Keyboard Fixing Failed!
Wherein I try, and fail, to fix my wife’s notebook keyboard. An informative youtube video about changing keys in a laptop keyboard is included.
Category: General Hacking
Making the ActivityPub wordpress plugin work
Where I dive into github discussion boards, discover that my apache is not configured correctly, and make my blog readable from the Fediverse (hopefully!)
Testing Activity Pub Support
I’ve installed the ActivityPub plugin to this blog. In theory, this should allow people to follow my blog from the Fediverse (mastodon, etc). Let’s see if it works. And since just making a test post is boring, let me add that I’ve recently put all my pico8 games on itch. You can find it here!
Making a RSS feed by hand
RSSs are cool. They allow people to follow webpages. They don’t get stuck in spam filters. They give people power over the web. I wanted to create a RSS feed for the Alife newsletter. The Alife newsletter is built from hand-made python scripts that parse multiple markdown files, so I had to learn how to […]
Amazing command of the day: shuf
Today I learned an amazing bash command: shuf. It shuffles the lines of an input file, and prints them to the standard output. This is super useful when you want to sample a few lines from a very large file, to have an idea of its contents. See the image below for details: I learned […]