Git offers many hooks to use for various tasks that need to be run pre/post commits, merges and many other events. To utilise them one simply n

The package manager in Fedora Linux can sometimes be slow (mainly when updating repositories and metadata). Beyond that there are some tricks t

Sometimes, one would like to specify when a task should be run. It is easy to do so via the `when:` field as such:

Using the `ip` utility one can easily view the arp cache, which is under the `neighbor` option. It can be used to view some of the machines on

There is already a utility to generate hashed passwords for openldap via the `slappasswd` utility as such:

One way to add packages to NixOS is to add the required packages to the pkgs list in the `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix` as follows:

If one wishes to use the `copr-cli` tool to manage their copr repos then most likely they will need to generate API keys. To do so, one simply

A way to make it simpler to add new parameters to structures without having to edit the constructor every time.

In sql, one can easily find results that are present (or not) in a subquery via the exists statement.

Using the `copr-cli` tool, one can easily create a project and even specify the default arches to build against as follows:

Sometimes in order to debug some issues, one needs to create a unix socket. Thankfully, this can be done easily with netcat as follows:

When writing complex commands in the shell, sometimes one needs to drop into their editor to ease the process. In bash this is done by either `

It is often the case that one wants to make sure that he removed some key, or if they ever commited a secret to their repo. This and other anal

It is quite helpful to list the packages I installed manually on my machine, especially before perfomring a fresh install, so that I know what

One can easily search openldap via the `ldapsearch` command as follows:

In Fedora (and other Linux based distros using the same DNS cache service), most likely systemd-resolved is the DNS cache. Sometimes, one would

When running Ansible tasks, sometimes it is needed to store the output as it can determine what to do in other proceeding tasks. One can do so

Vagrant provides many ways to exchange folders/files with the virtual machine. Rsync is a simple one and is done as follow:

Unfortunately, by default the vi mode in bash does not have a binding to clean the screen while in insert mode. In order to add it one needs to

If in the history of a git repo, by mistake, one commited a private API Key, or whatever secret token into the repo, then history rewriting is

In bash, one can check if a socket file exists with `-S` as follows:

To simply mount your google drive into a google colab session, use the builtin `google.colab` library as follows:

In python one can memoize a function with a single directive.

Forwarding ports is easy in vagrant and can be done as follows:

To bypass CORS errors (but one needs to understand it first rather than falling into the tar pit of immediacy like me) in a cloud function one

Using the `copr-cli` tool, one can easily upload an srpm they prepared to one of their copr repos as such.

There are many formats for 3D assets such as OBJ, VFX, GLTF/GLB, USDZ, PLY and many others. Many times it is quite important to switch between

I've been playing around with brace expansion in Bash lately and I noticed an interesting thing. The below seems to expand to `a{a..z} b{a..z}

There might be a more "correct" way of doing it but that's what I found for now:

Turns out there are many ways to do so, the one I felt was the simplest is to use openssl as follows:

When using vagrant, sometimes the box one needs to use does not support the providers available on the system. In order to solve this issue, a

Sometimes when using a reactive frontend framework (`svelte`, `vuejs`), pushing elements to arrays using the `.push` method does not trigger re