As is apparent from the lack of new posts from yours truly over the course of the past couple of years, I've fallen off the blogging wagon. I still read others' blogs from time to time but I myself haven't found the time to sit down and write new posts …
Articles in the Quick Thoughts category
Mirroring My GitHub Repositories
Once upon a time I distrusted all proprietary code, self-hosted everything (even my email), and was generally fairly paranoid about the privacy and security of my data. While I still run a server at home, it's mostly for the convenience of having a local SMB share and a couple of …
xRDP Black Screen Issue
Lately I've been doing a lot of work over RDP, even when connecting to Linux machines. In some cases though, I've been met with a black screen instead of the expected desktop environment, particularly when running Kali Linux as a virtual machine on Proxmox. I'm not quite sure why, but …
Moving to cgit
Earlier this year I wrote a blog post on how to set up gitweb in order to be able to view your repositories in a browser. Originally my intent for using gitweb was not for my own personal use but more to be able to share my code with the …
Is it Safe to Store your google-services.json in a Public Git Repo?
I maintain an open source app called Simple Markdown. One of the things I've been working on for it lately is getting some CI server setup to be able to automate the testing and packaging of the app. I'll still handle the publishing myself but I'd like to speed up …
Getting More into Blogging
I follow quite a few blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels related to software engineering, and a common theme I've noticed between several of the producers of the more inspirational content I follow is that they recommend doing something to get yourself out there, be it maintaining a blog, speaking at …
Testing Your Android Apps for Chromebooks - When You Don't Have One
While I don't have a Chromebook, I recently bought a Samsung Dex, which for those of you who aren't aware of what that is, it basically allows you to take your Samsung phone, dock it, connect a mouse, keyboard, and external monitor, and use the phone as if it were …
Simple Markdown January Updates
I barely managed to squeeze these updates into the end of January, despite a busy post-holiday season for me. Simple Markdown is still not polished enough for me to call it a 1.0 release yet, as there are still plenty of rough edges to smooth out, and a few …
WebView Memory Leak
A few months ago, I published an app called SimpleMarkdown, which, as you can probably guess from the title, is a markdown editor. I had a strange bug that I couldn't quite figure out no matter how much I searched it and eventually I had to put it on the …