I am busy moving away from my VeraEdge installation to a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because it looks like the maker of the VeraEdge was bought and it is slowly being phased out. For this I am using the following parts: ...
This is intended as a quick reference and showcase. For more complete info, see John Gruber's original spec and the Github-flavored Markdown info page. Headers Source: ...
NanoWiki is a Wiki implementation based on picowiki. I have been using SimpleNote for a number of years. It works pretty well but somehow I was looking for: Ability to include and render nice asciiart pictures Organizes articles in a folder structure. ...
As part of my small project of movng my Z-Wave Hub to a Raspberry PI, I got an X728 kit. This has: UPS controller board RTC circuit ...
This is a tiny library to implement Web server embedded editor. You can find it in github. Can be used either from haserl or directly from a shell script. Features: ...
photoprism is a web based photo management application. From its website: PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, ...
In a previous article, I updated a supervisorui project to work for me. This updated version supervisorui-redone is essentially a PHP application which is a different approach from the original supervisorui project which was more of a JavaScript application with some helper functionality implemented in PHP. As such, I figured that I could probably fix the supervisorui code base ...
Currently I am using docker containers to deploy applications. A number of those containers make use of supervisord for managing processes. While supervisord itself comes with a UI, it is unhandy for me because each container is its own supervisord instance. So I was interested in some software that would let me manage multiple supervisord instances in a single page. Turns out that there ...
This recipe is for setting virtualization on a voidlinux desktop. Use this setup script to set things up on void linux. Connecting to libvirtd Note that virsh and virt-manager commands connect to different libvirtd sessions by defauult. virsh defaults to qemu:///session while virt-manager to qemu:///system. ...
Unicode Can be useful for looking up unicode code points. Particularly useful for looking up accented characters. Another interesting use is for UI graphics characters. Unicode search Another site to search for unicode characters. ...
This comes in handy when working at a colo or someplace where you don't have a mouse and then find yourself needing to use X11. Press the following key combo: Ctrl-Shift-Numlock Now you can control the mouse pointer using the number pad. The key bindings are: ...
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app. Snap vs Flatpak ...
I always had issues remembering how to create releases. So in order to standardise things, I wrote this script: ghrelease So whenever I am ready to release I would then just issue ...
So I was looking for a way to version control database schemas, but I never found something that worked for me. I found all these options that never seem to match what I wanted: metabase dbv ...
This is my lnbin script. This is a program for managing symlink in a /usr/local/bin directory. It is similar to stow, lndir, cleanlinks and others. The approach used by lnbin is based on Stow, and it is to install each into its own tree, then use symbolic links to make its bin ...
A quick note on how to add icons to menus in a Linux desktop. Create the icon image in: /usr/share/pixmaps. png and svg (and maybe others) are supported. 24x24 seems to be a good size for menus. ...
This is my op script. This is stupidly simple script to elevate priviledges in order to manage NFS shares on my QNAP NAS. The idea is that NFS shares do squash-root so admin access is disallowed through NFS. This gives a convenient way to issue root level commands without using NFS but instead use ssh ...
Sudoers Since sudo v1.9, it is possible to use the following statements: #includedir @includedir ...
I have enabled several extensions to my pelican website. One that I wanted to include was graphviz. So, I searched for one and while I found a few, they somehow, did not work for me. So I wrote my own: mdx_graphviz. It is quite straight forward. You just need to create blocks: dot { ...
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