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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
Nice, didn't think of that approach and It should work very well for the purposes of static headers and footers.
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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
One key benefit of putting up an own server is that there are no limitations on file types and much fewer restrictions on what kind of content you can create. For serving static files, I can (and have) lived a long time with one of the &quo
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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
Unlike Framesets I think XML includes were never really supported in many browsers (or even any major browsers)? I still like to use them occasionally but it incurs a "compilation" step to evaluate them prior to handing the result
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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
Nowdays it is sometimes the other way around: Pages are all JavaScript so no good experience in the first place. I have encountered difficulty trying to get a proper “link” to something multiple times. Also, given that Browsers love to redu
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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
Isn't this what proper framesets (not iframes) were supposed to do a long time ago (HTML 4?). At least they autoexpanded just fine and the user could even adjust the size to their preference. There was a lot of criticism for frames [
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by Linux-Fan 1y ago
There is even some sort of “de-facto” standard for this purposes: Debian COPYRIGHT files: < https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-forma... >. It may not be perfect for all cases (e.g. if some
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by Linux-Fan 2y ago
I usually try to avoid the "makefile effect" by learning the technolgoy I use reasonably frequently (like e.g. Makefiles, Shell Scripts, ...). However, despite the fact that I used to use LaTeX very much, I always copy-pasted from
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by Linux-Fan 2y ago
I am rather ambivalent about these rules. I disagree with a lot of the individual points, but I am also sure that I have probably often written bad tutorials myself where some of the rules would have clearly helped... :) > 5. Make code s
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by Linux-Fan 2y ago
I use Firefox + uMatrix to achieve a similar setup. One advantage of using only a script blocker in favor of a proper ad blocker is that I don't shut off reasonable ads but only the ones that do shady stuff with a lot of computation an
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by Linux-Fan 2y ago
I use a dedicated alarm clock. Recently, I have built my own: < https://masysma.net/37/dcf77_vfd_raspi_clock.xhtml > Before that (and now for redundancy, I think my own one still has some minor bugs), I used a chea
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by Linux-Fan 2y ago
What became of "don't ask to ask" ( https://dontasktoask.com/ )? Although it may take some getting used to, I find it convincing that one shouldn't need to ask about whether it'd be OK to ask for shor
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by Linux-Fan 2y ago
> * Simple markdown-like markup language with math support for my website/blog. I did it so that I get nice SVG equations that show up without things jumping around all the time while it's rendering. https://github.
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by Linux-Fan 2y ago
Productivity software for myself: I have added an undocumented option (--ical URL) to my script `mai3bar` that by default displays CPU, RAM and HDD usage alongside a wall time clock. When the `--ical` parameter is added, it detects whether
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by Linux-Fan 2y ago
To me its a sane choice on my own single-user machine. I used to create a top level `/data` directory to put my stuff into (before Android was widespread :) ). Nowdays, my data resides in `/data/main`. This scheme has served
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Of all the features that you have listed, I use only the syntax highlighting. I have never tried to turn it off for longer than a few minutes when it worked. When it is broken (e.g. wrongly coloring stuff) I sometimes turn it off, but this
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Working over SSH is not the only TUI advantage: IMHO one of the greatest benefits of TUIs is the usage of characters to display the UI. This way, the font size is always equal (no unreadably small fonts). When designing TUIs I found this to
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Strongly resonates. The first time I saw the CLI Guidelines I even stopped reading them upon reaching that section. This time I read through the remainder and found it quite OK.
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
> Content-addressed backups sound something like how git stores data, is that the best way to think about them? I think it is a valid way to consider them. Another option is to think of the backup as a special kind of file system snapsho
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
> I've seen RSS styling before but it does feel like an oddity. I think I'm so used to the code view that when I see a styled feed page, it makes me wonder if I'm on the real URL. But at least the page does explain itself
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
One of the major benefits of software is that you do _not_ need to re-create it if it already exists and solves your problem. An unmaintained app that solves a specific problem is never going to break by itself “in a not distant future”. On
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Termshark can be a live saver if you need to analyze large packet captures. The GUI of Wireshark was almost unusable with some large (30 GiB or something?) capture on my development laptop and some filters. Termshark did not process that da
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Writing should certainly go first. But once you have passed the first iteration of your own self-built static site generator or website the "initial" content may already be there from the previous iteration. I certainly learned to
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Indeed, thank you for pointing this out. I have added a footnote to the page accordingly.
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
They missed the most prevalent everyday use of water pipes (except for their originally intended use cases maybe...): < https://www.country-reiten.de/magazin/tipps-tricks/112-klein... >
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Bupstash ( https://bupstash.io/ ) beats Borg and Kopia in my tests (see https://masysma.net/37/backup_tests_borg_bupstash_kopia.xhtm... ). It is a modern take very close to what Borg offers regarding the
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
I have started to use this system shortly after having first heard of it. I think the greatest challenge is that as I constantly create new things while only completing a fraction of them, I'd end up with a very “sparse” set of numbers
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Having never written anything in Rust but read and “translated” some code (maybe 3k LOC?) from Rust to Ada, I can tell that I found Rust rather hard to read and harder than e.g. Ruby (which I also do not know how to write but translated to
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
Maybe I am biased because I work in embedded :) Before that I also encountered similar issues at the other end of the performance spectrum: When working with parallelized C++ code that required more than 64 GiB of RAM the overhead of a debu
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
I am personally also not using debuggers much -- I think within the two last years it was only the backtrace functionality of gdb twice for a crashing C program :) I still wonder whether it would make sense to learn more about using them, t
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by Linux-Fan 3y ago
It is also in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cool-retro-term I have it installed here and rarely use it (daily driver is urxvt), but it occasionally pops up when a GUI program wants to launch a terminal

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