Tools

I had a task to check out Roam notes. I finally got around to completing the job, and I’m glad I did. While researching, I ran into Dendron,, similar to Roam. Roam costs money, I don’t need another bill, and I’m dumping Evernote. Roam is double the cost of Evernote, so that’s a non-starter. Dendron is free, and it fills my requirements for note-taking. Free Text-based, to avoid vendor lock-in Hierarchical Note Linking Mobile Editing Storage in Git Dendron Dendron is a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) tool that can scale to over 20K notes....

How do I use email? Email is ubiquitous; most have methods for taming our inboxes. I won’t add to the legion of how-to articles specific to email clients. In the following paragraphs, I’ll explain how I keep my inbox clean. My system primarily applies to any email client. Filter All the Things ☕ I’m a zero inboxer that uses filters to achieve inbox nirvana. I create filters with prefixes. MOVE — Move the message to a folder....

Google is pushing a web standard for this feature. Navigate to a web page and select text. Paste the URL in your web browser, and you should see the highlighted text. Notice the browser highlights the text. The generated URL looks like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#42,_or_The_Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_The_Universe,_and_Everything:~:text=In%20the%20works%2C%20the%20number%2042%20is%20given%20as%20The%20Answer%20to%20the%20Ultimate%20Question%20of%20Life%2C%20The%20Universe%2C%20and%20Everything The main downside is highlight invalidation if the text changes. However, the specification accounts for that and will still jump to the content section. If the page structure changes, the feature won’t work....

What Will You Learn? What is SignalFx? How do I instrument a PostgreSQL database? Where can I learn more about SignalFx? The Basics Learning SignalFx, now called Splunk Application Performance Monitoring, can be overwhelming. There is a multitude of ways to integrate it with your applications. Choice overload can quickly set in; I like to narrow in on a fundamental problem first to simplify learning. I want to monitor a PostgreSQL database so here we go....

What Will You Learn? What are the basics of Python? What are the use cases for Python? How can I install Python? How can I create a virtual environment? How can I install packages? What are the fundamentals of Python? Where can I learn more about Python? This article assumes a working knowledge of the command line. The Basics Python is an object-oriented, interpreted, and easy-to-learn programming language. The syntax is concise and approachable to beginners....