I had to pin down a plastic sheet over a piece of ground in my vegetable garden to keep it dry and stop weed from growing before seeding it with winter crops. It’s a common occurrence when you take care of vegetables, flowers etc. My dad studied gardening and practiced it his whole life. In a bucket inside my shed I’ve found a lot of pegs he left ready to be used. Read more

I read about mosh online and was curious to see what the deal was with it. It wasn’t really clear to me what the difference was with using ssh directly, ssh works pretty well. In their website they say that Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance links. I used it to connect to my phone and found out that it’s actually a really different experience from using a plain ssh connection. Read more

I find programs made for the command line more responsive and nicer to use. People are usually skeptical about entering text in a command prompt, but they should give it a try, it’s just asking the computer to do something. Unix The Unix way of doing stuff, as far as I understand it, is that every program should do one thing only and do it well. You just mix and match this various programs and get a new tool you can use to do what you need to usually. Read more

I’ve been trying to quit smoking and I wanted to have some feedback on how much time passed after the last cigarette i smoked. So i started developing a program to tell me how much time passed from a saved date and time in a human readable format. The first thing I did was to write a python program to save and calculate the difference from the saved timestamp. It’s pretty easy, just Read more

Check out the Darknet Diaries. It’s pretty cool.