Practical Linux tips and tricks – terminal shortcuts, productivity hacks, and configuration tweaks for Ubuntu and other distros.
A working backup is the difference between a bad afternoon and a bad week. PostgreSQL provides pg_dump and pg_restore for logical backups. These client utilities work with local or remote databases and produce portable archives that you can load into a compatible PostgreSQL server. This guide explains how to use pg_dump for single databases, pg_dumpall…
If you’ve ever watched an AI coding agent mess up your Obsidian vault, this can help. I keep my second brain in Obsidian on the same Rocky Linux system I use for everything else. For months, I let Claude Code work with my notes without telling it how Obsidian actually works. It would create regular…
Testing experimental software is a hassle right now. You either wait for a stable release, or you dive into the pit of nightly builds hoping the whole thing doesn’t fall on your head. That gets worse on image-based systems like GNOME OS, where the base image is read-only and you can’t just swap out a…
For those that were intrigued by the recent launch of the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform with a very capable mini PC but looking for something more affordable and not needing quite as much horsepower or AI focus, BOSGAME recently launched their VTA-439 mini PC. The BOSGAME VTA-439 is powered by the AMD Ryzen…
The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 5.2 LTS, the latest long-term support version of the popular free and open-source 3D creation suite. Among the most notable additions is an experimental physics system built around Geometry Nodes, initially focusing on cloth and hair simulations. Instead of relying exclusively on Blender’s traditional, largely fixed…
When a script needs to fetch a URL, both curl and wget may appear to do the same job. Their defaults and strengths are different, however. wget is designed around downloading files and recursively retrieving web content, while curl transfers data to or from a URL and gives you detailed control over requests. This comparison…
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime used to build fast and scalable network applications. It uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model with single-threaded asynchronous programming, allowing it to handle many requests efficiently. A web application framework provides a set of libraries, tools, and helpers that make it easier to build web applications without writing everything from…
I started using Trello around 2013-14 to work on a team project. Trello was new and rising at the time for its simplicity of providing a collaborative Kanban board. After its acquisition and recent AI surge, Trello has changed a lot. But I still miss its simplicity in Kanban style tools I have tried so…
A month ago there was a change proposal raised for offering a “light” version of the GRUB2 bootloader for use in confidential computing environments. While there were some differing views on the matter for this alternative, stripped-down GRUB package as opposed to just using other bootloaders like systemd-boot, ultimately, the proposal is now approved. The…
A newly funded development effort aims to make testing experimental applications and system-level changes on GNOME OS, GNOME’s own experimental OS, considerably easier, particularly for people who are not comfortable dealing with Flatpak bundles, unofficial repositories, or manual command-line installation. The initiative, officially named the GNOME OS Developer Tool Suite and supported by Germany’s Prototype…
