Rich Grundy

I’ve recently revived my Arch Linux desktop — I use Arch, btw — and moved to Hyprland.

I can never remember how to do various things with gpg, despite using it for encryption and signing git commits.

I have a Linux NAS/Plex server at home that serves as storage for backups and all my media.

I like to repurpose keys I never use, such as caps lock, into additional modifier keys, often referred to as Hyper or MEH keys.

I recently embarked on a dotfiles cleanup journey.

For years, I've used this alias in my gitconfig: [alias] work = !"

A sleek, low-profile, wireless 60% mechanical keyboard with hot-swappable switches!

Ngrok allows you to expose your local development port from behind NAT to the internet.

So, you have an Array that you need to make unique in Javascript?

At work, we came across a performance issue on one of our pages.

For some reason, I never thought to check until now.

ZeroTier (ZT) lets you create lightweight and easy to set up peer-to-peer VPNs.

TL;DR It turns out lots of bookmarks for remote servers slows things down.

We had an interesting bug this week at work.

Today I was using Git blame trying to work out who changed a line of code.

On Friday, I reserved a Steam Deck.

This post is about the Linux pipe viewer command, or pv.

This is a beginners guide on how to compress and uncompress using Linux's tar command.

The other day I needed to extract some files from a raw disk backup; problem is I never remember the commands and always have to look them up.

👋 A 2025 Update While a lot of this guide is still relevant (I reference it from time to time), there are a few things I do differently now.

Part two in a series of posts detailing the services we use at work.

This post covers continuous integration for Rails and is part one of a series of posts that detail the services my team uses at work.

Due to the recent OpenSSL issues (Heartbleed) I've been rekeying my SSL certificates and as part of that I've needed to update the Subsonic key.

It's always a good idea to backup your data; it gives you protection from data loss and hardware failure.

I've written a simple backup script in Ruby that utilises Rsync I've made it public so feel free to fork, change and contribute!

So the other day I decided to switch from using Apache to Nginx not because apache isn't any good, far from it.

I went to integrate Syntaxhighlighter into the site tonight, something I'd forgotten to do in the redesign and I thought it would be nice if I could just click a button in tinymce and paste in the code, select a few options and click insert.