Assorted ramblings
Recently I've been backing up some iPhone photos. These photos have been in the HEIC format and that was not supported by Image Viewer and this made it hard to review them.
It was possible to get this to work by installing a missing package:
$ sudo apt install heif-gdk-pixbuf
After installing this I could see these photos in the Gnome Image Viewer application.
Here's a command I've been using to find the temperature of some of the hardware I've bene running from the command line.
Old platter based hard drives are really slow compared to some newer SSD technology, but they are still cheap!
I've been helping a friend speed up their online store and some plugins are incredibly slow. Feels like the most recent chapter in the ongoing website bloat saga.
A useful tool for formatting the output of Postgres explain tool.
Functools provides a decorator called cached_property in python 3.8+.
pdfsizeopt is a tool that can reduce the filesize of pdf files.
How to set the SSH key to be used when cloning a git repository.
Pylint is a very powerful tool but it's also hard to use effectively.
I ran into a slightly weird issue with Pelican, here's how I debugged it.