Recently came across a requirement that consisted of a list of items to display which is decorated by a smaller list of colours. The colours were to cycle through and wrap at the end of the list — starting over from the beginning. Mini Challenge 01: Changing Background Colors for Certificates Card Story for the… Continue reading Array wrapping with modulus
Tech Meetups
Tech Meetup Calendar
Rewrite address (To:) of message in postfix’s email queue
If an email gets stuck in postfix’s deferred queue, there are a couple of ways to deal with it.
Mailing List
For general discussion, the “discuss” list:
https://lists.bclug.ca/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Alternately, send an email to discuss-subscribe@lists.bclug.ca, then simply reply to the confirmation email message.
Email lists with Mailman3
Is migrating from Mailman2 to Mailman3 too much of an ordeal?
Is it worthwhile?
Does Mailman3 consume too many resources?
Deploying React Apps
When deploying React apps on Apache or nginx, in a sub-folder of the root / DocumentRoot, there are some issues to consider. While the deployment guide suggests setting “homepage”: “.” in package.json, others have advised against this. Taking that at face value, I used “homepage”: “/react/react-hooks”, which initially appeared to work. However… static images from… Continue reading Deploying React Apps
Give me http, Firefox
Firefox … forcing https. Great! How do I override it for my niche situation?
http server – in bash!?!
A discussion came up on one of the LUGs this weekend (Victoria’s VLUG). Craig had a situation with a router with low specs that he wanted to retrieve some info from. The idea of a simple http server in bash came up. I thought, “Nah, can’t be done.” I was wrong. He found a Github… Continue reading http server – in bash!?!
ReactJS handleClick
Thoughts on styles of handling Click events in ReactJS
Ubuntu Pro
Ubuntu Pro & esm-apps: Universe repo getting curation?
RAID1 farce2
At the end of the last post about my RAID1 farce, Michael Paoli had given great and brilliant advice on dealing with accessing the /var folder in the root file system after I’d mounted a RAID on top of it. Rick Moen, also of Bay Area LUG (BALUG) chimed in with an idea on their… Continue reading RAID1 farce2
RAID1 farce
Smug in my RAID1, laughing at impending disk failure, I see RAID is empty and uninitialized.