MANAGING TMUX SESSIONS WITH TMUXP

If you are a tmux user, you might be familiar with tmuxinator, a tool that helps you manage your tmux sessions. I used to rely on tmuxinator, but I found it cumbersome to install and use on RHEL.

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UNLOCKING AN ENCRYPTED SECONDARY DRIVE USING A KEYFILE

In this blog post, I will show you how to format and encrypt a new NVMe drive with a keyfile. This will allow you to protect your data and access it easily after the root file system is decrypted.

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IMPROVING PYTHON CONCURRENCY WITH ASYNCIO

In this post, I will share my experience of optimizing the performance of a Python web scraper that downloads news articles and monitors them for changes. The project, formerly known as Nuntium and now Newspy, aims to create a dynamic archive of news articles that can track corrections, edits, or deletions over time.

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MAKING MY ARCH DAILY DRIVER MORE ROBUST

If you use Arch or any other upstream/rolling operating system, you may encounter some mishaps from time to time - such as dependency issues, corruption, and so on. Ideally, this wouldn’t be a problem because we would always backup our data regularly… Right?

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SETTING UP A PIHOLE WIFI SUBNET

I remember the good ol’ days when I would use the default router wifi setup that comes with ISP internet packages. Currently I have a raspberrypi that’s connected to the aforementioned network via wifi bridging that connection the outside to an ethernet network.

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FORCING FIREFOX TO USE WAYLAND

One of the many reasons I switched from i3 to sway was Wayland. Although Wayland is going to be the future it still tends to be a secondary option - even when apps have built in support.

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A FORMAL INTRODUCTION TO NEWSPY

Webparser and Open-Source News Archive The importance of a reliable and independent archival record of news-related articles cannot be overstated. In today’s fast-paced digital age, news articles are constantly being updated, corrected, and even removed from the internet, making it difficult for readers to trust the accuracy and integrity of the information they consume.

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NEWSPY - A PYTHON NEWS WESBITE PARSER

Since I started to learn how to code I’ve had the idea to create a news parsing script. Early iterations of the idea relied heavily on a third-party project newspaper3k. It’s a great robust project that made my introduction into python incredibly fun but, it has fails to extract certain data points and has some bloat.

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TRIAL BY FIRE: EFFECTIVE USE OF PYTHON ASYNCIO

Learning to Effectively use Python Asyncio I’m working on a old project I started when I first began coding previously called Nuntium and now Newspy. The goal is to create an archive of news articles that is routinely rechecked for changes - i.

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FIXING CI/CD ERRORS USING HUGO VIA GITLAB PAGES

No go Binary Found / SCSS Conversion Errors I was attempting to push my latest blog changes which included a new post. Something so benign turned into a cuss-filled smh moment. I used GitLab pages to host me personal website https://unkwn1.

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