The most important data I keep is my photo library. Decades worth of memories are not something I want to lose. This is data that’s…
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In my first real homelab experiment, I replaced Spotify with Audiobookshelf and Plappa. How I can download my favourite podcasts to my home server, and stream them from my phone, remotely.
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I’ve been a long time user of Backblaze for cloud-based backups. This post is just me sharing a tool I recommend.
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In a world where open source project maintainers need to deal with angry bots.
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One of my side projects for this year is to begin setting up my “home lab”. It will be a great learning experience, open hub…
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For decades now, I’ve used spreadsheets to help build SQL statements instead of using import tools in SQL desktop apps.
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Today I learned about the history command in bash. In particular, a keyboard shortcut (!!) to execute the previous command.
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The bash `type` command – showing you how a command would be executed. Wish I knew about this 20 years ago….
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I was out for a walk a few weeks ago and came across the house pictured above, under construction in my neighbourhood. This reminded me…
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I have generally been unimpressed with AI as a coding assistant, at least where it’s built into my IDE. (My experimenting as been with GitHub…
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