today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 16, 2022

• How to Install Snap/Snap-Store on Fedora 37/36/35

  By default, Fedora does not come with Snap or Snap Store installed as this is a feature that was built by developed by Canonical as a faster and easier way to get the latest versions of software installed on Ubuntu systems, and Snap packages are installed from a central SNAP server operated by Canonical. Snap can be installed and, for the most part, work with most packages on Fedora-based systems that are currently actively supported.

• Day 37: cascade layers

  Let’s say we’re using a combination of a tag and an attribute selector for styling e-mail input fields. This declaration is part of our base stylesheet and comes early in the stylesheet. Later in the document, we want to use a class to overwrite parts of the base styling: [...]

• It's useful to think about a 'ground up' recovery of your environment

  One of the things that many system administrators don't like to think about is a total loss scenario for their entire environment. For people who run physical hardware, what you'd do if your machine room or data center had a fire; for people with virtual hardware, what you'd do if your entire cloud (short of your 'offsite backups') was wiped or deleted. Often we push this off as Disaster Recovery and then punt on it, because a real DR plan is both a lot of detailed work and also something that often doesn't survive contact with reality unless you really, really care about DR (care enough to budget for it and test your plans and so on). However, I'd like to advocate for the exercise of thinking through what it would take in your environment.

• How to search Mastodon by date & time

  I'm trying to build something similar for the Mastodon social network. Yes, I know it is new to you - but some of us have been there for several years.

  So here's how to search Mastodon for posts made on specific dates!