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Triggering Orgzly sync on Android when Org file changes

Event based orgzly sync using tasker to prevent conflicts

My Default Apps at the End of 2024

I saw a few blog posts with people sharing their default apps for the year, and I wanted to share mine as well. Here's the list: 📨 Mail Service: Fastmail 📮 Mail Client: Fastmail web, mu4e (Emacs), FairEmail (Android) 📝 Notes: Markdown and Org files in denote (Emacs), Markor (Android) ✅ To-Do: GTD using Orgmode (Emacs), Orgzly Revived (Android) 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Google …

Capturing slack messages directly into Emacs orgmode inbox

Learn how to seamlessly capture Slack messages into your Emacs Orgmode (GTD) inbox using a custom browser userscript.

Emacs 30.1 highlight - intuitive tab line

Tabs in Emacs 30.1 behave similarly to other common desktop applications

Using Todoist as a cloud inbox for GTD in Emacs orgmode

Using todoist as a cloud inbox for GTD in Emacs orgmode for better integration with services like Slack and Google Assistant

Testing ansible playbooks against multiple targets using vagrant

How to test your ansible playbooks against multiple target OSes and versions using Vagrant

Exploring conflicting oneshot services in systemd

Exploring ways to make two systemd services using a shared resource work with each other

Graphical password prompt for disk decryption on ArchLinux

Enabling a graphical password prompt for disk decryption on ArchLinux

Encrypting an existing Linux system's root partition

Encrypt an unencrypted root partition on an Arch Linux system

Download a file securely from GCS on an untrusted system

Download files from google cloud storage using temporary credentials or time-limited access URLs

Slackbot using google cloud serverless functions

Slack bot using Google Cloud Functions to post a roundup of recently created channels

Automating custom routes and DNS setup on Windows

How I automated setting up custom routes and DNS for FortiClient SSL VPN on Windows 10

Erlang: Dialyzer HTML Reports using rebar3

How I made a custom rebar3 plugin to generate HTML reports for dialyzer warnings

Running multiple emacs daemons

Run multiple emacs daemons for different purposes and set different themes/config based on daemon name

Erlang: find cross-app calls using xref

Using xref magic to query compiled beam files and find cross-application function calls in Erlang

Advanced PostgreSQL monitoring using Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana

My experience with advanced monitoring for PostgreSQL database using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana, using a custom postgresql plugin for Telegraf.

Running docker jobs inside Jenkins running on docker

Run Jenkins inside docker, but also use docker containers to run jobs on that Jenkins

Telegraf: dynamically adding custom tags

Adding a custom tag to data coming in from an input plugin for telegraf

Install docker and docker-compose using Ansible

Optimized way to install docker and docker-compose using Ansible

Riemann and Zabbix: Sending data from riemann to zabbix

Tutorial for sending data from riemann to zabbix

My backup strategy to USB disk using duply

Local system backup using duply

Clean boot in erlang relx release

Booting Erlang release in clean or safe mode

PostgreSQL replication using Bucardo

Keeping a live replica of selected PostgreSQL tables using Bucardo

Slack bot for Phabricator Notifications

Setting up a slack bot for phabricator

Django, uWSGI, Nginx on Freebsd

Setting up Django on Freebsd using uWSGI and Nginx

Read only root on Linux

Setting up a read-only root filesystem on Linux

Notes on atom feeds

My notes on Atom feeds

Trying Emacs

Bare bones emacs configuration from when I first started using Emacs

Speeding up compilation times for Libreoffice / C++ projects

Faster compile times for libreoffice (and other C/C++ projects)

Basic Implementation of A* in Erlang

Implementing the path finding algorithm A* in Erlang

Erlang Profiling Tips

Some erlang profiling tips / tools I've come across