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'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 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 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 …
I use ultisnips for my snippets. To set this up, I have this in vimrc:
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'SirVer/ultisnips' | Plug 'honza/vim-snippets' " Snippet support
call plug#end()
let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<c-e>" " Default is <tab>
let g:UltiSnipsEditSplit="vertical"
let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories=["UltiSnips", "mysnippets"]
This …
Kindle saves highlights, bookmarks and notes in a My Clippings.txt file. I needed a way to parse it and filter out the content I wanted. I also wanted to work on a parser in haskell, so this was a great opportunity to get my hands dirty.
I used stack …
The timeit module provides an easy way to time python code. I use it to check if a new code implementation runs faster than an older implementation.
Example usage of this is:
import timeit
timeit.timeit('list(range(100))')
def greet():
print('Hello World')
timeit.timeit(greet, number=4)
Timeit …
I've worked with codebases that have made me frustrated. Some of the **features** I've seen include: