Cybrkyd
Cybrkyd
I’m cybrkyd and this is where I blog. I’m not really a kid by age; more of a perpetual kid at heart! This blog is a collection of tips and tricks and guides that have helped me and will hopefully help someone else. I will also offer my own random thoughts and opinions. A proud script kiddie, I enjoy having fun finding cool and efficient ways of doing stuff. I use Linux, love FOSS, and have a lot of play dates with Python, SQL, CSS, HTML, PHP, bash.
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All posts (89)
I have man flu. This is a semi-fatal disease which affects males only. If you’re not male, there is no chance of understanding the disease, and it is quite common for non-males to poke fun at those who contract the man flu. Semi-fatal? Yes, that is correct – it almost ends your life or at the very least, it feels...
My Tor Browser installation is unusual. Rather than install it from my distribution’s repos, I grab the tar.xz file from torproject.org/download/, extract it and run it directly from there. I do the same with Firefox and Thunderbird, but that’s likely a story for another day. The system-wide cursor theme on Linux...
Something interesting – and perhaps concerning – when comparing my current ISP to my previous provider is how many websites Virgin Media blocks by default. The blocks appear to be over and above court-mandated blocks in the UK. I understand Parental Controls are used to block things like adult websites, gambling,...
Foggy days are here. For a few days over the past week or so, we have had some thick fog in the early mornings. It’s the sort of miserable fog which takes hours to lift. It dampens the mood, as the sun is not yet strong enough to burn through it quickly. Spring was in the air for one or two days last week, and some...
The new internet provider has connected me up, and boy is it fast. I ordered 1GB and am currently getting ~800 Mbps down. I cannot complain too much about that, especially when our ISPs in the UK have a disclaimer in their small print which says something along the lines of: You are paying for 1GB but in reality, we...
What a blur. We moved house to get closer to schools. We lasted exactly 13 months in the previous place. It was in an out-of-the-way village which was a bit too far out of the way. A real one-horse village, quite literally. I could hear it neigh on the odd occasion in the early hours. The move was swift. Five guys,...
Here is my workflow for self-hosting Git repositories on a shared hosting service with GitGen. The assumption is that I already have a Git repository on my local machine. My repositories are created with SHA256 by default because that future is coming. Therefore, the further assumption is that SHA256 is what will...
I drive German, but not an Audi. Mine is another finely engineered German make. You can’t beat German technology. They engineer everything to perfection, like the Japanese. If it’s German, it’s not just good, it is excellent. It’s in their DNA, I think. Today’s task required some of that precision engineering. The...
This one was a challenge to get through. Firstly, the firm had many, many technical issues which kept quite a few of us up until the wee hours. We do need to simplify; complexity brings with it a multitude of break points. Secondly, there was hardly any time to myself with all that mess going on. I did, however,...
There are always the small, one-time tasks where I need to figure out an easier, quicker way to accomplish something. This is one of those. The problem is simple enough: copy a table from Wikipedia. Grab it once, and move on. Copy and paste is usually my friend for browser-to-spreadsheet transfer, but some Wikipedia...
Here is a pretty graph. The way my Git commits across my repositories currently stand, the graph sort-of looks like it’s giving two middle-fingers to the GitHub-style version I made. It probably is. The GitHub-style graph was difficult to make. I eventually got it working and looking almost right, but having...
Another day and another GitHub outage, splashed on the front page of Hacker News. Haven’t I seen another outage of the same service on the front page recently? Yes, I have. Why not simplify? Why do tech nerds love adding multiple layers of complexity, often unnecessarily? And then cry about it when it all comes...
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