Practical Linux tips and tricks – terminal shortcuts, productivity hacks, and configuration tweaks for Ubuntu and other distros.
When you publish a website or put an application behind a reverse proxy, configuring HTTPS can take longer than installing the web server. Caddy handles certificate issuance, renewal, and HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects automatically for most deployments. Once your domain points to the server, a short Caddyfile is often enough to serve the site over HTTP/2 and…
Slack is the solution most teams think of first when they are in the market for a chat application. It is known for being feature-packed, fast, and consistently updated, making it a go-to for millions of teams across the world. But no matter how good it is, it is not open source. 🙃 Thankfully, the…
Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option. Following integration work already accomplished in May for being able to provide automatic GPU detection for Intel and AMD graphics…
Apprise, the open-source notification tool offering a unified alert interface across platforms, allowing scripts, applications, monitoring systems, and automation workflows to send notifications through services such as Telegram, Discord, Slack, Gotify, Amazon SNS, email, and many others, has released version 1.12. The most notable change is the addition of nine notification services: Stackfield, Kook, PushWard,…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is prepping a bug fix update to Papers, the document viewer that replaced Evince in 25.04, resolving several annoyances – including internal PDF links that jumped to the wrong page. The internal link snafu only occurred in some PDFs, not all, and typically took you to a page one off the actual…
The ls command shows the contents of one directory at a time. When you want to see how a whole project is laid out, running ls in every subdirectory gets old fast. The tree command solves this by listing a directory and everything below it as an indented tree, so you can take in the…
OpenCode brings an AI coding agent right into your terminal. Once you see it understand an entire project instead of just the file you’re currently editing, it’s hard to go back to a regular editor. I spend most of my day in the terminal, whether I’m debugging a systemd service on a RHEL server or…
Back in 2020, I wrote about Open Book: a DIY, open source e-reader project from developer Joey Castillo that you could solder together yourself… at least in theory. It had a 4.2 inch e-paper screen, seven physical buttons for navigation, and the kind of “anyone with a soldering iron can build one” ambition that attracts…
Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August. Linux 7.2-rc3 changes this week include adding Ultra RISC-V support to the RISC-V default kernel configuration, SEGA Dreamcast driver fixes, display detection improvements to help out some multi-GPU systems, and marking Nick Desaulniers’ return to…
Night Light Scheduler is a new GNOME Shell extension that lets you control how warm your screen is throughout different parts of the evening (or day). GNOME’s built-in Night Light feature has a customisable schedule, and it lets you set a colour temperature that’s very orange, or less orange to filter out blue light. But…
