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)
Inspired by how Obsidian names Markdown files by title, I put together a small Python script which couples with a VS Code workspace task to achieve the same. Because tasks need to be manually run, a key-binding can be used to quicken the flow. The assumption is that the file is a Markdown file with the trigger flag...
Why not? Writing a weekly post looks like so much fun…let’s see how long I can last! I thoroughly enjoy reading what others have been busy doing over their past seven days that I want in. Maybe I need this -- like a relaxing exhale after a long, beep breath -- now that it’s the weekend. VS Code It has been a fun,...
There is one thing I miss terribly about the iPhone, and that is the seamless iCal integration. I’m on Android (Nokia X5), and subscribing to a remote iCal involves a few hoops, shuffles and dances. I have always made use of ICSx and it has worked flawlessly, enabling me to subscribe to remote iCals because Google...
What’s the saying? “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Maybe in this case, “necessity is the mother of DIY.” I invented absolutely nothing. I merely became so fed-up with (i) looking for my phone’s USB cable when I need it, or (ii) relying on sub-par file transfer applications, that I have finally fixed my...
Sometimes, I need a silly story to help me remember the obscure; things I do not use or do very often. Like git patching via e-mail. Here’s a little love story. --- Bob loves Alice. And Bob loves Alice’s git repository. Bob clones it. Bob makes his changes and commits them normally. git add . git commit Bob...
Big data is cool. What is not cool is trying to manipulate it outside of a database. What if, like me, you don’t like databases? What if the data is in text files or CSVs and you want to work in those? I have recently started a new project collecting human first names. I began with about 250,000 rows of data and...
I’ve experienced one-too-many sendmail failures over the years, usually for no apparent reason. Maybe this happens after a server reboot, who knows? Rather than spending hours/days trying to figure this out (as I have done before, many times) I’ve finally had enough and given up. It all began with my e-mail reminder...
I took a fancy to the idea of hosting my own Git repositories. I did not want to simply mirror them elsewhere on someone else’s platform, but wanted them entirely under my control. I also wanted the repositories viewable in a way that feels familiar, like on GitHub or Codeberg. The problem is that most of the...
GitGen is the absolute final answer to my question: can I self-host my Git repositories on a shared host and make them “browsable”? Yes, yes I can. I approached this solution back-to-front. Why does it need to be dynamic, like Cgit, gitweb, Gitea or even my very own CGI-git? It does not. How about taking an offline...
I do not believe that any browser today is capable of allowing users to work on multiple profiles in one window or across multiple tabs. Instead, we have ‘containers’ in Firefox but this is not complete profile isolation. We also have ‘private’ or ‘incognito’ functionality which comes close, but it is still not in...
I’ve been exploring alternatives to VirtualBox recently. I wanted to compare virtualisation applications to discover if there was anything better than VirtualBox for my needs. I have been using VirtualBox for about 10 years now and it is almost perfect - it does the job, offers the stability I need and just works....
I often marvel at the randomness of it all. If I had left one minute earlier, would I have missed all this traffic? Seeing the face of a random stranger and never seeing them ever again. Witnessing the sly look she gave him. ☉ ‿ ⚆ And the one he gave someone else. •͡˘㇁•͡˘ That cool-looking cloud in the sky which is...
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