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August 13, 2026
Changing a bluetooth device alias in Linux
I have two external bluetooth keyboards. One for at home and one at my office at my gf's. They are the same keyboard. I wanted to rename them to distinguish on my Ubuntu laptop. I struggled to edit...
ReadAugust 10, 2026
Jesse – Carly Simon
This is the first soundtrack I wanted to write. I randomly heard this song recently and thought about the era when it was somewhat popular in the world, and very popular in my home. My brother and I...
ReadJanuary 12, 2026
Seconds
So: 1 second (s) = 1,000 milliseconds (ms) 1 second (s) = = 1,000,000 microseconds (μs) But, I want to work these into my day-to-day more, eg: "Sure, but give me a hectosecond." "He ran that...
ReadJanuary 8, 2026
PHP MySQL Heredoc to Test on Command Line
I recently needed to test a MySQL connection in a k8s pod without an editor installed and running as a non-privileged user without installation rights on a read-only filesystem. This snippet helped...
ReadNovember 30, 2025
How to Change Keyboard Layouts (Ubuntu 24.04 Wayland)
I have my wierd Ubuntu laptop keyboard mapped the way I want it, and bought a new bluetooth, ergonomic, portable keyboard whose mappings are also weird and hosed. I couldn't get them to play...
ReadNovember 30, 2025
How to Turn Off Auto-Maximize in Ubuntu
For some reason, I hate maximized windows. I like them to be "nearly maximized".
Don't get me started about "Full Screen". Ick. I'm an old-timey Alt-Tab guy so going full screen just...
September 25, 2025
.vimrc File Backup
There is no rhyme or reason to the structure, just a pile of settings. This has changed a lot since I moved to VSCode as my IDE; I removed a lot of the IDE-ish functionality I used to have with...
ReadSeptember 23, 2025
Binary Trees
EXCELLENT article on b-trees, with animations that make it very easy to understand: https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes Also a good video:...
ReadSeptember 17, 2025
Drill: Guess the Binary Number
I wanted to be able to read binary numbers better, mostly 0-255, because it is sometimes used in networking and because it's interesting to me right now. So, here's a little practice system:...
ReadSeptember 16, 2025
Drill: Guess the Hex Number
I wanted to be able to read hex numbers better, mostly 0-255, because it is sometimes used in networking and because it's interesting to me right now. So, here's a little practice system: Reveal...
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