It turns out being an adult is mostly Googling how to do stuff.
chawley If you don’t know already, beets is a command line python program meant to automatically sort music. If you do know already, how have you set up your config file? Here’s mine: Save it in $HOME/.config/beets/config.yaml Obligatory “how much music do you have” dick measuring contest From this Reddit thread: For those of you using … Read more
I’m no bibliophile, but I’ve read a lot of books and recently while discussing the “book was better” trope of horror movies, we talked about how it is pretty common knowledge that Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick’s take on his story of “The Shining”. Not because it was better, but because Kubrick fundamentally changed the … Read more
To get UFW to work well with Docker, you have to add some rules to the bottom of /etc/ufw/after.rules Adding Rules Then you can add rules. Always add rules with comments. Examples below: Show active rules with Reference(s):
Summary Do you work on Linux machines? Do you only have a Windows machine from which to connect? Then you’re probably already using PuTTY. Well, step aside PuTTY, there’s a new terminal client in town. KiTTY is a fork of the original PuTTY software, with loads of new features, including a portable version that saves … Read more
I finally made use of the front license plate holder on my car.Better is the view from your rearview mirror if I’m behind you.
wget multiple files In the above example, -r and -l1 options together enable 1-level deep recursive retrieval, and -A option specifies lists of file name suffixes to accept during recursive download (.mp3 in this case). ways to wget entire webpage This one works so well, I’ve created an alias for it: Other options: Modify User … Read more
Backstory: I’ve been either paying for or using 3rd part apps for Read-It-Later (Pocket), Hosted Bookmarks (Raindrop.io) and an RSS Feedreader (Inoreader) for about a year. In the interest of 1) teaching myself Docker and 2) decoupling from hosted solutions I have finally replaced all three of the above apps with docker containers. I am … Read more
My long, winding path to Markdown notes nirvana For years I’ve been looking for a cross-platform markdown editor. There are several good ones out there, but several are not free or they’ve got built-in workflows that I would need to either adapt or fight against. For the last several years my notes have consisted of … Read more
The year was 1994. I was working apartment maintenance and had a healthy interest in computers. I also had a IBM XT knockoff in my apartment connected to a 56K modem. One of the benefits of apartment maintenance is the lost and found that occurs when people move out quickly. Things of value usually get … Read more