Mentally calculate the day of the week, given a date in the current year
The Doomsday algorithm is a memory trick that lets you figure out the day of the week that a given date falls on. I’ll go over the simplest variation of this...
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Standard paper sizes are an elegant example of simple maths
The well known A, B, C series paper sizes may seem arbitrary at first glance, but they are actually based on some simple basic principles which make it easy ...
A hello world example using a Docker image in AWS Lambda
AWS recently announced the ability to use Docker images in your Lambda functions. Here I’ll go over a basic set of steps to get a simple example working.
OpenStreetMap tip: tall buildings
When mapping tall buildings, it’s important to ensure that the drawn area matches the building’s footprint - where it intersects with the earth.
Setting up an Auth0 secured Angular application with dynamic runtime loaded configuration
How to set up an Angular application. Secured with Auth0 logins and protected API requests. With the configuration loaded dynamically via a web request.
Privacy - running untrusted apps safely using the Shelter app
Sometimes you may need to run an app that you’re not comfortable with or don’t necessarily trust. Android comes with a feature that lets you run such apps i...
Grub Reboot Picker - boot into other OSes and BIOS/UEFI from system tray
Grub Reboot Picker is a tray application that helps you reboot into other operating systems or kernels, UEFI, BIOS, or just reboot.
Setting up a WSL1 dev environment from the command line
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How to set the title of a tab in terminal
Both gnome-terminal in Ubuntu as well as Windows Terminal with bash allow you to set the title of the current tab you’re working in. This can be useful if y...