today's howtos
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IT Tavern ☛ Getting started with rsync - Comprehensive Guide
rsync is a CLI tool that covers various use cases. Transfering data, creating backups or archives, mirroring data sets, integrity checks, and many more.
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Stephanie Stimac ☛ When to use CSS text-wrap: balance; vs text-wrap: pretty;
At the start of the year I had written about how I wanted to spend this year writing about new CSS features landing in browsers. Life happened and it was in my best interest to do things off the web and away from my computer. But I'm picking this back up again because I'm genuinely back in a space to be exploring and creating things again. I wanted to start this little post off like this for anyone else who is struggling with burnout. It's okay to take a break. It's beneficial for your brain and the rest of you. Side projects will always be there to work on.
Now onto good ol' text-wrap.
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University of Toronto ☛ Indexed archive formats and selective restores
To simplify, tar archives are a series of entries for files and directories. Tar archives contain no inherent index of their contents (unlike some archive formats, such as ZIP archives), but you can build an external index of where each file entry starts and what it is. Given such an index and its archive file on a storage medium that supports random access, you can jump to only the directory and file entries you care about and extract only them. Because tar archives have not much special overall formatting, you can do this either directly or you can read the data for each entry, concatenate it, and feed it to 'tar' to let tar do the extraction.
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Dante Catalfamo ☛ Adding a Second Encrypted Drive to Fedora
When setting up the second drive, we're going to try to closely copy what Fedora does by default when it creates an encrypted drive. It also gives us a lot of flexibility as you'll see soon.
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Andre Franca ☛ Styling my RSS Feed
Styling the RSS feed is possible with the help of XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), which transforms our .xml file into other document types, such as HTML.
First, I added an xml-stylesheet processing instruction inside my feed.xml file. Right below the line containing the xml version.
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Chen HuiJing ☛ My ideal frontend interview
I’ll be the first to admit that I think I’m terrible at tech interviews. I never had a proper computer science education, and if I have never encountered a concept during my day-to-day job, odds are I won’t know how to implement “The Algorithmic-Data-Structure-Universe-Saving Thing™” in an hour with someone monitoring my keystrokes. The only tech interview that I actually enjoyed was the one that got me hired at Shopify. They may have changed the process since 4 years ago, but back then, I got an image of a tic-tac-toe game and was told to code it up in whichever set up I was comfortable with. I did it in CodePen while talking through my process with the interviewer and had a great time.
Granted, the interviewer plays a significant role in the thing, but the structure and intention of the interview is what makes or breaks an interview process for me. Anyway, I’m quarantined in my room with COVID, so I have thoughts and I’m writing them down. 乁 ( •_• ) ㄏ
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Dan Langille ☛ Clearing-out multiple drives concurrently – while Watching Fargo Season 5
Before I let it go, I want to clear off the drives. By that I mean: [...]
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Ubuntubuzz ☛ How To Make PDF on Ubuntu
This tutorial will help you create PDF documents on Ubuntu computer with default applications. You can do so using LibreOffice (full set consisted of Writer, Calc and Impress) and Firefox. You can do this quickly without adding any new application. Now let's try it out!