You could call it a blog

  • flatpak-desktop
    20 November 2018

    In the never ending quest to have the most up to the minute desktop features yet a supxera stable system I am currently using an Arch base ontop of a BTRFS filesystem then utilising contained packages like snaps and flatpaks to get none essential software. Currently favouring flatpaks for desktop stuff.

  • try-graphile
    16 October 2018

    I saw a post about (graphile)[https://www.graphile.org/] and thought it sounded like a great way to take a DB and use via a javascript client very easily.

  • Using systemd to mount my USB drives
    19 September 2018

    I setup my really old tower pc as a server for my house. I cant sell it (coz its shit) and hate throwing stuff away.

  • Bluetooth + PulseAudio in my terminal life
    4 September 2018

    I recently swapped from Arch Linux to SolusOS to give it a try… its really great distro and good for a work and home machine being great for development and gaming.

  • Find -exclude
    30 May 2018

    I was looking for a --exclude flag in the gnu find tool, there is not one, for good reason I guess but I wanted it without having to dive in and learn about -prune (you lazy bastard!), so anyway, I did this:

  • More ways to install packages in arch
    23 April 2018

    Arch moves pretty fast and is really stable considering.

  • Install Arch on a usb stick
    17 April 2018

    Some steps to follow in order to install Arch Linux on a USB stick (from an existing Arch Linux)

  • ReactJS controlled/uncontrolled warning
    17 November 2017

    I was tinkering with some ReactJS code and I occasionally came across the following warning when using form inputs.

  • Check those SSL certs
    13 November 2017

    I had to update some ssl certs using a cloud service UI and cli tool. I was not sure which SSL certs I needed, so I checked the current config using these nifty command line tools, summerised like so:

  • Rspec matcher truncated too much
    2 November 2017

    I was in a situation where I needed to get rspec failure output NOT to shorten the output of a failed match.. apparently there is option in works but right now I could use this.