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Snap Applications Missing in Linux with ZSH

·2 mins

I’m a regular ZSH user, and overall it works just fine as a replacement of BASH. However, recently I kept having trouble with my personal workstation losing track of my SNAP-installeed applications (in particular the Atom Editor) while running KDE Neon. Thankfully, I’m not the only one that had this problem, and there is a straightforward (and in hindsight obvious) fix.

Distroless and Jib: Lightweight Java Container Images

·9 mins

The server world has moved to containers. And rightfully so: they isolate application concerns, they unify deployment, they are easy to host, and they make big complex systems like Kubernetes possible. Unfortunately, Java has been slow to adapt to the container world. Thankfully, tools are starting to become prevalent that make Java in containers easy and effective. Distroless and Jib are two of those tools.

Trivial Static Site Hosting with Hugo and GCS

·7 mins

I recently transitioned my site from my own hosting to Google Cloud Storage site hosting, and removed a variety of self-managed steps (and some cost) out of the process of running it. I’ll share my experience here and hopefully provide a roadmap to my particular combination of pieces and parts that is useful to others.

Paperless Adulting on Linux with Evernote and NoteSlurp

·12 mins

Adulting is hard. Bills come and go, taxes have to be prepared, escrows have shortages, kids have activites, FSAs need proof of medical expenses, cars need to be registered.

The list of things an adult has to do seems to only grow larger over time, and one of the fundamental things that all adults seem to have to do is to track and file paperwork. I’ve gone “paperless” in my personal life (which I seem to have interpreted it to mean: “keep digital copies of everything, even if it was paper originally”).

When it comes to adulting, barriers to doing the right thing (like actually getting stuff filed paperlessly) are bad, as you won’t do them. So, recently I decided to make that just a little bit easier on myself with a new tool. Let me walk through the research I’ve done, what my process for paperless filing is, and where I’ve historically had problems, and how this new tool has helped me out.