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...
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...