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systemd services & timers in NixOS
systemd services and timers are a game changer if you’re used to cron jobs. This looks at a couple of simple real-life examples to show off the advantages.
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Elden Ring Linux performance settings
tl;dr Just set everything to max performance in CoreCtrl and you’re good to go.
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Bash lints beyond ShellCheck
ShellCheck is great, but it can’t catch everything. This is a collection of lints which I believe ShellCheck doesn’t currently detect.
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Faux idempotence
Writing idempotent code is great. It should always result in the same final state, so it’s easy to test. And a failed run shouldn’t affect the next one, making it reliable and safe. But as you’ve noticed I used “should” in both places, because code which looks idempotent may not be.
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Consistent fonts in Firefox
Are you sick of every single website using different fonts in the name of branding? You can easily force websites to use the browser default fonts:
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Rarotonga tourist tips
The Cook Islands recently opened up to tourists from New Zealand. Since the COVID-19 situation meant we wouldn’t be able to meet our family and friends without something like four weeks of hotel quarantine, we decided instead to take this first chance at an overseas experience in over a year. A friend happened to have booked a vacation overlapping a couple days with ours, so after arriving we met up for a chat. We learned a bunch of things about practicalities on the island, and this is a collection of those I can remember plus a few more we found out afterwards.
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Dependabot on GitLab
GitHub has made it as easy as six lines of YAML to get started with Dependabot, and I wanted to get as close to that as possible.
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JetBrains IDEA repository sync
If you have a paid version of IDEA, you probably already know that you can automatically sync your settings to the currently active account. That doesn’t cover all use cases though:
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echo 'I wrote a Bash book!' >> /dev/worldI wrote a book — The newline Guide to Bash Scripting! I’ll let the intro speak for itself:
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We need programming mentors
tl;dr Mentoring is probably the best way to advance the art of programming, by keeping hard-earned lessons fresh.