Shrink Your Symbol Fonts
Create a Custom Font Subset with Just the Glyphs You Need Imagine you’re sprucing up your website. You want crisp, scalable icons for RSS, Twitter, Instagram, and/or GitHub. You are no designer and you don’t …
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Git Aliases for the Lazy and Grug Brained
I’ll admit that I am lazy, have a terrible memory and generally fit the archetype of the grug brained developer. As such I endeavour to make my life as easy as possible, ideally with as little effort as possible. …
Realtime Status updates using a Telegram Bot
Or, How to Send Status Message from GitHub Actions to Telegram: A Guide I occasionally find myself wanting a quick and easy way to send alerts and status message and a solution I keep coming back to is using a Telegram …
Doubly Linked Lists
Very occasionally I write articles or long form notes around some idea or piece of technology that I want to think more deeply about, this is one of those notes that I managed to organise into a post, this time exploring …
Time Machine Backups Using Proxmox, Ubuntu and an External USB Drive
This guide assumes you already have a Proxmox host, at the time of writing v8.2 was current, which is what I used. It also assumes you have a basic Ubuntu 24.04 VM running on that host. If not, you should set that up …