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Cake day: September 4th, 2024

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  • I have a storagebox at hetzner. My script does:

    • Mount the storagebox over sshfs with public key file
    • Mount a gocryptfs folder, with supplied key on local file
    • Rsync my stuff to the encrypted folder
    • Unmounts in reverse order

    I can access the storagebox by password, too. So this is my disaster recovery in case my house burns down with all my devices. I’ll just buy another laptop the next day, and me and the Mrs can admire all my code and our wedding videos within a few hours.




  • I’m a bit torn.

    I want there to be diversity and free choice regarding where I get my apps from, so one less choice only strengthens Google’s monopoly.

    As a user, Amazon’s app store was just sketchy.

    As a developer I don’t want to be submitting every update to yet another store for every release. I have had users mail me and ask to add my app to the Amazon app store, because their device didn’t come with Google’s play store.



  • I like to make bookmarklets for these kind of things.

    Just make a page with a link that runs a javascript snippet. Drag that link to your bookmark bar, and you have a new action button. Firefox syncs them from desktop to mobile, there’s probably a way to add them straight on your mobile browser, too.

    The snippet could post the current URL, post what you’ve currently selected. Tinyurl has an example for creating a tinyurl from where you are - probably a good starting point.

    I’ve got one that posts to my personal URL shortener. One that grabs metadata from a ticketing system and makes nice linky markdown in my clipboard for me to paste on slack.




  • Me, too. I’ve got some extra buoyancy on account of being fat.

    While servicing my sailing yacht I dropped a part of the furler in the water while docked. A new piece was stupidly expensive and would take two weeks to get, while I was cruising on a schedule.

    So I dropped the anchor and climbed down the chain to look for it. At the end my wife found it. We probably spent a good three hours diving and feeling around in the soft mud for it.