Occasionally, when I need an application on Arch Linux that either isn’t available or is poorly maintained, I often find its available as a snapcraft/snaps package. Snaps packages are provides by Canonical and are intended […]
VS Code is an increasingly popular IDE for coding in Python, created by Microsoft. This version is available from the AUR. You can install MS VS Code with the following. There is also an open […]
If you’re looking to do the same thing on Ubuntu 18.04 – checkout my previous post. Check the python version – hopefully you’ve got the latest 3.x version. Python2 is now deprecated but you’ll need […]
i3 does not support compositing and true transparency is achieved using picom – a standalone compositor for Xorg. This is already installed and running on my system at start-up: Here we can see that i3 […]
Here I demo encrypting home directories, post installation, using eCryptfs. It should be noted here that encrypting just your home directory is not recommended as it carries with it potential security risks. Any data outside […]
Life is simple again with this great little tool! You can find out more about it from their website, https://youtube-dl.org, but as you might be able to guess – it allows one to download video […]
In a previous article I demonstrated how to get started with AWS by creating a public IPv4 VPC and subnet before creating a new EC2 instance. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how the same can […]
If your just getting started with AWS, one of the first things you will likely want to do is quickly create an EC2 instance. In order to do that however, you will need to create […]
This is a handy command line tool that can calculate subnets for you. For example. It should be available in the community repository. If you’re using pamac, you can check with. And the install it […]
I need a read-only user to monitor the state of a MySQL databases. This can be done by simply granting only the select privilege on a particular database to a given user. You can check […]
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