Here are more resources I’ve found, but haven’t sat down yet to put together. https://docs.asciidoctor.org/pdf-converter/latest/theme/apply-theme/ https://jekyll-one-org.github.io/pages/public/skeleton/documentation/200_themes/ https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/tree/main/data/themes https://jekyll.one/pages/public/manuals/components/j1/plugins/asciidoctor/ (not really about theming, but looks interesting)

I love the cleanness of the default asciidoc html rendering and do not love the default pdf rendering.I expected that they would be exactly the same.For some reason they are not. Strangely there is very little I could find in the realm of a library of different asciidoc-pdf themes to choose from. Google turned up […]

I thought I was going through the very simple exercise of creating a bootable USB Mac OSX Catalina installer on a mac running High Sierra and then I got this message: Using the native Mac Disk Utility program I had named the USB stick jp and formatted it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I read […]

I attached a 1TB USB hard drive to my Raspberry Pi so that I could use it to store large files via Samba I wouldn’t be sad to lose. Then I started storing more personal files that I also wouldn’t be sad to lose and yet wouldn’t want to widely share. And that got me […]

I was looking for a way to backup the SD card of my running Raspberry Pi without having to shut it down to make a copy of it. I found some surprisingly great options. So far I have had good luck with PiShrink-to-Crontab. I tested it out by creating an image and then writing it […]

The best way I found was to convert asciidoc to Docbook and then convert to odt. Surprisingly (considering all that it can do!) Pandoc cannot take asciidoc as an input. $ asciidoctor -b docbook my.adoc$ pandoc –from docbook –to odt –output my.odt my.xml I’m not totally satisfied with how it turned out. I had to […]

After listening to this fantastic podcast episode on Mac Power Users about data backups I learned one thing I’d never known before–that you can do TimeMachine backups to other Mac’s on your local network. This simple guide has the steps. I’ve had fuzzy plans for a while to create a TimeMachine backup server using my […]

These are the steps I went through to set up a Samba share on my Raspberry Pi. I wanted it to have a central place I could store and retrieve large files between computers on my home network. The Raspberry Pi comes with limited read/writeable storage and needs external storage for unless you are running […]

I don’t do this enough to remember the commands. This is a copy and paste from the instructions you get after creating a new repo at GitHub Create a new repository on the command line and add everything to it $ git init$ git add .$ git commit -m “first commit” Push to GitHub existing […]

This is a guest post from Ethan Poelstra. Tech waste (also known as E-waste) is the world’s fastest growing trash source. Though it currently accounts for only 2% of all trash in landfills, it accounts for over 70% of all toxic waste. Lots of technology that is thrown away each year could easily be used […]

Install brew if you haven’t already $ brew install gh $ gh auth login Reference and more information https://flaviocopes.com/setup-github-credentials-macos/ And here are the instructions for Linux https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md

I’ve been playing around with light-weight Ubuntu distros to run on the old laptops we have for the community Minecraft night I support. Looking for as little overhead as possible and removing all the stuff we don’t need. It’s kind of a convoluted process on Ubuntu/Debian compared to Red Hat/Fedora. https://askubuntu.com/questions/406155/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-the-biggest-packages-currently-installed-in-order https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/588370/get-how-much-space-is-used-by-some-packages https://coderwall.com/p/cwfvpq/list-installed-packages-by-size How to […]

I’ve been playing around with some of the really lightweight distros that don’t have all the regular packages. https://www.howtogeek.com/731805/how-to-install-google-chrome-on-ubuntu-linux/

How to Install Minecraft on Ubuntu And troubleshooting if it doesn’t work https://forum.linuxconfig.org/t/unable-to-launch-minecraft-on-ubuntu-20-04/5556

I thought Red Hat and Fedora had too many ways to do things! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68635646/what-are-the-differences-between-apt-clean-remove-purge-etc-commands https://askubuntu.com/questions/1235929/how-to-remove-libreoffice-installed-with-lubuntu-20-04

These are the steps I went through to create an account and submit a demo recording to Librivox so that I can be a recorded contributor. At first all the different links and places are overwhelming so I wanted to create a clean and simple list of steps to make it easier for people. These […]

Get the latest image and save it locally. As of this writing it is Bullseye. I chose the 64 bit image for my Raspberry Pi 3B+ https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/ 2. Write the downloaded image to an SD card. The simplest way to do this is the Raspberry Pi Imager (found at the link below). It’s a great […]

I was on a mission to do a clean install of Monterey https://setapp.com/how-to/clean-install-macos-monterey and ran into some challenges. For some reason getting the installer via the Apple app store didn’t work. This website has lots of awesome links for getting the full installer directly

Support for openjdk through Brew is getting sketchy on Mac OS X High Sierra (and understandably so). I have no reason to upgrade and so I found a way to easily run Java 17 to keep my Spigot Minecraft server running. Go to https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/ 2. Grab the tarball (not the dmg) 3. Create a directory […]