Entries tagged personal computing
Add inline notes with automatic numbering using HTML, CSS and Markdown
Hightlight text using Markdown, CSS and HTML
Browser extensions I use
Check log entries after crash
List files of a zip archive file without unzipping it
Create a website without coding (“no code”) with Codeberg Pages
Push only the last commit to remote
Move all non-pushed commits to a new branch
Only merge the last commit of a specific branch to the main branch
Show birthdays for the next 30 days (abook)
Move message to another folder in Mutt
Log in into a text-based session (tty)
Find out how much memory (RAM) a laptop has
Remapping the key Caps Lock as Ctrl on GNU/Linux
Delete all emails at once in Mutt
Select which staged files to commit
Check which branch.es have been merged with the main branch
Sum up a column of numbers in a text file from the command line with Datamash
Test internet speed from command-line interface (cli)
Add the keyid of a signing GPG keypair to git config and sign commits
Display mailboxes in Mutt’s sidebar
Display Notmuch search results with Mutt
Look up U.S. Zip codes from the command line offline
Less: do not wrap lines - use horizontal scroll to browse full lines
(Solved) Mutt sends an empty email when I click on a mailto: link in Abrowser
Memo: Mutt’s Index flags
Convert text to an ASCII art slanted text banner
Adjust delay between audio and video in VLC
Reverse (flip) the order of rows of a text file
Convert an HTML webpage into a “clean” Markdown file
Curate your own web, search your own web
Generate a fake list of name, email address, phone number and more
An offline dictionary you can query from the command line
Display the conjugation of French and Italian verbs in the terminal
Change the color of git’s output e.g. git diff
Pass the output of french-conjugator (verbiste’s cli) to less
Large logs - “no space left on device”
Install and run Libretranslate on your computer
Add a dictionary to sdcv (Stardic’s cli)
Look up the definition of a word in a specific dictionary with sdcv
Create a YAML template with variables to pass when compiling a pdf with Pandoc
Run a command on the output of a first command
Increase line spacing when compiling a pdf with Pandoc
Pass sdcv’s output to less
Create a contingency table (a.k.a. cross tabulation) with Datamash
Set up msmtp to queue ‘sent emails’ when you are offline
Highlight current date with Cal (cli)
Find and connect to WiFi networks from the command line
Show decimal numbers with bc
Turn a pad into a website
Change margins when producing pdf files with Pandoc
Display JPEG attachment in Mutt
Remove all git files from a local repository
Guidelines for password management for small and medium organisations
Modify permission to make a Bash script file executable
Count number of page(s) of one or multiple pdf files
Cooperatives & non-profits offering email addresses and mailboxes
Delete all your emails at once from ProtonMail’s servers
Remove pages from a pdf file from the command line
Create and populate a file from the command line with cat
Display a .csv file as a table in the terminal with Visidata
Convert a .ods file to a .csv file from the command line
Send an email from the command line with msmtp
Remove a specific range of files at once from the command line
Convert a PDF to 2 pages per sheet from 1 page per sheet from the command line
Use old programmes
Show changes (diff) that are staged
Add a second email account to your Mutt, msmtp, mbsync configuration
Resize an image on the command line
Unzip (decompress) and extract files from a .tar.gz file
Remove page numbers when producing a .pdf file using Pandoc
View PDF attachments as text in Mutt
Digital accessibility & inclusivity
Downloads all your emails from ProtonMail with mbsync
Free does not mean gratis: lexical clarifications towards digital literacy
Commit only partial changes of a file
Checkout partial changes of a file interactively
Check for existing SSH keys
List available fonts on a system from the command line
Copy a file from your local machine to a remote server
Indent multiple lines in Vim
Show file permissions on the command line
Append text at the end of a line with Sed
Port (computer networking) cheatsheet
Grep multiple patterns (words) occuring at the beginning of a line
Grep multiple patterns
Cooperatives offering digital technology services
Renew LetsEncrypt certificates and set up auto-renew with cron
Multiply field’s (column’s) entries and sum them up with awk
Sum values per group (of a text/data file) from the command line with Datamash
Memo to change permissions in absolute modes with chmod
You don’t need new apps (or to search the web) to get things done
Convert a file to .ogg from .flac from the command line with ffmpeg
On telling others “proprietary software is bad for you”, and the argument of reciprocity.
Show SSH’s key fingerprint
Part 2: Connect to shared server (VPS) using SSH
Show the release (“version”) of the kernel on GNU/Linux
Automatically indent HTML tags in Vim
Add a new website to a server running nginx, LetsEncrypt HTTPS and Certbot
Backup /etc/letsencrypt directory with rsync from remote server to local machine
Prepend multiple files with a pattern with the command line
Switch default browser from the command line
View content of a tar.gz archive without extracting
Compress multiple directories (folders) with gzip
My .muttrc file
Start using Mutt: a setup with GPG, mbsync, msmtp and notmuch
Change the email address git uses
Set up your own webserver (& webpage) with nginx, LetsEncrypt and Certbot
Remove “Save in password manager” option in GPG pinentry
Uncomment a line with sed (i.e. delete #)
Change the time zone used by date on GNU/Linux
Set up a VPS with Trisquel GNU/Linux NetInstall
[Solved] Permission denied (publickey,password) with correct password
Change root password on GNU/Linux
Undelete a message in Mutt
Show size of a file or a directory from the command line
Show the keyID of subkeys
Show or export GPG public key
Error “E212: Can’t open file for writing” in Vim
Show the key ID of key used to encrypt
Create and store email aliases for Mutt
Append multiple lines at the end of a file with cat
Set up your own instance of Jitsi
Send an email from the command line with Mutt
Justify text in Vim
Set Mutt to store deleted messages in the trash folder
Compute your bike itinerary locally with bbbike
Check whether a package is installed on GNU/Linux
Check whether a package is availabile in the repository of a GNU/Linux’s distribution
Undo the last local commit
Remove a file from the last commit
Pass the output of the last command as an argument to the next
Mutt: store passwords encrypted with GPG
Exclude files and directories when listing with ls
Find out the license of a programme locally
List directories (folders) only with ls
Show lines below and/or above a match with grep
My current Vim mnemonic sheet
Shortcuts to edit on the command line
Create a permanent alias for a command
Edit and reexecute a command from the shell history
Open all grepped files in vim
Count the number of files grepped with wc
Find files created or modified in the last days
Move (copy) files or folders printed by find
Count the number of files in a folder with wc
Display the amount of disk space available
Encrypt and decrypt a directory with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase with gpgtar
Edit the message of the last commit
Copy a command from the shell history to a file
Copy a command from the shell history to the clipboard
Merge pdf files freely without installing another programme with pdfunite
Convert a pdf to a text file from the command line
Check the version a GNU/Linux distribution from the command line
Create, edit and delete git alias
Commands and shortcuts I use the most in the Shell (the Terminal)
You don’t need a new app for your Zettelkasten
Show local time for a given time and date of a different time zone
Find out what takes up disk space on your computer
Squash (combine, merge) git commits together
Generate a table of contents on a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Increase the font size of a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Add today’s date automatically when converting a Markdown file to pdf with Pandoc
Show word count with Pandoc and a lua script
Show paragraph count on pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Rename multiple files from the command line
Copy, move or delete recently modified or downloaded files
Find files or directories from the command-line with find
You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files: use the programme grep
Replace all occurences of a word in one or many files from the command line with sed
Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal)
Compare files, “accept/reject” (like in Word) and merge changes, with diff and patch
.vimrc file of a writer (not a programmer)
Show word count of a text file from the command line with wc or pandoc & lua
A vim script to mark folds on Markdown headers by default
Change vim color scheme
A guide to simple and stupid usage of computers for writers (anyone who writes really)
Start using vim
Start using (the programme) “less” to display files
Start using Markdown
Start using Pandoc
Start using git to keep track of file versioning
Set Vim as the default text editor for Mutt
Show word count in vim
Start using the command-line interface (cli)
Justify or right-align text in Markdown using HTML
Remove file id extension from file name when downloading with youtube-dl
Download mp3 audio track only (no video) from YouTube with youtube-dl
Copy the content of a file to the clipboard from the command line
Change the expiration date (time) of a gpg subkey
Download mp3 files from a webpage with wget
Show the time of other time zones from the command line
Restore your data from backup with the programme Back in Time
Back up your computer (/home) on an external drive with the programme Back in Time
Switch from nano to vim as default editor in the shell
Make Pandoc file conversion faster
Git asks for password each time I “git push”. Solution: caching credentials with git
Convert an HTML webpage into an EPUB file with Pandoc
Follow a YouTube channel with RSS (without a Google/YouTube account)
A roadmap to reclaiming my attention and time
Follow websites or blogs you like with a RSS reader
Add a forgotten file to the last commit
Edit the message of the last commit
Add newly made modifications to the last commit
Por qué he pedido a mis amigos que dejen de usar WhatsApp y Telegram
Neden arkadaşlarıma WhatsApp ve Telegram’ı kullanmayı bırakmaları gerektiğini söyledim
Por que eu falei para meus amigos pararem de usar WhatsApp e Telegram.
Why I told my friends to stop using WhatsApp and Telegram
Warum ich meinen Freunden gesagt habe, sie sollen WhatsApp und Telegram nicht mehr benutzen
Hightlight text using Markdown, CSS and HTML
Browser extensions I use
Check log entries after crash
List files of a zip archive file without unzipping it
Create a website without coding (“no code”) with Codeberg Pages
Push only the last commit to remote
Move all non-pushed commits to a new branch
Only merge the last commit of a specific branch to the main branch
Show birthdays for the next 30 days (abook)
Move message to another folder in Mutt
Log in into a text-based session (tty)
Find out how much memory (RAM) a laptop has
Remapping the key Caps Lock as Ctrl on GNU/Linux
Delete all emails at once in Mutt
Select which staged files to commit
Check which branch.es have been merged with the main branch
Sum up a column of numbers in a text file from the command line with Datamash
Test internet speed from command-line interface (cli)
Add the keyid of a signing GPG keypair to git config and sign commits
Display mailboxes in Mutt’s sidebar
Display Notmuch search results with Mutt
Look up U.S. Zip codes from the command line offline
Less: do not wrap lines - use horizontal scroll to browse full lines
(Solved) Mutt sends an empty email when I click on a mailto: link in Abrowser
Memo: Mutt’s Index flags
Convert text to an ASCII art slanted text banner
Adjust delay between audio and video in VLC
Reverse (flip) the order of rows of a text file
Convert an HTML webpage into a “clean” Markdown file
Curate your own web, search your own web
Generate a fake list of name, email address, phone number and more
An offline dictionary you can query from the command line
Display the conjugation of French and Italian verbs in the terminal
Change the color of git’s output e.g. git diff
Pass the output of french-conjugator (verbiste’s cli) to less
Large logs - “no space left on device”
Install and run Libretranslate on your computer
Add a dictionary to sdcv (Stardic’s cli)
Look up the definition of a word in a specific dictionary with sdcv
Create a YAML template with variables to pass when compiling a pdf with Pandoc
Run a command on the output of a first command
Increase line spacing when compiling a pdf with Pandoc
Pass sdcv’s output to less
Create a contingency table (a.k.a. cross tabulation) with Datamash
Set up msmtp to queue ‘sent emails’ when you are offline
Highlight current date with Cal (cli)
Find and connect to WiFi networks from the command line
Show decimal numbers with bc
Turn a pad into a website
Change margins when producing pdf files with Pandoc
Display JPEG attachment in Mutt
Remove all git files from a local repository
Guidelines for password management for small and medium organisations
Modify permission to make a Bash script file executable
Count number of page(s) of one or multiple pdf files
Cooperatives & non-profits offering email addresses and mailboxes
Delete all your emails at once from ProtonMail’s servers
Remove pages from a pdf file from the command line
Create and populate a file from the command line with cat
Display a .csv file as a table in the terminal with Visidata
Convert a .ods file to a .csv file from the command line
Send an email from the command line with msmtp
Remove a specific range of files at once from the command line
Convert a PDF to 2 pages per sheet from 1 page per sheet from the command line
Use old programmes
Show changes (diff) that are staged
Add a second email account to your Mutt, msmtp, mbsync configuration
Resize an image on the command line
Unzip (decompress) and extract files from a .tar.gz file
Remove page numbers when producing a .pdf file using Pandoc
View PDF attachments as text in Mutt
Digital accessibility & inclusivity
Downloads all your emails from ProtonMail with mbsync
Free does not mean gratis: lexical clarifications towards digital literacy
Commit only partial changes of a file
Checkout partial changes of a file interactively
Check for existing SSH keys
List available fonts on a system from the command line
Copy a file from your local machine to a remote server
Indent multiple lines in Vim
Show file permissions on the command line
Append text at the end of a line with Sed
Port (computer networking) cheatsheet
Grep multiple patterns (words) occuring at the beginning of a line
Grep multiple patterns
Cooperatives offering digital technology services
Renew LetsEncrypt certificates and set up auto-renew with cron
Multiply field’s (column’s) entries and sum them up with awk
Sum values per group (of a text/data file) from the command line with Datamash
Memo to change permissions in absolute modes with chmod
You don’t need new apps (or to search the web) to get things done
Convert a file to .ogg from .flac from the command line with ffmpeg
On telling others “proprietary software is bad for you”, and the argument of reciprocity.
Show SSH’s key fingerprint
Part 2: Connect to shared server (VPS) using SSH
Show the release (“version”) of the kernel on GNU/Linux
Automatically indent HTML tags in Vim
Add a new website to a server running nginx, LetsEncrypt HTTPS and Certbot
Backup /etc/letsencrypt directory with rsync from remote server to local machine
Prepend multiple files with a pattern with the command line
Switch default browser from the command line
View content of a tar.gz archive without extracting
Compress multiple directories (folders) with gzip
My .muttrc file
Start using Mutt: a setup with GPG, mbsync, msmtp and notmuch
Change the email address git uses
Set up your own webserver (& webpage) with nginx, LetsEncrypt and Certbot
Remove “Save in password manager” option in GPG pinentry
Uncomment a line with sed (i.e. delete #)
Change the time zone used by date on GNU/Linux
Set up a VPS with Trisquel GNU/Linux NetInstall
[Solved] Permission denied (publickey,password) with correct password
Change root password on GNU/Linux
Undelete a message in Mutt
Show size of a file or a directory from the command line
Show the keyID of subkeys
Show or export GPG public key
Error “E212: Can’t open file for writing” in Vim
Show the key ID of key used to encrypt
Create and store email aliases for Mutt
Append multiple lines at the end of a file with cat
Set up your own instance of Jitsi
Send an email from the command line with Mutt
Justify text in Vim
Set Mutt to store deleted messages in the trash folder
Compute your bike itinerary locally with bbbike
Check whether a package is installed on GNU/Linux
Check whether a package is availabile in the repository of a GNU/Linux’s distribution
Undo the last local commit
Remove a file from the last commit
Pass the output of the last command as an argument to the next
Mutt: store passwords encrypted with GPG
Exclude files and directories when listing with ls
Find out the license of a programme locally
List directories (folders) only with ls
Show lines below and/or above a match with grep
My current Vim mnemonic sheet
Shortcuts to edit on the command line
Create a permanent alias for a command
Edit and reexecute a command from the shell history
Open all grepped files in vim
Count the number of files grepped with wc
Find files created or modified in the last days
Move (copy) files or folders printed by find
Count the number of files in a folder with wc
Display the amount of disk space available
Encrypt and decrypt a directory with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase with gpgtar
Edit the message of the last commit
Copy a command from the shell history to a file
Copy a command from the shell history to the clipboard
Merge pdf files freely without installing another programme with pdfunite
Convert a pdf to a text file from the command line
Check the version a GNU/Linux distribution from the command line
Create, edit and delete git alias
Commands and shortcuts I use the most in the Shell (the Terminal)
You don’t need a new app for your Zettelkasten
Show local time for a given time and date of a different time zone
Find out what takes up disk space on your computer
Squash (combine, merge) git commits together
Generate a table of contents on a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Increase the font size of a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Add today’s date automatically when converting a Markdown file to pdf with Pandoc
Show word count with Pandoc and a lua script
Show paragraph count on pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Rename multiple files from the command line
Copy, move or delete recently modified or downloaded files
Find files or directories from the command-line with find
You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files: use the programme grep
Replace all occurences of a word in one or many files from the command line with sed
Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal)
Compare files, “accept/reject” (like in Word) and merge changes, with diff and patch
.vimrc file of a writer (not a programmer)
Show word count of a text file from the command line with wc or pandoc & lua
A vim script to mark folds on Markdown headers by default
Change vim color scheme
A guide to simple and stupid usage of computers for writers (anyone who writes really)
Start using vim
Start using (the programme) “less” to display files
Start using Markdown
Start using Pandoc
Start using git to keep track of file versioning
Set Vim as the default text editor for Mutt
Show word count in vim
Start using the command-line interface (cli)
Justify or right-align text in Markdown using HTML
Remove file id extension from file name when downloading with youtube-dl
Download mp3 audio track only (no video) from YouTube with youtube-dl
Copy the content of a file to the clipboard from the command line
Change the expiration date (time) of a gpg subkey
Download mp3 files from a webpage with wget
Show the time of other time zones from the command line
Restore your data from backup with the programme Back in Time
Back up your computer (/home) on an external drive with the programme Back in Time
Switch from nano to vim as default editor in the shell
Make Pandoc file conversion faster
Git asks for password each time I “git push”. Solution: caching credentials with git
Convert an HTML webpage into an EPUB file with Pandoc
Follow a YouTube channel with RSS (without a Google/YouTube account)
A roadmap to reclaiming my attention and time
Follow websites or blogs you like with a RSS reader
Add a forgotten file to the last commit
Edit the message of the last commit
Add newly made modifications to the last commit
Por qué he pedido a mis amigos que dejen de usar WhatsApp y Telegram
Neden arkadaşlarıma WhatsApp ve Telegram’ı kullanmayı bırakmaları gerektiğini söyledim
Por que eu falei para meus amigos pararem de usar WhatsApp e Telegram.
Why I told my friends to stop using WhatsApp and Telegram
Warum ich meinen Freunden gesagt habe, sie sollen WhatsApp und Telegram nicht mehr benutzen
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