today's howtos
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Amit Patel ☛ Font Distortion
I had previously blogged about text effects, and how I accidentally discovered that I could alter the personality of the font by rendering a distorted shape. At the time, I was focused on text effects and didn’t want to get distracted by this discovery. So I wrote it down for later.
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Setup KVM Hypervisor on LMDE 6
In particular case the original set of packages differs from Debian 12.5 and Sparky GNU/Linux 2024.05 ones
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What is Package Manager in GNU/Linux (Their Types with Examples)
A package manager is a command-line or graphical tool that allows you to easily search, install, update, and remove software packages on a GNU/Linux system.
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How to Install PyCharm on Ubuntu and Other GNU/Linux Distros
PyCharm is a well-known integrated development environment (IDE) for Python programming language that also offers support for Rust, Dart, HTML, JSON, Markdown, and several others. It’s available in two versions: Community and Professional.
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signing digital documents
I came across a worrying article about discrepancies between viewed and printed PDFs (thanks, Julia Evans). That got me concerned about signing digital documents in non-trivial formats such as PDF.
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Adriaan de Groot ☛ Git quality of life (2)
Here’s another minor
gitconvenience which I’m blogging as a letter to my future self who needs to look it up again:git logwith the filenames included, andgit logwith a bit of graphical annotation for the history structure.These are just my brief notes. If you want a beautifully readable introduction to git, I suggest Julia Evans “How Git Works”.
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