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Music producer, (ex-)DJ, electronics tinkerer, Linux enthusiast and coder.

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Showing posts with label debian. Show all posts

Indicator for Gnote




My favorite note-taking app Tomboy is no longer available in Ubuntu software repositories since 19.04. The similar Gnote lacks the handy indicator menu (also known as a tray icon) providing quick access to recently edited notes, so I rolled my own.

Pre-enabling wifi and SSH on a Raspberry Pi SD card


I've bought many Pi Zero W's, as they're just irresistibly cheap, so I have a lot of little Linuxes (or is the plural Linuces?) running around the house.

Unfortunately I keep forgetting how to pre-enable wifi and SSH on the SD card for a headless setup, and every time Google finds me old, incomplete tutorials, leaving me wondering why a Pi is not connecting, so it's best I finally write my own.

Context menu additions for sharing files in S3 buckets


Some time ago I wrote about mounting Amazon S3 buckets into your home directory, and I wanted to get automatic public URLs for sharing some of the files I stuff in my cloud buckets. I got it working quite effortlessly by writing a small script and adding a context menu item to my file manager.