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aptitude why

Today I ran into an interesting question, why am I being asked to configure tzdata while installing npm. Turns out that the `aptitude` cli has a why command th

configure timezone

Today I ran into this interactive prompt on ubuntu while installing node and npm, and I do not want to manually configure this interactively every time I run an

bc

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KsS09YS4E&t=610s> Today I learned about the basic calculator, bc. At the very end of this video prime uses it to a

arch remove orphaned packages

playerctl fixes arch media keys

I've long had issues with my qmk keyboard media keys on my arch install, I always thought it was on the keyboard end. Today I learned that playerctl fixes

tailscale ssh

Tailscale allows you to ssh into all of your tailscale machines, it busts through firewalls and accross networks without complex setup. If you have used tailsc

just picker

[`just`](https://github.com/casey/just) has been by go to tool for saving commands in a way that I can replay them and have team members replay them without rel

showmount-e

TIL how to display the list of nfs mounts on your network. You can even look for mounts of other machines on your network.

Redka Runs on SQLite

With the liscense changes to redis there are several new forks out there. One that I am particularly interested in is [redka](https://github.com/nalgeon/redka)

Am I vulnerable to the xz backdoor?

The main system that I am concerned about is my arch BTW machine. I found a great [article](https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/) from

arch dependencies

paru has some nice features that I rarely use, and hav to look up when I need them. Here are two commands to help with dependency management. You can check all

How to kill ollama server

I recently updated [ollama](https://ollama.com/), and it now installs a systemd service that I was not expecting. Seems like a great option, but I hadn't

setting up paru | installing from the AUR for the ...

paru is an aur helper that allows you to use a package manager to install packages from the aur. What's the Aur The Aur is a set of community managed packa

Arch Linux Randomly Rejecting Passwords

Fix Arch Linux randomly rejecting passwords with one command. Try 'faillock --user $USER' to reset login counter and regain access. Quick solution for

ssh copy id

I recently setup some vm's on my main machine and got sick of signing in with passwords.

ssh key permissions

I just shared some ssh keys with myself and ran into this error telling me that I did not set the correct permissions on my key. I changed them with the followi

obs virtual camera on boot

For far too long I have had to fidget with v4l2oloopback after reboot. I've had this happen on ubuntu 18.04, 22.04, and arch. After a reboot the start vir

arch Fonts

https://gist.github.com/YoEight/d19112db56cd8f93835bf2d009d617f7

Manage your displays with xrandr manager

 xrandr is a great cli to manage your windows

qutebrowser clean up all status bars

I really like the super clean look of no status menus, no url bar, no bookmarks bar, nothing. Don't get me wrong these things are useful, but honestly the

A TTY Can Save Your Bacon

I recently was unable to boot into my home Linux Desktop, it got stuck at diskcheck `fsck`. I found that I was able to get in to a tty through a hotkey. https:

Dunk is my new diff pager

[Dunk](https://github.com/darrenburns/dunk) is a beautiful git diff tool built on top of [rich](https://github.com/Textualize/rich). Browsing through twitter th

Unzip minecraft mods to their directory from the c...

This morning I was trying to install a modpack on my minecraft server after getting a zip file, and its quite painful when I unzip everything in the current dir

Create a Swapfile on Your Linux Machine

If you ever end up on a linux machine that just does not have enough ram to suffice what you are doing and you just need to get the job done you can give it som

Install yq | A light weight yaml parser cli

`yq` is a command line utility for parsing and querying yaml, like `jq` does for json. This is for me I love that all of these modern tools built in go and rust

Git Worktrees are not so Scary

So worktrees, I always thought they were a big scary things. Turns out they are much simpler than I thought. Myth #1 _no special setup_ I thought you had to be

Setup SSH from chromebook to home desktop

I write many of these posts from a 10 year old desktop that sits in my office these days. It does a very fine job running all of the things I need it to for my

Dedupe your shell paths

If you have ever ran `which <command>` and see duplicate entries it's likely that you have duplicate entries in your $PATH. You can clean this up wi

Bash mktemp

There is GNU coreutils command called `mktemp` that is super handy in shell scripts to make temporary landing spots for files so that they never clash with anot

Recover a lost git branch with checkout

Once you give a branch the big D (`git branch -D mybranch`) its gone, its lost from your history. It's completely removed from your log. There will be no

Install obs flatpak

Big announcement recently that obs studio now builds out to a flatpak, hopefully making it easier for all of us to install, especially us near normies that don&

Vim remaps use cmd in place of :

Anyone just starting out their vim customization journey is bound to run into this error. I did not get it I'll admit, in hindsight it's very clear wh

Bluetooth at the command line on Ubuntu

One thing about moving to a tiling window manager like awesome wm or i3 is that they are so lightweight they are all missing things like bluetooth gui's ou

Simple Samba Share Setup

Samba is an implementation of the smb protocol that allows me to setup network shares on my linux machine that I can open on a variety of devices. I think the h

ag silver searcher look ahead and look behind

A super useful tool when doing PR's or checking your own work during a big refactor is the silver searcher. Its a super fast command line based searching

Installing Rust and Cargo on Ubuntu 21.10 using An...

Installing rust in your own ansible playbook will make sure that you can get consistent installs accross all the machines you may use, or replicate your develop

Neovim Config for Git

Creating a minimal config specifically for git commits has made running `git commit` much more pleasant. It starts up Much faster, and has all of the parts of

How to Properly Simulate Stow

Tmux and Vim Clipboard for Ubuntu

One of the first things I noticed broken in my terminal based workflow moving from Windows wsl to ubuntu was that my clipboard was all messed up and not working

Tmux hotkey for copier templates

I have added a hotkey to my copier template setup to quickly access all my templates at any time from tmux. At any point I can hit `<c-b><c-b>`, th

Copier Tasks | Python templating post run task

Copier allows you to run post render tasks, just like cookiecutter. These are defined as a list of `tasks` in your `copier.yml`. They are simply shell commands

fuzzy wallpaper with fzf

I really appreciate that in linux anything can be scripted, including setting the wallpaper. So everytime I disconnect a monitor I can just rerun my script and

Converting markdown to pdf with pandoc on linux

Converting markdown posts to pdf on ubuntu takes a few packages from the standard repos. I had to go through a few stack overflow posts, and nothing seemed to

Installing Pipx on Ubuntu

I recently paired up with another dev running windows with Ubuntu running in wsl, and we had a bit of a stuggle to get our project off the ground because they w

2 minutes to stow

Stow is an incredible way to manage your dotfiles. It works by managing symlinks between your dotfiles directory and the rest of the system. You can then make

Using Copier Answers to rerun templates quickly

The copier answers file is a key component to making your templates re-runnable. Let's look at the example for my setup.py. Inside of my `[[ _copier_conf.

Remove Vim Tab Characters

I've been stuck many times looking at a vim buffer with little question marks at the beginning of each line and trying to get rid of them. for so long I d

Tmux Pop size

tmux popups can be sized how you like based on the % width of the terminal on creation by using the flags (h, w, x, y) for height, width, and position. example

List all the files containing a phrase

One of the most useful skills you can acquire to make you faster at almost any job that uses a computer is getting good at finding text in your current working

My first impressions with pyenv

pyenv provides an easy way to install almost any version of python from a large list of distributions. I have simply been using the version of python from the o

Installing Homebrew on Linux

Installing brew on linux proved quite easy and got pyenv running for me within 4 commands. I had never used homebrew before, honestly I thought it was a mac onl

Serve html from your command line

When I first moved to vim from and ide like vscode or sublime text one of my very first issues was trying to preview my website at `localhost:8000`. There had