rg –no-filename -o ‘\[[^]]+\]\([^)]+\)’ 2025_journal_* >> links.md This will extract all the links in my daily log and add them to a new file. Useful when compiling lists of things (like records I like). It requires the ripgrep package to be installed.
This is now non-trivial. https://en.ubunlog.com/How-to-install-the-OEM-version-on-recent-versions-of-Ubuntu
I made a Ventoy USB last night (Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian). It’s a really simple process that I’ll definitely be exploring further (and maybe blogging about). Redid again today with a bigger USB and 10 distros plus a Windows 10 installer. Imagine carrying 50 distros on one USB. The future is here!
This looks like something I might want to do at some point. https://ubuntu.com//blog/transcribing-user-interviews-with-amazon-transcribe Also it has the commands for creating MP3s from video files, which I always forget: ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 outfile.mp3
Add exec xcompmgr -c -f -nto your i3 config file. Also install xcompmgr if you don’t already have it.
Looks like Synergy has been forked and the new version (Barrier) is available for most platforms. I’ve tried this out for about half an hour and it seems to work really well. https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/releases This might be the solution to some of the cable switching I have to do when I’m working from home.
This is what I add to my i3 config file to sort out screen locking: bindsym mod4+l exec “i3lock -t -i /path_to_file.png” exec –no-startup-id xautolock -locker “i3lock -i -t /path_to_file.png”
Native multi-cursor support for Atom doesn’t work out of the box on Linux. This is what I add to enable it. https://atom.io/packages/multi-cursor
I like this a lot and it’s currently occupying a terminal window in all of my Linux machines. https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop
One thing I like about snaps is that they update themselves now and again without me having to worry about them. There are some I do want to be bang up to date though (multipass is one), so I’ve added this command to the update script on all my Ubuntu machines: sudo snap refresh