Adding all AWS service certificate authorities to your trust store
When working with certain AWS services that require secure connectivity over TCP, you might run into the dreaded “unable to get local issuer certificate” error. This is because the service…
Lessons learned in moving on from Lightroom
Returning to photography from a post-pandemic malaise has been an invaluable experience that forced me to re-evaluate my workflow and tools. The main reason for the break was the ease…
Enhancing Kobo with text-to-image generation and simple explanations
I’ve modified my Kobo device to generate images from passages of text that I highlight. I select a passage of text, choose the “Visualize” option from the menu, and that…
Use KeePassXC to sign your git commits
Git 2.34 introduced a new feature: the ability to sign commits using an SSH key instead of just a PGP key. This means you can now manage your SSH key…
The userscript that kept me fed
When the lockdown was announced in March 2020, there was a surge of traffic to online grocery sites. Although I had been an early adopter and frequent user of several…
Automatically hyperlinking the selected text when pasting a URL
A really nice quality of life feature I’ve noticed in some applications is the ability to automatically hyperlink some selected text when pasting a URL over it. To be clear…
GraphQL’s poor developer experience
GraphQL’s touted advantages are numerous, including data retrieval efficiency, and flexibility that it can enable. This page even calls its developer experience its greatest benefit, but this is only true…