As I reported a while ago, I embarked on an exhilarating journey with the #100DaysToOffload challenge, a quest to enrich my blog with 100 posts within a year. However, I realized that while I have had 80+ posts since then, I still have yet to write that many posts within a year, which is the original postulation of the challenge - quite a misrepresentation.
On my desk, I have a 20TB external hard drive, which is encrypted using LUKS. This is the default on Ubuntu when you choose to encrypt your hard drive during installation or when you format a drive using the Disks utility and choose encryption.
According to Diogenes Laërtius, when Plato gave the tongue-in-cheek definition of man as “featherless bipeds”, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato’s Academy, saying, “Behold! I’ve brought you a man”, and so the academy added “with broad flat nails” to the definition.
A while back I started consolidating all my release scripts and ran into an issue, that on the second look is quite obvious to solve, but I still wanted to share it with you. You might run into situations, where you have scripts that are only relevant for certain builds or environments.
The download attribute for anchor (<a>) tags is a nifty feature that often flies under the radar but can significantly enhance the user experience on a website. This attribute, when added to an <a> tag, instructs the browser to download the resource linked by the anchor tag instead of navigating to it.
Today, I reworked my theme changer script from vanilla JavaScript to an Alpine.js-based component. This change cut down the code lines by 50%. However, initially, it didn’t work. The console error messages indicated that my theme switcher function was unrecognized. Intrigued, I decided to investigate.