Lately, I have been quickly progressing on my journey to try to use nymea in my home and other places. You can read about how I set up Nymea on an ubuntu USB drive with persistency here if you want to do it too. Shortly after setting it up and getting it working with a few standard IoT devices, I…
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Zone Minder – My Re-Visiting Journey
Way back in about 2009 or 2010 I remember my buddy installed something called zone minder on an old computer I had and with a few web cams, somehow or another I was able to monitor my coffee shop from home. It was pretty amazing and cool and free and open source. Fast forward to twenty-twenty-something, I was messing around…
Nymea Journey Part 2 – Setting up a Persistent USB Drive for Nymea Testing and Explaining
Backdrop Right away when diving into Nymea and trying to understand it and also explaining it to others, I found the need for a simple, dedicated Linux distro in my pocket ready to boot up a Nymea server wherever I am. But this thing would need to be able to save a few things – mainly my nymea setup –…
Code Snippets Busted Broke Crashed Killed My Website
Now this was a bit of a heart-attack time for me so I thought I’d do a quick blog to clarify a few things so that the victim (like me) can more calmly walk through the situation. First, let’s make sure you are in the same situation as me. Checking Situation I had code snippets installed on my Woo commerce…
How to Set Up a BIMI Logo with Inkscape
BIMI is some kind of logo plus security add on feature to email. In short, it uses a very specific kind of logo format for your company to a) show up visually in someone’s inbox when you send them an email (if they have that functionality) and b) increase email security / authenticity. So it seems good. I was surprised…
How to Fix an App Stuck Between Screens in Ubuntu
I had a weird situation today. I have two monitor displays: a laptop monitor on my desk and a big monitor above that. They are joined logically in that way in the display settings of ubuntu. Suddenly my Telegram app got ‘stuck’ between the two. The top toolbar that you grab with your mouse was unable to be accessed because…
HOW TO COMPRESS BIG PDFS IN UBUNTU
When someone sends a PDF that’s too huge, just navigate to the directory, and run this command: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=name_of_compressed_OUTPUT_file.pdf name_of_UNcompressed_INPUT_file.pdf For even smaller files and lower resolution of 150dpi, just change the /prepress part to /ebook SPEED TIP: to quickly get the path in your terminal so you can cd to it quickly, just…
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu…
My Journey to Nymea (land)
Edit: Feb 6, 2023 – Nymea has recently launched version 1.6 which appears to have added / adjusted at least some of my ‘positive criticism’ comments below so some may no longer be relevant. Further, be advised always to go to the official nymea.io documentation for the latest and greatest instructions. My stuff is just to go alongside with it.…
How to do DMARC, SPF and BIMI settings (and other stuff) in Digital Ocean DNS settings
SECOND EDIT: DEC 12, 2022 FIRST EDIT DATE: Sept 1, 2022 I had a hard time with this one for some reason. My email provider (Webnames) has an email setup page which showed the SPF records without quotations. Even their tech support told me not to use quotations in the txt file entries in my server! I guess they hadn’t…