Category for posts on various tools
For a side project I’ve been looking into static site generators and came across MkDocs or more specifically Material for MkDocs, which bundles a nicer theme and some useful default plugins into one package and with great documentation. As the name implies MkDocs was primarily developed to write documentation, but it also works quite nicely […]
Most people have seen or probably even done some workflow automations through IFTTT (IF This Then That) or Zapier. While the free plans on either of these platforms are enough for some very simple workflows, anything a bit more complicated comes at a price (e.g. for Zapier $19.99/month), granted even then IFTT remains attractive ($2.50/month […]
A short post on how to update all the packages for various package managers, be it programming language specific ones, or ones from OS-level package managers. For all the times you want to get your system up-to-date on all fronts. If you have some other package manager commands, post them as comment below! WinGet Chocolatey […]
The other week I got a new hard disk of the spinning kind, to sort through some of my accumulated backups, VSTs, game files, videos, recordings, etc. etc. – no, I’m totally not a data hoarder. To move some old system backup from one disk to an other, I used robocopy, as the file paths […]
In my previous Black Holes of Information post I highlighted how “social” platforms can really destroy the searchability, accessibility and longevity of information on the internet in multiple ways. Similarly, if you want to build applications, website, tools for the future, build them with boring, old technologies. The Lindy Effect is a concept that suggests […]
“If your browser can show it, you can download it”, doesn’t just apply to text and images, but also to videos. A lot of video players won’t allow you to download the video and the hosting sites will sometimes try very hard to make it near impossible to do so. It’s really a symptom of […]
When hosting an application, you may sometimes have directories in the public directory, which you don’t want to be accessible from the web. 90% of the web will explain how to use a .htaccess file, but this of course doesn’t work when using Nginx. After digging through various obscure posts, I finally managed to find […]
Just a very brief post, as I just found out that GitHub offers quite a few nice keyboard shortcuts. Official GitHub Keyboard Shortcuts Documentations It’s a long list which I find feels overwhelming so I rarely actually pick up any and just close the page. To counter this, here are a few I found quite […]
Switching between VMs, dealing with the unfamiliarity feeling of the different OS and windowing system, and having your work-in-progress source code spread across multiple systems can become rather annoying and easily lead to a loss of motivation. For quite some time, I’ve been trying to get the Scancode feature finalized for SFML and experienced the […]
Last year I got a Raspberry Pi 4 and it’s two main purposes so far have been to run Pi Hole and serve as a build server for SFML. I didn’t really notice at the time, that I installed quite an old version of Raspbian and as SFML is finally making the push towards C++17, […]