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Introduction Several years ago now, I decided to stop using Spotify as my primary means of listening to music, for reasons which I may or may not expand on in a future blog post, but which primarily boil down to three key points: Privacy concerns: while t…

Introduction I didn’t get as much reading done in March as I had hoped, as I was laid low with sickness twice: the first time, with a case of strep throat that the doctor described rather bluntly as “very bad” — not exactly hope-inspiring words to hear fr…

Introduction When I created this blog, its purpose was primarily to give me a place to put my thoughts on issues that mattered to me but that were mind-numbingly boring to any other reasonable person, and in keeping with that original spirit, I want to ta…

Introduction Over the past few months, I have been making an effort to regain the rate of reading that I once had as a child, and in the process of doing so I thought that it might be nice to document the books that I complete each month so that I can keep

The national flag of Ireland The Importance of Orange You probably don’t need me to tell you that the flag in the above image is the national flag of Ireland.

Introduction Roughly two years ago now, I created my utility_scripts repository on GitHub, which contains all the scripts that I’ve written for use on my GNU/Linux laptop.

Introduction On a UNIX-like system, one often has the need to edit a write-restricted file and thus to escalate one’s privileges to do so; the obvious approach that might initially occur to you is to use sudo vim or sudo $EDITOR to edit the file with supe…

An interactive affiliation network built for blog posts & tags on this website Introduction Hugo websites typically consist of blog posts, which are organised into taxonomies with the use of tags.

Introduction Anchor links are hyperlinks that link to a different section within the current webpage or document, rather than to an external webpage, thus allowing for links to be shared to specific sections of a webpage and for a table of contents with c…

Although I now forget the context, a friend once sent me a snippet of shell code that he was using to remove symbolic links to files on his computer, using a shell command that I had never seen before: unlink.

A concern that may occur to you when you are designing a website is whether or not the font that you are using is “web-safe”, meaning that the user will be able to render it on their end when they load your webpage because they already have that font on t…

Introduction First of all, I’m not trying to tell you how to speak; how you speak is entirely up to yourself.

If you’ve ever gotten an Iarnród Éireann train from anywhere west of Portarlington to Dublin, you’ll have passed through a railway station named “Sallins & Naas”.

First Year of University In my first year of university, I took pen & paper notes, using a designated refill pad and binder per class.

What is qutebrowser?

Introduction Memorising (or “learning”) the fretboard refers to when an individual learns which musical notes correspond to what positions on the fretboard of their instrument, a skill that is useful for playing just about any instrument that has frets.

Introduction Normally, when videos such as lecture recordings are posted to Canvas, there is a “Download file.mp4” or similar link available on the page, or at the very least you can right-click on the playing video and select “Save media”.