Notes on Bluish capsule

Combinations with sum

Tue, 07 May 2019 15:39:30 +0200

To find all the possible combination for a given sector in a killer sudoku or in a “between 1 and 9” sudoku. Find all combinations for a between 1 and 9 that sums to 18 with 3 cells from itertools import combinations print [c for c in combinations([2,3,4,5,6,7,8], 3) if sum(c) == 18] Find all combinations in a killer for a sum of 22 in 3 cells from itertools import combinations print [c for c in combinations([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], 3) if sum(c) == 22]

Init git submodules

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:30:08 +0100

git submodule update --init --recursive git submodule update --recursive git submodule update --recursive --remote

Download files using scp

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:23:01 +0100

scp -P 2222 gabriele@ipaddress:/home/gabriele/*.tar.gz /home/zap/nexcloud-backup/*

Clean PowerShell history

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:07:03 +0200

Clear Windows 10 (Server 2016) history “feature” Remove-Item (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath Reset the console buffer ALT+F7 Clear PSReadline’s session history [Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine]::ClearHistory() Clear PowerShell’s own history Clear-History Commands taken from this stackoverflow article

Nomacs simple image editor

Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:25:13 +0200

Nomacs is a very lite image editor that features basic image editing and manipulation.

Git clone a specific commit

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:59:45 +0200

I need to download a specific version of a project from GitHub.

Shrink empty lines extension

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:38:00 +0200

Syntactic line compression enables you to make better use of your screen’s vertical real-estate.

Pingendo bootstrap IDE

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:52:12 +0200

Pingendo features a super simple drag and drop interface, with a rich library of prebuilt elements that lets you create web pages with ease.

Compress pdf file with linux

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:00:27 +0200

A pdf file with a lot of scanned images can be a very large file.

I reduced a file from 307MB to 68MB with limited quality loss.

Db Browser for Sqlite

Thu, 31 May 2018 15:39:04 +0200

DB Browser for SQLite is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite.

Postman API IDE

Wed, 30 May 2018 11:06:11 +0200

Postman is the most complete toolchain for API development

The most-used REST client worldwide
Designed from the ground up to support the API developer
Intuitive user interface to send requests, save responses, add tests, and create workflows

Duplicator a Wordpress plugin for site migration

Wed, 23 May 2018 18:05:59 +0200

Wordpress migration to a new host and a new domain is tricky! To move a problematic site I used Duplicator a plugin that did all the heavy lifting of changing the configuration settings, fix the db serialized strings, apply some legacy conversion to the queries and other stuff. Without the plugin a manual migration was almost impossible. Kudos to the authors.

Web Essentials for Visual Studio

Thu, 17 May 2018 11:18:53 +0200

Web Essentials for Visual Studio is fantastic collection of plugins for visual studio. The name is right: it is essential to have.

Curl

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:05:10 +0200

# save to file curl url -o filename # pipe to a command curl url | danger # -L follows redirect curl -L url -o filename

Snap and Firefox

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:43:13 +0200

Snapcraft is a tool to install containerized software packages.

Now Firefox is available!

ncdu: du with a nice interface

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:56:32 +0100

ncdu

Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don’t have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

View and extract content from msi

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:54:48 +0100

Less MSIérables From their site A tool to view and extract the contents of an Windows Installer (.msi) file. It just works. No installation required. Browse all the contents of the msi file, extract single files, view tables. Usable from a nice simple GUI or from the command line.

Remove LibreOffice

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:37:55 +0100

To free up some space I removed LibreOffice and obtained about 720M of space. sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice* sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoremove

Hugo Shortcuts

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:33:07 +0100

Some useful commands for Hugo.

Current DNS Tophost

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 13:15:08 +0100

Current values Nome Tipo Valore @ TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.th.seeweb.it ?all @ A 217.64.195.207 ftp CNAME w-10.th.seeweb.it www CNAME gabrieleteotino.github.io sql CNAME m-10.th.seeweb.it mail CNAME ghs.google.com old CNAME w-10.th.seeweb.it Tipo Priorità Valore MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. MX 2 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM MX 5 ALT2.

Bonus Paranoia

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:50:13 +0100

If you’re feeling especially paranoid there are various things you could do to reduce logging on linux.

Ansible

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:27:34 +0100

Ansible is a tool to deploy and manage devops.