JRO Journal 2026-06

2026-06-01

To-do

• Add Jonathan photo to website
• Add Jonathan contact info to website
• Publish website --> https://Jonathan.Rogivue.net/work-profile
• Pay Stu / Chicago 2026 trip
• Book flights for Austin 2026 trip
• Review HN Who's Hiring & HN's Who Wants to be hired
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357725
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357724
• Schedule Dentist
• Gym pop
• Reminder: Cleo vet appointment @ Laureles / [[2026-06-02]]

Installing Signal chat on Linux

Installed Signal on the laptop (what's its code name?).

How to install Signal chat on Linux Mint Debian Edition (#LMDE): https://signal.org/download/linux/

Thoughts: I don't like when software vendors promote installing their software with a terminal/shell script. From a user experience, I ought to be able to get Signal using (1) the Software Manager app, (2) a downloadable & installable Debian package (.deb)

NOTE: These instructions only work for 64-bit Debian-based

Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Mint etc.

1. Install our official public software signing key:

wget -O- https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor > signal-desktop-keyring.gpg; cat signal-desktop-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg > /dev/null

2. Add our repository to your list of repositories:

wget -O signal-desktop.sources https://updates.signal.org/static/desktop/apt/signal-desktop.sources; cat signal-desktop.sources | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-desktop.sources > /dev/null

3. Update your package database and install Signal:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop

QUestions / Problems

• How to type a back-tick character on Spanish keyboard (specifically: Dell Latitude 5300)?