fighting the lack of good ideas
We raise chickens. For the last few years, we’ve only had layers – and they’ve all been full-grown by the time they arrived at our home. This year, we decided to buy some chicks because our layers are starting to age-out of being able to lay, and we’re interested in trying our hand at raising…
I’ve recently been asked by several people to investigate websites (especially e-commerce ones) for reliability/legitimateness. Thought someone else may find my process useful, and/or have some ideas on how to improve it ? So here goes: Pop a terminal window (I’m on a Mac, so I open Terminal – feel free to use your terminal…
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Via the rands-leadership Slack (in the #i-wrote-something channel), I found an article written on ChealseaTroy.com that was [the last?] in her series on course design. While I found part 9 interesting, I was bummed there were no internal links to the other parts of the series (at least to previous parts (even if there may…
I found out about sshuttle from a random tweet that happened to catch my eye. Here’s the skinny (from the readme): Your client machine (or router) is Linux, FreeBSD, or MacOS. You have access to a remote network via ssh. You don’t necessarily have admin access on the remote network. The remote network has no…
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After a friend of mine told me he wanted to deploy Jitsi on my main webserver, and me saying “sure”, I decided I wanted to get it up and running on a new server both so I knew how to do it, and to avoid the latency issues of videoconferencing from central North America to…
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I want to backup all of the MySQL databases on my server on a routine basis. As I started asking how to get a list of all databases in MySQL on Stack Overflow, I came across this previous SO question, entitled, “Drop All Databases in MySQL” (the best answer for which, in turn, republished the…
Starting from a tutorial I found recently, I want to share how to change your default font in Windows 10 – but in a shorter edition than that long one (and in, I think, a less-confusing way). Back in the Good Ole Daysâ„¢, you could easily change system font preferences by right-clicking on your desktop,…