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A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine
This project, the M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine, was on my to-do list for a long time. I finally managed to complete the project after working on it for several months in my free time. The machine uses an Arduino microcontroller, stepper motors, an RGB colour sensor and 3D-printed parts to sort several types of…
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CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
It wasn’t too long ago that I was on a development team working toward completing a software project by a release deadline and facing the challenges most software teams face today in developing applications. Challenges such as new project environment setup, team member collaboration, and the day-to-day task of keeping…
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Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more
The full code for the completed scraper can be found in the companion repository on github. Introduction I wouldn’t really consider web scraping one of my hobbies or anything but I guess I sort of do a lot of it.
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Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
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A Beginner´s Guide to Getting Things Done
Getting things done is a task management system that helps you clarify what needs to be done, and when. Learn the GTD basics here.
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Encrypted email is still a pain
Today I sent an email to somebody who specified that he "prefers GPG mail". I didn't have any GPG set up, so I just sent a normal email, which worked perfectly well. But it made me look in to GPG, and this is what I learnt...
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Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments
I considered removing comments from the blog after looking into Disqus load-time behaviour and seeing what it was imposing on visitors.
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Inkscape Moves to GitLab
The Inkscape project has completed its planned move from launchpad using the bazaar repository system, to GitLab using the git repository system.
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Git git git git git
Ever found you’ve accidentally entered too many gits in your terminal and wondered if there’s a solution to it? I quite often type git then go away and come back, then type a full git status after it. This leads to a lovely (annoying) error out the box: $ git git status git: 'git' is not a git command. See 'git…
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A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab
Yuki “Piro” Hiroshi is a trailblazer and a true do-it-yourselfer. Whenever the Tokyo-based programmer gets irritated with any aspect of his browsing experience, he builds a workaround for himself and ...
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The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
Google Analytics is a powerful yet quite complicated tool. And unfortunately, the truth is most people who use it don’t reap its full benefits. There’s a lot of excellent and free content out there that explains how to use Google Analytics, but most of it is rather narrowly focused on use cases that primarily apply to…
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Why I switched from OS X to Linux
I'm not writing macOS because I switched before the new name came along. But let me start at the beginning.
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How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security
How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey & Duo Mobile make for great usable security. A travel Chromebook for modern development, online and offline.
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Tmux and Vim – better together
There are numerous benefits of using tmux. The benefits I discussed there are independent of one’s choice of text editor. But if you’re a vim user, the benefits of tmux reach even further. One of the best aspects of tmux is that it unlocks the potential for a more powerful vim-based development environment, allowing…
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What is Nix and why you should try it
Normally our Unix systems organise the file system in a structure called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). Installing into an FHS has limitations, what would happen if we want to install, for example, two different versions of ruby at the same time? Typically this isn't possible without explicitly specifying a…
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Using tmux properly
In the beginning, it was just me and the (plain) terminal. Then I started using Byobu, because it was company-standard at my first job. Later I installed tmux on my personal computer because it seemed more popular. And every time I work on a remote server, I use Screen. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
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Introducing Atom-IDE
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Gmail Add-ons
Few things are as satisfying as completing a task. But at work, it’s not always so easy. The days are short and packed with to-dos, like following up on sales leads, logging support tickets or sending invoices. And while great apps exists to tackle these workstreams, most users have to flip between them and their…
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Standalone Signal Desktop
Signal Desktop is now available in a new, standalone form, and the Chrome App has been deprecated.
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How to find a remote job
Join DeeKit's global community of digital nomads. Find friends, work opportunities, and adventure anywhere in the world.
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OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics
We take a look at the analytics built into the OxygenOS, the flavour of Android built by phone manufacturer OnePlus.
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Introducing Keybase Teams
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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How to set up continuous deployment using free hosted tools
I’m going to describe a way to put together a world-class continuous deployment infrastructure for your side-project without spending any money. With continuous deployment every code commit is tested against …
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