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Senior Web Engineer. Open web / music. Remote DJ. Tall Dutch guy. #3million

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If you send email using `noreply@` then think about why you're not having a human contact? Why are you sending email and missing out on starting a conversation? That's bad business. It also flags you as a potential spammer.

 

Looking for a way to checkout the same git repos on two machines. Moving the files into cloud sync causes trouble so maybe there’s a tool that export git repo definitions from a folder structure?

 

My server ran out of space, it turns out NextCloud was holding on to 30GB of trash! Fixed as per https://bayton.org/docs/nextcloud/nextcloud-hoarding-trash-how-to-force-automatic-removal-of-deleted...

 

elementaryOS is the comfy slippers of Linux distributions. If Apple ever ruins their privacy game, this is where I will end up.

 

Firefox's spelling checker wasn't working for me, and unfortunately it doesn't support the macOS default one, so I was seeing a lot of spelling errors. I fixed it by installing the recommended links at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/language-tools/

 

I’ve FINALLY setup a BookStack instance (trivial, once I sorted out a Let's Encrypt issue) for reference documentation. Find it at https://brain.vandragt.com. The ‘pages’ functionality for Known is pretty weak, and I think Bookstack will give me a good organisational structure by default, rather than hacking around in other systems. The Braindump will help me note down things I learn and collate my snippets.

I'll move my reference documentation from my site into it over time.

 

When a website looks good people will be drawn in; when the experience is good people will come back.

 

If you need a few minutes of calm in these worrying times, try listening to Ólafur Arnalds https://open.spotify.com/artist/7E3BRXV9ZbCt5lQTCXMTia?si=iqlvP-3NRQGqOAcZ93DUbw

 

Tip: when opening food containers write the DoO (Date of Opening) on the container with a sharpie. Never guess if something is in date!

 

Ready to give up on Python for cli tools and switch to nim or crystal or whatever. Creating and distibuting a standalone executable shouldn't be this hard.

 

I updated the "Auto-Update Nextcloud" post with a new version of the script to update the installed apps as well! https://vandragt.com/2020/auto-update-nextcloud

 

All my local shops have run out of hand gel sanitizer, but still have bars of soap available. It’s very weird as the latter is more effective in getting rid of dirt and virus from your hands.

 

I've written up my thought on my bookmarking setup: https://vandragt.com/pages/bookmarking-tools

 

My hackable blog framework is nearing a 0.4 milestone and I’m very excited to have containerised the project and added basic API documentation using phpDox. Sneak preview the master branch at https://github.com/svandragt/cuttlefish

 

Added a quick example to the wp_schedule_event() codex page as all the examples provided are broken in some way. https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_schedule_event/

 

I didn't know that Chassis extensions can be installed globally http://docs.chassis.io/en/latest/extend/#globally-installing-extensions

 

Started something that potentially might simplify WordPress development.

 

I’m looking for a macOS tool that intercepts opening URLs and let me specificy regexes and associate them with browsers, so that when I open certain links from slack they always go into my project browser. Any ideas?

 

It turns out Breakmaster Cylinder's full discography (https://breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com/) is the perfect music to do creative work to.

 

Thinking whether to renew http://appsubscriptions.com