Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) version 52.9.0 https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.9.0esr/win32/en-US/ This version is apparently insecure but the default Internet Explorer doesn't seem to want to connect to modern https endpoints so this...

https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer Every now and again I need to connect to a website and then scrape something so I don't have to do a couple of hundred repetitive actions Enter Puppeteer You can basically get Chrome to do whatever you want using puppeteer and...

I have been doing a two step glabels-3-batch to LPR process but have made it so I don't have to write an intermediate file to disk. Here is my approach in shell scripting cat merge.csv | glabels-3-batch -i - -o /dev/stdout template.glabels | \ sed -n...

I have a cups-pdf printer that takes the output from glabels-3-batch # Using glabels-3-batch results in a PDF you can select and copy the text from cat merge.csv | glabels-3-batch -i - -o out.pdf 100x50sample.glabels The PDF file which glabels-3-batch creates can be...

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https://youtu.be/duqBHik7nRo Just putting this here for later. A git talk that covers everything that I wonder about with git. Also the speaker has a book which going by her previous courses will be excellent.

# Have already installed open-vm-tools on F30 and rebooted # see the shared folders available [jmcd@localhost ~]$ vmware-hgfsclient jmcd # If you don't see the above. Shutdown the VM and configure # the folder sharing from within VMWare Fusion for your # host and that...

Just putting this here as I have a SELECT in MySQL that was taking 1.946 sec to return 20 records from a table with 159884 records when using a ORDER BY DESC on a DATETIME field Creating an index and changing the FROM to FORCE INDEX () dropped it down to 0.00079 sec /...

In CakePHP variable visibility is generally defined using this standard: public $defaultConfig; protected $_defaultConfig; private $__defaultConfig; Just had a situation where I had extended a class and one variable from the base class was marked as public. My VSCode...

Just completed a migration away from AWS to Digital Ocean Need to install the Digital Ocean dotctl command line utility (this is using brew on a mac) brew install dotctl Transfer domain records away from AWS using the aws-cli #!/bin/bash domains=$(aws route53...