“File exists, but cannot be read” error on emacs 27
Try this fix from StackExchange: Set (setq create-lockfiles nil) in config
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24 influential books programmers should read
https://dev.to/squash/24-influential-books-programmers-should-read-2020-updated-2h33
Demo code for flask-ask-sdk
Amazon’s Hello World Alexa Skill example modified to use their Flask library: https://gist.github.com/jamespo/0522d39eff41a5acc0491e1cd5e1d957
Test SameSite cookie behaviour
https://samesite-sandbox.glitch.me/ All green means you have the new behaviour.
Enable Reader Mode in Chrome
chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
Windows key not working on your Magicforce 83 keyboard?
AKA this one from Amazon. fn+esc toggles “gaming mode”, which disables the windows key!
5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line tools
5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command-line toolsI already use ag as an alternative to grep and di as an alternative to df, but fd was new to me.
Compiling newsboat 2.18 on (Armbian) Ubuntu 18.04
It has some weird build dependencies like xsltproc, asciidoc & gettext to build docs & cargo (seems to be built in a mix of c++ & rust). Others include: libcurl4-openssl-dev, pkg-config, libkrb5-dev (needed for curl-config), libstfl-dev, libjson-c, libsqlite3-dev. Then the xmllint check run by a2x fails as it won’t download the DTD, so replace all …
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Finding out the full path of a running process on linux
Wondering *which* version of java is running as a daemon? ls -l /proc/PID/exe
aerc: a pretty good email client
I’m a long-term mutt/thunderbird user, but aerc is really fast: https://aerc-mail.org/