Daniel Perelman
The problem# I returned to my desktop to find an error message saying the screensaver was unable load, and it wouldn't show the password box to unlock the screen. When I logged in via SSH from a different device and reattached to a Screen session I had previously started from inside my X session,...
Amedee
I recently fell into one of those algorithmic rabbit holes that only the internet can provide. The spark was a YouTube Short by @TechWithHazem: a rapid-fire terminal demo showing a neat little text-processing trick built entirely out of classic Linux tools. No frameworks, no dependencies, just...
Toomas Vahter
Swift’s foundation library provides a sorted(by:) function for sorting arrays. The areInIncreasingOrder closure needs to return true if the closure’s arguments are increasing, false otherwise. How to use the closure for sorting by multiple criteria? Let’s take a look at an example of sorting an...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# Last week, I shared a script which continuously backed up game saves whenever the game saved. The result is a series of directories that contain snapshots of the game saves from every autosave. But to view this data, we really want a list of unique files in order marked with the time...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I wanted to find a specific Unicode character I had used somewhere in some previous blog post. But by the nature of not knowing exactly what character it was, I wasn't sure how to search for it. The solution# Instead, I wrote a script based on this post to simply list all of the...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I've been playing Codenames online a lot lately (using my fork of codenames.plus), and a friend suggested it might be fun to have themed word lists. Specifically, they suggested Star Trek as a theme as it's a fandom that's fairly widely known. They left it up to me to figure out what...