You should be backing up your password manager
It’s a bad idea to entirely rely on the company hosting your password manager to back up your data.
Category Archives: Free software
Hack of the day: keep the Emacs server running in the active login session
Prereqs for this hack being useful to you: (1) you use GNU Emacs; (2) you keep a single Emacs running in your session and use emacsclient to open files for editing in it; (3) you have Linux computers that use systemd on which you keep multiple concurrent login sessions open; and (4) you want emacsclient… Read More »
How to access your encrypted Linux system from the Ubuntu installer when your system won’t boot
I had to figure out the steps for myself by assembling pieces of it from many different web pages, so I’ve collected them all here for my benefit and yours.
Hack of the day “Jobs Filterer for LinkedIn”, Chrome extension for filtering lists of jobs in LI
I wrote a Chrome extension to filter job listings in LinkedIn because LinkedIn itself is bad at this.
The joy of contributing to a well-run open-source project
The Ansible team has been great to work with, and it makes me happy that my small efforts to contribute to this critical software were welcomed and facilitated.
Linux (systemd, NetworkManager): how to run a script on suspend before networking is shut down
How to reliably run a script that requires networking immediately before your computer suspends.
Hack of the day: simple python script for maintaining DNS records in Namecheap
You can use this script to maintain your Namecheap DNS records in a file which you can keep in source control!
Hack of the day: tool for maintaining a daily agenda in Toodledo
Pull your Toodledo tasks and calendar entries into a text file every morning, where you can edit, add, delete, and reorder them, and when you’re done the changes go back into Toodledo.
Python 3 port of open source email guardian TMDA (Tagged Message Delivery Agent)
I ported TMDA from Python 2 to Python 3 so I could keep using it on my mail server. Turns out somebody already did that, but here’s my port anyway in case it’s useful to someone.
Your data is yours: backing up your Mastodon data to protect against server failures and account suspensions
Long-time readers of my blog will know that I am obsessed with backups and with keeping control over data that belongs to me. For example, in additional to a comprehensive backup system I built myself, I have an archive of (legally obtained) music files and movies because I don’t trust any of the cloud music… Read More »