For the sake of my own discipline and for your benefit, an assortment of tech snippets.
Setup & Harden a Linux Server in 2026
Essential steps to securing any compute instance before exposing it to the big bad internet
How-To
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, vertical 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 …