I get and send bad questions. To avoid this, I write my questions in my editor, review and then copy them to the platform e.g. slack, email. My questions are better, which makes me wonder if there are other changes that could further improve my questions.
A lot of …
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: