I like firefox, and I've tweaked it to be ideal for me. The extensions I have are:
Dark reader: I prefer dark themes, so this applies one to websites. This works great except for my bank's website, which I've excluded in the plugin.
Tridactyl: provides vim keybindings. It's intuitive and …
I read this article about buying the cheapest tool first, and if I use it until it breaks, then I can buy the most expensive one. I've tried to apply this to my purchases, and I've realized that I am sometimes okay with the cheap things I've bought …
I'd need to set up ubuntu, but I didn't want to lose my home directory. Everything was in one partition, so I'd lose my home folder with a re-install. I didn't want this, so I moved it into another partition.
The new partition would be the size of my home …
"We've got this project on kubernetes that you'll be helping maintain"
This started my journey with kubernetes. I found a great tutorial from freecodecamp and this blog is an attempt to set up some personal projects using it. It's best to read the original though as it's more in-depth.
I …
I created a cronjob to back up my server content and wanted to test out emailing of errors when they occurred. To set this up, I installed msmtp and msmtp-mta to help send emails using an smtp server and bsd-mailx to test sending emails from terminal. The cronjob entry was …
I needed to pull off a quick website that would have various mathematics questions, and thought to try and use pandoc. Here are my learnings:
I first installed pandoc-bin because I didn't to deal with a lot of haskell dependencies.
yay -S pandoc-bin
The first iteration I made generated an …
I was reading SQL antipatterns and got into the chapter about recursive queries and how there are different ways to approach this. I wanted to experiment with this and found that postgresql supports recursive queries. I decided to make a simple commenting database and see how it would work.
I used vimwiki for task management, with a couple of custom snippets and scripts, but this quickly became complicated. I needed another tool that would be easy to use, easy to understand and easy to tweak. TaskLite fit these conditions perfectly:
I had a new laptop but couldn't access my previous one, so I had to figure out how to get my pass secrets. I had these problems:
I recently got a Thinkpad T440 and decided to document the steps I took to set up archlinux. The last time I'd done this was on the Asus Zenbook UX330UA some years back. I thought the process would be different, but it was largely similar.
I first got the iso …