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Create New Golang Projects

Continuing our desire to be ~~lazy~~ efficient and automate common tasks, this is about a little helper for any new golang projects we create.

It’s all too easy to just check out git repositories wherever you are at the time you want it. This becomes unweildy once you have a few repos on the go. This article combines laziness and structure to live a more organised (git repo) lifestyle.

Managing Shell Configuration

Managing a bash or zsh configuration can be tricky or clunky, especially if you work on multiple different machines and want some level of consistency. This is one possible solution to the problem.

git initial-commit

I hate repeating the same manual steps over and over again. I create new git repositories quite often. I was repeating the same manual steps for each I took some time out to turn it into a repeatable sub-command for git.

Plex Database Repair on an NVIDIA SHIELD Pro

Sometimes you’ll find you have a corrupt database on your media server. This article should get you back up and running.

Google Music Cleanup

Some days you just need to clean up the mess made by Google Music Manager not recognising pre-existing files.

Signed Git Commits

Proving that you made git commits is useful. This article walks you through the steps needed to enable this behaviour.

GPG with Keybase

Managing GPG keys is one of those things that’s far too easy to forget to keep on top of. Having Keybase as part of your toolset can save you from yourself.

Configuring tmux

Being able to reboot a machine and return to the same tmux session is extremely useful. This article talks you through setting up a basic, yet extendable, configuration to achieve this.

Introducing: Werewords Deluxe

Not sure how to explain Werewords to new players? Maybe this will get you and your players up to speed.

The Ten Minute Thinking Rule

A mini-rant about something I like to call The Ten Minute Thinking Rule

Command history in the perl debugger

If you’re one of the rare people that prefers the perl debugger over warn() statements everywhere in your code you will benefit from a functioning command history in the debugger.

I Play Games

An unsurprising revelation about the author!

Welcome to Chizography!

The “Hello, World!” of blog posts.

2021