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The following are various technical articles that I wrote as a future reference for myself. Many of them are from February 2021 and have not been updated since.

All articles are licensed under CC0 1.0 making them public domain.

Mac / OS X / macOS

Articles about Mac computers and their operating system OS X / macOS.

• Sleep behaviour
• Keeping track of launch agents
• Delete .DS_Store
• Reset Launchpad layout
• Running macOS as a VM guest with VirtualBox
• OS X as a server
  • Starting and stopping launch daemons
  • Writing launch daemons
  • Creating daemon users
  • Nginx configuration file location

Unix

Articles related to all Unix systems.

• Crontab examples

HTML

Articles on HTML, the markup language used to create websites.

• HTML modern skeleton
• Metadata tags
• Apple
  • Safari favicon
  • Apple Touch icons

Git Server

Articles on running Git on the server.

• Auto deploying to a webserver

ffmpeg

Articles on the command line video and audio processing tool ffmpeg.

• MP3 chapter markers (for podcasts)
• H.265/HEVC encoding for Apple devices
• FLAC to MP3

ImageMagick

Articles on the command line image processing tool ImageMagick.

• Scaling an image
• Trashing an image

Vim

Articles on the command line text editor Vim.

• My config
• Movement
• Tabs
• Splits
• Searching
• Replacing
• Indentation
• Position markers
• Surround line(s) with HTML/XML tags

IRC

Articles on the text chat protocol IRC.

• miniircd with Let's Encrypt
• Example raw log

CS:GO

Articles on the first person shooter video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

• Developer Blog (external)
• Updates (external)
• Launch options
• Playing on GNOME, with a 4k monitor, scaled down to 1080p, while fractional scaling is enabled

Nginx

Articles on the web server Nginx.

• Verify config file syntax

Minecraft

Articles on the sandbox video game Minecraft.

• 1.16 item with all enchantments

YouTube

Articles on (mostly downloading from) the video sharing website YouTube.

• Ripping a video with the best quality
• Watching a video without a browser
• Custom filename with youtube-dl

Docker

Articles on the virtualised deployment tool Docker.

• Starting, stopping and deleting containers
• Docker based development