How-To

For the sake of my own discipline and for your benefit, an assortment of tech snippets.

DIY Audiobooks with make-audiobook

For six months in 2022, I stared at a hospital ceiling. Paralysed from the neck down, audiobooks weren't a luxury—they were my lifeline to the …

A file renaming tool for humans

A CLI tool that uses AI to read your files and propose sensible names — out of box it works locally without sending data to any AI/cloud services

Setup & Harden a Linux Server in 2026

Essential steps to securing any compute instance before exposing it to the big bad internet

Using Git Submodules with Local Overrides

Managing your own libraries as Git submodules can be awkward: normally, you have to push and pull between different directories to keep everything in …

Image manipulation from the command line

Using ImageMagick

Watch Youtube with Auto-Translated Captions

A quick guide

Bulk delete bookmarks in Microsoft Word

A quick VBA script to delete all bookmarks in a Word document.

Firefox: disable autofill in forms

How to disable autofill (or autocompletion) in Firefox forms

Filtering and searching in hledger

I am an advocate of plaintext accounting, and hledger is my go-to tool for this. A good summary ...

Auto-Deploy Hugo from Github

Using GitHub Actions to auto-deploy a Hugo site to a VPS (such as Linode) or directly to GitHub Pages.

Firefox: Vertical tabs are here!

With the demise of Arc Browser, fear not, horizontal tabs are finally here in Firefox (with a little help)

Firefox: How to add a search engine manually

For as long as I can remember, the right-click method to add Amazon to your list of search engines has been broken. But this method works for any site …