Entries tagged publishing

Follow websites, blogs, podcasts and people you like with a RSS reader

Build a webpage with multiple RSS entries (on the same page)

Markdown: add tags/hyperlinks, for example for a table of contents within a single page

Reduce spaces before and after a list of items

Post a message to your twtxt file with no client

Short roadmap & resources to learn to use LaTeX

A decluttered, minimal and customised desktop with netinstall Trisquel GNU/Linux

Remove metadata from a file e.g. a photo with mat2

Hightlight text using Markdown, CSS and HTML

Create a “self-deploying” website (no server to manage) with Codeberg Pages

Convert text to an ASCII art slanted text banner

Convert an HTML webpage into a “clean” Markdown file

sdcv: an offline dictionary you can query from the command line

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

Increase line spacing when compiling a pdf with Pandoc

Turn a pad into a website with Cryptpad and Codeberg Page (no code)

Change margins when producing pdf files with Pandoc

Guidelines for password management for small and medium organisations

Count number of page(s) of one or multiple pdf files with pdfinfo, grep and awk

Cooperatives & non-profits offering email addresses and mailboxes

Remove pages from a pdf file from the command line with pdfseparate and pdfunite

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 with pdfxup

Use old programmes

Resize an image on the command line with the utilty convert

Remove page numbers when producing a .pdf file using Pandoc

Digital accessibility & inclusivity

Free does not mean gratis: lexical clarifications towards digital literacy

Copy a file from your local machine to a remote server with rsync

Cooperatives offering digital technology services

You don’t need new apps (or to search the web) to get things done

Convert files to .ogg from .flac from the command line with ffmpeg

On telling others “proprietary software is bad for you”, and the argument of reciprocity.

Set up your own webserver (& webpage) with nginx, LetsEncrypt and Certbot

Set up a VPS with Trisquel GNU/Linux NetInstall

GPGtar: Encrypt and decrypt a directory with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase with gpgtar

Merge pdf files freely without installing another programme with pdfunite

Convert a pdf to a text file from the command line with pdftotext

Search multiple files for an expression (e.g. a keyword) with grep

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 paragraph count on pdf document compiled with Pandoc

You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files: use the programme grep

Aspell: Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal

Compare files, “accept/reject” (like in Word) and merge changes, with diff and patch

Show word count of a text file from the command line with wc or pandoc & lua

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

Show word count in vim

Start using the command-line interface (cli)

Justify or right-align text in Markdown using HTML

Make Pandoc file conversion faster

Convert an HTML webpage into an EPUB file with Pandoc

A roadmap to reclaiming my attention and time