https://blog.johanv.org/enContents © 2025 <a href="https://blog.johanv.org/pages/contact/">Johan Vervloet</a> <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"> <img alt="Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:12px;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png"></a>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:31:18 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/why-linux/Johan Vervloet<div><p>I submitted this to HPR, see <a class="reference external" href="http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1641">episode 1641</a>.</p> <p>I am a Linux user since the end of 1999. Which is 15 years already. I've also been trying for almost 15 years to convince other people to try Linux. And I must confess that I very often used wrong arguments doing this. After 15 years it is time to ditch some fake arguments, and to tell you the real reasons why you should switch to Linux. :-)</p> <p><a href="https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/why-linux/">Read more…</a> (10 min remaining to read)</p></div>hprlinuxopensourcehttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/why-linux/Sun, 19 Oct 2014 20:35:09 GMThttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/drupal-nikola/Johan Vervloet<div><p>(I recorded an episode for Hacker Public Radio about this subject, which will be 'on air' on 2014-09-30. <a class="reference external" href="http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1607">HPR1507</a>)</p> <p>As promised, some details about how I <a class="reference external" href="https://blog.johanv.org/posts/first-post/">migrated my blog</a> from Drupal 6 to <a class="reference external" href="http://getnikola.com">Nikola</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/drupal-nikola/">Read more…</a> (3 min remaining to read)</p></div>https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/drupal-nikola/Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:55:31 GMThttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/first-post/Johan Vervloet<div><p>At last I migrated my blog. It used to be a Drupal 6 blog, and I wasn't sure whether I wanted to migrate to Drupal 7 or Drupal 8. And eventually, I didn't migrate to either of those.</p> <p>Now I am using <a class="reference external" href="http://getnikola.com">Nikola</a>, a static site generator. I got the idea from <a class="reference external" href="http://stevebaer.com">guitarman</a>, who did an <a class="reference external" href="http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1577">HPR episode about Nikola</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/first-post/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/first-post/Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:21:02 GMThttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-211/Johan Vervloet<div><p>(This article is more or less a transcript of a <a class="reference external" href="http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1517">show I sent to hacker public radio</a>.)</p> <p>In this short article I want to talk about prime numbers. In praticular: about the fact that there exist an infinite number of prime numbers. This has been proven more than 2000 years ago, but I noticed that a lot of my friends that don't have a mathematical background, aren't aware of this fact.</p> <p>Yet it is rather easy to prove. So that is what I'll be doing in this article. If you are afraid of math, don't worry, it won't take more than 10 minutes.</p> <p><a href="https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-211/">Read more…</a> (2 min remaining to read)</p></div>https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-211/Wed, 14 May 2014 19:53:31 GMThttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-204/Johan Vervloet<div class="section" id="word-processors-are-overrated"> <h2>Word processors are overrated</h2> <p>(This is the transcript of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1238">my second submission for Hacker Public Radio</a>.)</p> <p>Word processors are overrated. Too often they are used instead of better alternatives. For example: to write a report, to describe a workflow or a vision, a lot of people just grab Microsoft Word. Which is a bad idea. Should you use LibreOffice Writer then? OpenOffice? Maybe Google docs? They are not much better.</p> <p><a href="https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-204/">Read more…</a> (5 min remaining to read)</p></div>file formatshprofficehttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-204/Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:46:01 GMThttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-200/Johan Vervloet<div class="section" id="hpr-episode-about-git"> <h2>HPR episode: About git</h2> <p>This is more or less the transcript of my HPR submission about git, a version control system.</p> <p><a href="https://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-200/">Read more…</a> (15 min remaining to read)</p></div>developmentgithprhttps://blog.johanv.org/en/posts/old/node-200/Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:18:55 GMT