Ian's World
Stuff and nonsense
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Thunar sort order
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For many years I have run Debian with xfce4 desktop. I have always hated the way Thunar sorts files by name. The developers would say it is ...
Sunday, April 2, 2023
@ig3/srf - Spaced Repetition Flashcards
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It is 2 years since I gave up on Anki and wrote @ig3/srf. I have used it to study almost very day, for 2 years now. I have changed the sched...
Thursday, March 23, 2023
apt update failing with connection failed
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Today, attempting apt update was failing: Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease Err:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-secu...
Monday, March 13, 2023
@ig3/couchapp is deprecated
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@ig3/couchdb is deprecated. It works with CouchDB 3.x but vhost and rewrite rules are deprecated and planned to be removed from CouchDB 4. ...
Thursday, February 2, 2023
How I study Chinese
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Just a few notes on how I study Chinese. I study daily using Spaced Repetition Flashcards (a.k.a. srf). About an hour per day. I started u...
How to clean greasy scouring pads (Scotch-Brite and equivalent)
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I use scouring pads to clean pots and pans in the kitchen. They are like magnets for oil and grease which gets into them and won't come...
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Flush node's process.stdin
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I wrote an interactive program. It uses read to prompt the user. But it suffered from type ahead buffering, particularly at a prompt for co...
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