today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 27, 2023

• What To Do After Installing elementary OS 7

• 15 Essential Linux Commands Every Beginner Should Know

• I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure!

  The talk took place on May 25th 2023 at k-space, a hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia.

• Brief Note on Popovers with Dialogs

  The fake page is meant to mimic the stress of filling out a complex multi-step form while working against the clock. As the user hits a toggle-tip to get more information on a field, a dialog appears telling the user they will be logged out unless they hit the button.

• In practice, Grafana has not been great at backward compatibility

  We started our Prometheus and Grafana based metrics setup in late 2018. Although many of our Grafana dashboards weren't created immediately, the majority of them were probably built by the middle of 2019. Based on release history, we probably started somewhere around v6.4.0 and had many dashboards done by the time v7.0.0 came out. We're currently frozen on v8.3.11, having tried v8.4.0 and rejected it and all subsequent versions. The reason for this is fairly straightforward; from v8.4.0 onward, Grafana broke too many of our dashboards. The breakage didn't start in 8.4, to be honest. For us, things started to degrade from the change between the 7.x series and 8.0, but 8.4 was the breaking point where too much was off or not working.

• Link Preload as Image

  I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading.

• How to install the AWS CLI on Linux using PIP of Python

  The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a free tool provided by the Amazon web service, a cloud computing platform. It allows users to interact and manage the various AWS services directly from their system’s command terminal. Well, if you are a Ubuntu Linux user then can install AWS CLI directly using the APT package manager, however, for other distro users who want to get the latest AWSL CLI version but using the PIP, this article is for them. PIP is a popular package manager developed to install libraries and other dependencies for a Python project.

• Resizing images on the Linux command line | Network World

  The convert command from the ImageMagick suite of tools provides ways to make all sorts of changes to image files. Among these is an option to change the resolution of images. The syntax is simple, and the command runs extremely quickly. It can also convert a image from one format to another (e.g., jpg to png) as well as blur, crop, despeckle, dither, flip and join images and more.

  Although the commands and scripts in this post mostly focus on jpg files, the convert command also works with a large variety of other image files, including png, bmp, svg, tiff, gif and such.

• 10+ Ways to Use the find Command in Linux | Beebom

  Have you ever found yourself frantically searching for an important file, only to realize that you wasted many hours trying to look in every directory but the file is nowhere to be found? Well, this is a common problem that most Linux users face, especially new users with a huge number of disorganized files and directories. In this article, we explain how you can search for files and directories in different ways using the find command in Linux.