Development Audit & Fix your NPM packages when using Yarn Yarn is a nice alternative to NPM, with pretty much feature parity and, depending on the version, some speed benefits too, though these days perhaps slightly less so as compared
Hackintosh Install macOS 11 Big Sur Beta 3 in a VM (QEMU) A new macOS release is nearing release, and it's a big one. So big that this time it's really, completely and definitely not OS X any longer. With the death
Linux Install a Linux kernel of choice under Ubuntu. Checking this one off of the "did not expect I'd ever have to figure this one out" list. Here's a quick guide on how to install a Linux kernel version
Gaming Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Unboxing (PS2) It's a bit of a quiet season for my blog. I've been mostly busy with work and personal life things, and as I mostly keep this blog to technical subjects
Quick Quick: Give full filesystem access to Flatpak-installed applications When installing applications using Flatpak you'll sooner or later run into a situation where the default filesystem access permissions the application has been given can get in the way. Sometimes
Gaming Grand Theft Auto 3 I have recently gotten my hands on a PS2 again (a few actually, but a story for another day), and have been rediscovering it. It’s been so much fun.
Development Setting up MonoDevelop on Ubuntu for SMAPI Development As with all things Linux, you occasionally run into a quirk or issue that is either caused by the project not primarily being developed or maintained for Linux, or more
Linux Enable Korean input on Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 Here's of those things that are on the surface straight-forward but in practice require a few steps that might not be easy to remember for future (re-)installs. Here are
Quick My Recommended Firefox Settings A bit of a minor post today. I have been meaning to write down my preferred settings for Firefox as its defaults leave a lot to be desired. This is
Learn With Me Ubuntu: Day 1* Continuing my foray into trying to switch to using Linux full-time, it is time to give Ubuntu a new and proper try. Continued from the Manjaro series, the last post
Learn With Me Manjaro: Day 3 Spoiler: This is the final part of my Manjaro series. Continued from the second post, found here.So far I have not been describing the many issues I've been having
Learn With Me Manjaro: Day 2 Well this took a while. Work happened, then Manjaro itself got in the way too, so this project had to go on the back burner for a bit. I had
Learn With Me Manjaro: Day 1 I've been meaning to try Linux as my primary desktop OS again, to see if it has come to the point I am able to actually do this. Previous attempts
Quick Quick: How to dump & restore a MariaDB/MySQL database from a docker container In the same vein as my previous post on dumping and restoring your PostgreSQL database, here are mostly copy/paste-able commands for when you're using a MariaDB or MySQL database.
Docker Multi-step Docker Build Container Template for Node.js Applications This is a simple multi-step Node.js application docker build template that you can use to create self-contained, relatively small-sized and easily deployable images of your application. You can read
Quick Quick: Taming Photos.app when using iCloud Photos Anyone who uses iCloud photos and has syncing turned on on your Mac or Hackintosh will likely one day run into challenges with it. Whether it's the uncontrollable hard drive
Music Denon DL-110 Phono Cartridge I have been using an Ortofon 2M Red cartridge that came stock with the Pro-Ject RPM 1.3 "Genie" record player for about three or four years now. While it
Quick Quick: How to dump & restore a PostgreSQL database from a docker container Sometimes you need to quickly dump and restore a PostgreSQL database, but what's the easiest way to do this when your database is in a Docker container? Check out this
Office Adding a third monitor The time has come for me to add a third (and probably fourth — local deal permitting) monitor to my setup, as my dual monitor setup was becoming a proper limiting
Home Winter emergency center for our succulents In our previous house we had a veranda area (think "inside but kind of outside") area that was perfect for plants, as it had direct sunlight on it all day
Gaming Taking a first look at the Wii Classic Controller I wanted to try out the Wii Classic Controller for a while now, and earlier this week I was finally able to do so. The Classic Controller is a controller
Gaming Now is a great time to play on Wii. These days I have come to appreciate older generation consoles and games more. I have always considered the Super Nintendo my favorite console, but there is so much more to
Hackintosh Why I haven't upgraded my Hackintosh to Catalina yet macOS Catalina has been released a few weeks ago, as many of you know. I wanted to write a short note on this release for those wanting to see how
Homelab Homelab re-organization project conclusions Several months ago I began a rather extensive homelab re-organization project, which I started documenting here on my blog as-well. Since it has been a while since I last posted
Gaming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time I grew up with the Super Nintendo as my favorite game console. My family also had an NES, although I don't think I was as interested in gaming when that
