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Upgrading Discourse When You Totally Have Enough Disk Space
Read more →In some situations, Discourse thinks you don’t have enough disk space to upgrade to the latest version, even though you actually do. There is one little switch you can use to convince the upgrade script that it’s OK to proceed.
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unWise Arithmetic
Read more →Wise’s UI reports a rounded currency exchange rate, but applies a more-precise rate when converting funds, so their arithmetic is correct, even when it looks like it isn’t.
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strptime: a Beginner's Mistake
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Remove a Password from a PDF Document on Linux the Super-Easy Way
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The Mysterious Extra Quotes that `jc` Put In My JSON
Read more →How I learned to deal with Byte Order Marks (BOM) in text files.
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Ducking in Screenflow
Read more →To use ducking in Screenflow, set ducking on the voiceover track only and leave the music bed track underneath alone.
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LibreOffice Calc, Headers, Footers, and Every Page!
Read more →All of a sudden, I started seeing different headers and footers on different sheets of my workbook when I printed it as a PDF. I couldn’t believe my eyes, but then I noticed a new setting I hadn’t had to deal with before….
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How Pandoc and Ranger Froze My Laptop
Read more →My laptop started freezing and its fan started screaming at the top of its lungs. I was forced to reboot. Fortunately, I stumbled upon the reason: ranger and pandoc and trying to preview OpenOffice Spreadsheet files.
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Installing hledger
Read more →When entering any new open source software community, I expect to encounter some bumpy parts getting started. I had problems installing
hledgerthat reflect both some unknown unknowns of mine and some missing details in the documentation. Nevertheless, I managed to install it. -
Pop! OS Won't Mount Any External USB Disk
Read more →I recently upgraded the kernel and needed to reboot.