today's howtos
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Day 80: container style queries
Container style queries allow querying the computed values of a query container.
No browser supports it yet, but we should be able to do something like this: [...]
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Backup Guide - how to secure crucial data
This guide tries to share thoughts about various backup strategies, risks, storage mediums, and other things to consider. I won't go into technical details or suggest any tools since every backup strategy must be created individually, and there is a wide range of requirements. I rather want to give you some kind of checklist with things to think about. There is not a perfect strategy solution or template that fits all needs.
I've tried to keep this guide accessible for personal and corporate backups.
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A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
But despite the fact that I use SSH Tunnels daily, it always takes me a while to figure out the right command. Should it be a Local or a Remote tunnel? What are the flags? Is it a local_port:remote_port or the other way around? So, I decided to finally wrap my head around it, and it resulted in a series of labs and a visual cheat sheet.
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Cloudy Weekend: Migrating My Blog Engine
Saturday morning I logged into my cloud provider and started updating my blogging engine. This crashed my server and caused a lift-and-shift and upgrade. I finished up Monday morning.
This is my story.
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Rebuild a Pop!_OS package from sources
I don’t like the 50/50 tiling ratio of xfwm. I have cooked a patch to modify that ratio to my likings and already applied it to my OpenBSD local port tree. But the spare laptop runs Pop!_OS. And Debian / Ubuntu based Linux distribution comes with prebuild packages ; and that’s usually great!
Getting and patching the software source to build a custom deb package is quite easy when you have the recipe. And here it is.
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How to use the Nala package manager on Ubuntu
Nala is a new package manager for Ubuntu. It uses Ubuntu’s Apt as the backend but gives users faster downloads, a mirror picker, and much more. In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up and use Nala on your Linux PC.