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If you’ve used nvm (Node Version Manager) for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed the shell startup delay.

Disclaimer: This post was written by Claude with my direction!

Sometimes I want to run long jobs overnight on my laptop, or even charge my phone while the laptop is closed in my backpack (getting USB to have power when suspended is another longstanding problem).

When running a command, it’s often useful to save output to a file while also displaying it on the terminal.

I had uploaded a post marked with the current date to GitHub, which has an action set up to rebuild Hugo and post to GitHub’s static page hosting.

Today, I was in the process of exporting a few batches of files from Google Photos.

As part of writing html_to_pdf.sh for programatically printing a webpage to PDF format, I encountered the problem of fonts appearing differently after having been output as PDF.

The resume I used for the majority of my life is a relic from university times, when I joined the Computer Science co-op program and applied for oodles of internship placements.

After attempting many different ways of getting Magisk to run on Android emulators (including Waydroid and the like), the only way that worked is using the official emulator from Google, along with the instructions from the following Gist: tothi/magisk_ra…

Google Photos has two methods of handling motion photos: If the photo was uploaded by an Android device, it will already be in Google’s custom format, which is essentially a JPEG file with a video file concatenated to the end.

In larger applications, there is usually a CI/CD process, which tests, builds, and deploys new versions of the software.

A typical post-receive hook for updating a target directory based on the most recent commit might look like this: #!

Match and exit This StackExchange question provides a snippet which runs a subprocess, saves its PID, and then ends the process when a certain output string is encountered in its output. sh -c 'echo "$$"; exec stdbuf -oL "$0" "$@"' my-program with its args

I was recently working with some CSV files pulled from a Samsung Health dump.

It turns out that using the Google Photos API is not particularly suited to organizing your photos collection.

Beware: Google Photos API is not suitable for reorganizing your photo collection.

After adding a motion photo into a shared album, Google Photos sometimes fails to show the triangular ▶ play button.

Lately, it’s almost impossible to open up Hacker News without encountering an article extolling the virtues of LLM-assisted programming.

In A brief foray into GNOME extension development, we looked at the general process of updating a GNOME extension to work on a newer version of GNOME.

I used to be an exclusive user of tiling window managers, namely: xmonad.