Category: Computers
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UNIX Tip of the day: simple backups
WordPress 5.9 is out! Very exciting stuff. I am really excited to try out full-site editing. I think that full-site editing will really be the moment where all of the previous work on Gutenberg starts to make sense. Editing the design of your site is just as easy as editing the content. It is also…
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UNIX tip of the day: Inserting files with sed
Today I was working on my family 2021 annual report. Usually I write this in December, but I am a bit behind this year. We have been writing one of these since 2006, and we generally have a lot of fun doing it. I write them in LaTeX, because I like LaTeX, and it produces…
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WordPress tip of the day: listing all filters
One of the most interesting and powerful design components of the WordPress software are hooks. They are not unique to WordPress, but it is the main software I use that relies on them so heavily. There are two types of hooks – filters, and actions. The main difference is that a filter expects some sort…
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LaTeX tip of the day: delete intermediate files
15 years ago, I was using LaTeX on a daily basis for writing my dissertation, articles, and presentations. I used the beamer package to create both slides and notes with the same source for several courses I taught. I am planning on giving a presentation soon and since I am lazy, I wanted to copy/paste…
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Photos, EXIF, IPTC oh my!
Today I wanted to make a post on my blog with a bunch of pictures. I used my Canon DSLR over the weekend, and I imported all the pictures into the Photos app on my Mac. My normal workflow is to first go through all the pictures and choose the best, which is usually somewhere…