January wrap-up Since this doesn’t appear in my own previous ‘tips to myself‘ I’m documenting it to myself here: The option for disabling wrapping is:… Read More »pandoc micro tip: disabling line wrap / newlines
From the “many Bothans died” files Today I had a rather lengthy issue, the full story of which can be told another time. But part… Read More »Protip: Xen DomU crashing? Add on_crash = “preserve”
I do mean quick tl;dr: I use a function to quickly import a region: imp filename; drag a region, done. See below for details. Hey… Read More »Quick tip: Region Screenshot from CLI
Do it not the easy way, and not the hard way, but some other way Context During a Subscriber Crown, I assign teams (usually) to… Read More »Proactive Laziness: Extract Team Names from a ROM using awk
Tip your server Context I’m doing more reports like the one I mentioned in the pandoc tips post. The final format is docx, but I… Read More »More Vim Tips to Myself
Make it pop Background For one my my recent Subscriber Crowns I had the need to quickly ‘enhance’ some images for a slideshow- make them… Read More »A Quick GIMP Script to ‘Pop’ an Image
With bonus LibreOffice content! Background I’ve been using pandoc for a few years now as part of my workflow in sending out minutes of a… Read More »Pandoc to docx: tips for myself
blOenBdeSr Virtual conferences are popular, but many request a pre-prepared video to explain a paper or a poster. Many conferences suggest using Zoom as means… Read More »For Short Conference Videos: Use OBS and Blender (with tips!)
Note: I write this from the perspective of an awk beginner, which I am! This is a pretty basic example, and I make some simplifications… Read More »One-liner: Count total duration based on difference of begin/end
Many hours died to bring you this information tl;dr: run grub-install –target=x86_64-efi –efi-directory=<espdir> –removable if following the Arch Linux install guide I acquired a Dell… Read More »PSA: Dell Wyse 3040 Uses ‘Fallback’ EFI Location