Recently I set out to customize my Firefox a little bit. I found this awesome Start Page thanks to /r/startpages which you can download here. Upon setting it up, and customizing it I realized the old method of userChrome.js doesn’t seem to work anymore for opening a local HTML file in a new tab. Annoying. After a little research, I’ve figured it out and documented it for anyone else running into this....
With all the privacy issues these days I decided to check out alternatives to using standard services. With that I found Matrix which allows for a secure ‘slack like’ service that also has ‘bridges’ that let you connect to iMessage, Slack, Signal, Facebook even Twitter and Instagram. I have not fully configured this, this is mainly for my records purposes and I stole most of this from the excellent article I found called Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi....
I was tasked with creating a simple dashboard for a client of ours that auto runs on boot of the computer. This weekend I sat down to work on this and here’s what I found. First, make sure you go with Rasbian Server edition of the OS. I tried with various other flavours and it was a convoluted process to remove GDM or install LXDE and actually have this run with minimal effort....
Years ago I set this up with a bunch of convoluted scripts, and etc. No fun. Today I did a bit of research and found out how to easily setup your web server to pull updates from your git repo anytime you publish to it – the proper way. Here’s how to do it. First, connect to your remote web server ssh youruser@yourserver.com Note, we make some assumptions that you host your site in /var/www/html and that you’ve already added your ssh keys to your git server for both master, and production web server....
My Mac Mini acting as a PLEX server was from late 2009 and had began stuttering when playing some recent high quality rips or transcoding. It was time to upgrade. Luckily I had an old i7-4790K processor laying around. I bought a case from amazon, and sourced a cheap 1150 motherboard locally. I also already had a 250gb SSD I wasn’t using. All I needed was some ram and I was in business....