basnotes

 

thoughts, tips and notes-to-self

August 30, 2020

now

Now - September 2020

When I stumbled across Koos Looijesteijn’s now page, I had never seen such a page. But apparently many more have been inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now page movement.

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September 23, 2020

tip

WordPress to Hugo

When I started the graduation of my study Software Engineering in 2015, I was required to have a blog to log and share my findings with my university. At that time WordPress was an easy-to-setup and easy-to-use solution. That is still true, but it does have its disadvantages too.

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September 15, 2020

tip

Hugo Search

Although my site does not yet contain much content, I thought it would be nice to have some kind of search functionality. I found some nice solutions and this is what I did:

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August 31, 2020

tip

Fix email address in Git commits

As probably many of you, I have a personal and work email address. When working on my personal stuff, I want to use my personal email address for personal code commits and my work email address for work related commits.

Many a time I find I have used my work related email address for my personal work…

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August 5, 2020

tip

Garmin export

With the system outage at Garmin between July 23rd and July 29th 2020, it became clear that a user is really dependent on the Garmin systems for access to their own data. This made me think about ways to at least have a copy in my own possession.

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July 5, 2020

note-to-self

follow up

Every now and then, I run into interesting topics on the internet which want to follow up at a later point in tine. This page contains links to such topics.

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July 4, 2020

tip

scrcpy

Using scrcpy, you can control your Android phone in a window as if it runs on your machine.

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