner Shiny app in prcleary/paulmisc: Miscellaneous R functions that Paul uses package (the clipr package doesn’t work as before), which I will need to fix at some point.

Blog development

Still playing with the blog format - added a list of interestingbookmarksusing Karakeep. Added a couple of shortcuts to ~/.bashrc to help with blogging.

blog() {
  local BLOG_DIR="$HOME/prcleary.github.io/content/Thoughts"
  local DATE
  DATE=$(date +%F)   # YYYY-MM-DD format
  local FILE="$BLOG_DIR/$DATE.md"
  vim "$FILE"
}
alias publish='cd ~/prcleary.github.io; emanote -L content/ gen docs/; git add .; git commit -m "Add content"; git push; cd -'
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