Apr 04, 2022 from Randall Degges Does Music Help You Focus? I’ve always been the sort of person who works with music in the background. Ever since I was a little kid writing code in my bedroom, I’d routinely listen to my favorite music while programming. Ov...
Apr 04, 2022 from Randall Degges Real Estate vs Stocks As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a bit of a personal finance nerd. I’ve been carefully tracking my spending and investing for many years now. In particular, I find the investing side of personal finan...
Feb 28, 2022 from Randall Degges Journaling: The Best Habit I Picked Up in 2021 2021 was a challenging year in many ways. Other than the global pandemic, many things changed in my life (some good, some bad), and it was a somewhat stressful year. In March of 2021, I almost died...
Feb 18, 2022 from twilweb Set Flameshot shortcut on ubuntu Open ubuntu Settings-> Keyboard shortcuts Click on + at the bottom to add custom shortcut and use command ‘flameshot gui’ with key combination of your choice :
Feb 06, 2022 from Hammy Havoc Interview with IMakeFOSS I did an interview with IMakeFOSS! I discuss free and open-source software, including Linux, and PipeWire. I’m also curating the @imakefoss Twitter account for the week of February 7th to 14th. I’l...
Jan 30, 2022 from Randall Degges How to Calculate the Energy Consumption of a Mac I’m a bit of a sustainability nerd. I love the idea of living a life where your carbon footprint is neutral (or negative) and you leave the world a better place than it was before you got here. Whi...
Jan 10, 2022 from bearblog Bottle Deposits are Bad Policy Bottle Deposits are a popular environmentalist policy worldwide. However, they are a bad policy that imposes outweight costs on society while barely helping the environment.
Jan 08, 2022 from bearblog What are you really doing when you fill in an hCaptcha It's not clear exactly why hCaptcha gives the challenges that it does, but it's certainly more interesting than you might think to take a closer look and try and work out how it all ticks.
Dec 30, 2021 from bearblog New Things of 2021 It's getting to be the end of 2021 - so it's a good time to look through some of the things I bought over the year, and reflect on how they've turned out. Some of them have been rubbish of course, ...
Dec 28, 2021 from bearblog My IDE Broke Last week my IDE broke. I tried to fix it and failed, and then I realised I was a failure as a software developer.
Dec 28, 2021 from twilweb simple API load testing using k6 A very lightweight and powerful tool to loadtest any http endpoints is k6. It allows you to run basic javascripts in parallel for any duration. You can tweak the number of parallel threads and the ...
Dec 25, 2021 from bearblog You block ads in your browser, why not in your city? There are defences against badvertising on the internet, and you should use them. But there are defences against bad advertising in real life too, and you should use them too. Put badvertising in i...
Dec 23, 2021 from bearblog Searching for Nothing, Finding a Surprise Search engines are a fact of daily life for most of the population nowadays. Google (sub your preferred provider) is an extension of the brain, imagined as giving you access to the sum of the world...
Dec 22, 2021 from bearblog Drinking From the (Musical) Firehose on YouTube YouTube provides a great experience for music discovery, but sometimes it's nice to break out of your filter bubble and be the first ever person to listen to a brand new song.
Dec 21, 2021 from bearblog No, California Is Not Going to Take Your Generator Away It's time to read the docs and learn what the law really says, before getting in a huff about your generator losing its puff.
Oct 09, 2021 from twilweb Useful activemq cli Retry all messages from a Dead letter queue : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60155678/activemq-how-to-resend-retry-dlq-messages-programmatically Send a message to a queue curl -u admin:admin -...
Oct 03, 2021 from Randall Degges How I Converted a REST API I Don't Control to GraphQL I’ve been building and working with REST APIs for many years now. Recently, however, I’ve been spending more and more of my time working with (and building) GraphQL-based APIs. While GraphQL has ge...
Aug 22, 2021 from ~hedy Setting up syntax highlighting for Hugo Hugo uses chroma as its syntax highlighter. All you need for having your code highlighted is to let chroma put the syntax classes in the generated HTML, for the correct language, and then make sure...
Jun 16, 2021 from ~hedy Multiple emails in git for different computers As someone who code on multiple machines to work on different projects, I like to commit with different emails. I don’t know how everyone else handle different emails in .gitconfig and track dotfil...
