2016: a Long Year I know you're expecting a sarcastic comment about an election year in the US making it seem longer than normal, but no, 2016 is literally a longer year than most.

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You've Got Questions?

Get Smart Wanna get smart? Use Linux. (Mic drop.)

A Tasty Slice of Awesome I love the flavor of raspberries, but quite honestly, the seeds gross me out.

How to Do That Thing You Do I love to learn. I've always been a learner, so grade school and college were both extremely enjoyable for me.

The editorial staff here at Linux Journal wants to see your skills! Almost every time I'm in the #linuxjournal IRC channel, chit chatting on Google+, or tweeting back and forth on Twitter, I hear about really exciting projects our readers are involved with.

Welcome to Issue 10000000! Binary jokes are always fun, and although technically I could say "welcome to issue <BINARY_NUMBER>" every month, it's more fun with nice round numbers li

Infinite Portal to the Universe, 12-Hour Battery Life A few months back, I accidentally left my phone on the nightstand, and spent an entire day without my cell phone.

Two Cups, One String Whenever I watch episodes of Battlestar Galactica, it breaks my heart when they avoid Cylon hacking by disconnecting all networks.

Under Construction I think it was in the late 1990s, possibly into the 2000s, when it was common to put a cutesy graphic on the bottom of your Web page letting everyone know your site

Security: a Method, Not a Goal The Security issue of Linux Journal always makes me feel a little guilty. It turns out that although I have a fairly wide set of technology skills, I'm not the person you want in charge of securing your network or your systems. By default, Linux is designed with a moderate amount of security in mind. For that, I am incredibly grateful.

They use our stuff. Why not our values too? At this point in history, arguments for using Linux, FOSS (free and open-source software) and the Internet make themselves. Yet the virtues behind those things—freedom, openness, compatibility, interoperability, substitutability—still tend to be ignored by commercial builders of new stuff.

The Best of the Best I love the Readers' Choice issue. I jokingly say it's because all the work is done by the community, but honestly, it's because I love hearing the feedback from everyone. Year after year, I inevitably learn about a new technology or application, and I'm usually surprised by at least one of the voting results.

Folger's Crystals Every time I write a Bash script or schedule a cron job, I worry about the day I'll star in my very own IT version of a Folger's commercial. Instead of "secretly replacing coffee with Folger's Instant Crystals", however, I worry I'll be replaced by an automation framework and a few crafty FOR loops.

Linux Inside! Linux Inside! Linux inside, Linux inside, every single one of us has Linux inside!

How'd You Do That? Open-source advocates tend to make for rotten magicians.

Chocolate in My Peanut Butter Programming always has been that "thing" people did that I never understood.