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I started using embeddings to find similar posts on my blog about a year ago. The results were awesome: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2024/04/23/better-related-p... Such a simpl…

I changed the way I wrote my y's (now very curly) and z's (now crossed) in college while studying math after realizing I was making silly mistakes changing y's to x's and z's to 2'…

Love seeing stuff like this on old laptops! I recently built https://linuxlaptopprices.com/ , inspired by diskprices.com.

I've been using Jekyll for my blog for nearly 10 years now. I also recently wrote a little plugin that uses SQLite, though I'm using it in a minimal way as a vector database rather…

Who's eligible for IRS Free File? > Taxpayers, including active-duty military, with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $79,000 or less in 2023 can likely find an offer from an IRS F…

VS Code takes an opinionated view of this with "dev containers". Other IDEs (including JetBrains) have support as well. It's probably worth looking into a little, whether you decid…

On a related note, the number of HTTP 404 errors I see to /wp-login.php on my static website is ridiculous. (But absolutely not security risk.)

That would do it, or do this: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firef...

Shift-click (on the last photo) to select bulk photos works in the web interface. Not sure you can do all at once but you can probably do hundreds at once.

Most important quote: > Buy products that work locally and won’t stop functioning when management wants an additional revenue stream.

Same thing happened to me. 10 years ago using Linux on the Desktop was tricky but worth it for me. Now it's almost the opposite, my Linux desktop feels smooth and unobtrusive compa…

https://www.mikekasberg.com Some programming stuff, some totally random stuff, and lately some 3D printing stuff! I think my most well-known post is a how-to for encrypted dual-boo…

> without the need to execute the whole call hierarchy. (e.g. an HTTP endpoint)... > “Evaluate Expression” was quite useful in exploring new codebases and checking return values of…

Crap like this makes my Linux desktop (Gnome on Ubuntu) feel nice in comparison. As the mainstream players have added more bloat/ads/etc (e.g. ads in the start menu) over the last …

I had bumped mine up once before (to 200K) and I just bumped it up again to 600K. But my wife (registered several years ago, like me) was still at 5K, I just bumped hers up too. Wi…

The way Snap updates packages caused some problems with Firefox on recent versions of Ubuntu - I wrote a blog about it: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firef…

I've found recently that walking into the local Walmart, Costco, or grocery store is a better experience than shopping on Amazon, and I increasingly try to do it instead. Need a sp…

You should look into a Dell Latitude. Specifically, look for one with Intel Graphics (for better Linux compatibility and battery life). I'd personally go for a 74xx model. They wor…

https://www.mikekasberg.com A personal blog - mostly programming and Linux.

Maybe give this a shot for mobile apps: https://appinventor.mit.edu/ It uses the same puzzle pieces as scratch, but it's a little more advanced.

It's unfortunate that there aren't better solutions for securely exposing a part of your home network to the cloud. Imagine if it were easy to set up a secure solution to access yo…

I proposed a feature along these lines as GitHub feedback. Would love to see more upvotes there if you support the idea! https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/6125

"...without working for Rockstar"

It's a reasonable question. I've run Linux as my primary OS for years, and I have no desire to run Windows as my primary OS. (Linux is what I'm used to.) My primary goal with the W…