The easiest solution to add flags to your Brave Browser startup is to use the brave AUR package. It has a brave-launcher script that will check for a .config/brave-flags.conf file. All you need to do is create and populate the .config/brave-flags.conf

Alternative if using the brave-bin …

One of my servers had a failure over the weekend and caused some corruption of the boot loader. This is the first time I have experienced this with a setup built on LVM and LUKS, which provided a little extra complexity to solve the problem.

This time, the Ubuntu Boot …

Small UI updates today

Added a card to show additional information:

Just for convenience a link was added to get from the register screen to the login page.

Wrote a regex in vim today that used a grouping in the find and replace. Needed to update 936 instances..

From a statement that calls a custom module function {% if entry.getEnableVal('conveyorDevToggle') == 1 to be a simple statement.. {% if entry.conveyorDevToggle %}

This is the regex used: :%s/\ventry.getEnableVal …

When trying to implement Recaptcha2 Invisible with Flask-WTF I ran into the following error:

Uncaught (in promise) null

This seemed to be a pretty obscure problem as I could not get any additional information from the application about what was going wrong. What finally got me to the solution was …

newgrp is a convienient command I ran across today. You can run this command after you add your user to a group. This allows you to continue without having to logout and log back in for the group changes to take effect.

Here is the man page:

 Manual page newgrp …

Finished documentation for a client website. Remove database backups that are more than 30 days old

Otherwise a server maintenance day:

• Cleaned internals of home server
• Ran RAM test as I have had some crashes a couple times
• Loosened the CPU heatsync screws a half turn each. There are reports …

After setting up an account with Matomo you can add the following to your peliconconf.py file.

# pelicanconf.py
MATOMO_SITE_ID = 2
MATOMO_URL = "ma.matomo.cloud"

Here is a great little bash command to remove all of the spaces of a filename and replace them with an underscore for all files in the current directory.

for f in *\ *; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}"; done

This also applies to 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 models.

With 152k miles it was finally starting to feel time to replace the suspension in The Rolla. Replacing the struts in a 2005 Corolla is a fairly easy task.
I was planning 4 hours just to replace the back …

Spent some time today working with Github actions for the first time. I set up a workflow that allowed me to lint the repo and run the tests on push.

Of course, this meant running my tests for the first time in a different environment and there was 37 tests …

Today I was filling out a survey for a product I signed up for Python Morsels to help continue my Python education and one of the questions was:

If you could wave a magic wand (written in Python) and I could grant a wish, what would suddenly be different for …

While this is not supported with all Markdown interpreters, the following will work with Pelican and many others. You can add {:target="_blank"} following the Markdown link.

[Conveyor](www.conveyor.dev){:target="_blank"}

Here is an example, this link will open in a new tab: Conveyor

If you want to get the list of repos (or any other resource) from Github, the items are paginated once there are more than 30. Here is an example of how you can use a recursive function to follow the pagination and return all items of a particular resource.

Given …

Use this command to reset the UUID

VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid ubuntu-vm/xubuntu-vm.vdi

The virtualbox port forwarding dialog will be filled in to look like the following:

The part that is always difficult to remember is that the guest ip address is 10.0.2.15.

To connect to that vm now

ssh -p 2001 [email protected]

I so rarely need to run raw SQL queries that I have to look up how to use joins every time I need to use one.

sudo mkfs.ext4 /mnt
sudo gpasswd -a michael-abrahamsen storage

Creating a logical volume

sudo lvcreate -L 250G vg0 -n vms

How can you get more granular stats for a livestream video? One option is to use Google analytics and google tag tracking.

https://www.analyticsmania.com/google-tag-manager-recipes/youtube-built-in/ has a great resource on how to set up a events with google analytics. I used this page as a resource when …

Redirecting pages with Craft-CMS. A client was using Redirect Manager with to handle their redirects but in a moment of need today it stopped working. Luckily, Craft-CMS has a redirect tag that was able to be used. {% redirect "webinar" %}

This post will explain how to add Google reCAPTCHA to a Python Flask application using Flask-WTF.

The first thing you will need to do is get your SITE KEY and your SECRET KEY from Google reCAPTCHA Make sure to create a reCAPTCHA version 2 site. Version 3 takes much more …

Another day working with Craft CMS

Using the codebase that the client gave me I was struggling to figure out how they were embedding their youtube videos into a page. The html for the section I was trying to duplicate looks like this:

<section id="intro" class="">
    <div class="container-fluid …

I'm creating a new page with editable fields using Craft CMS. I've never used Craft and am working on an already created site. With the large amount of field groups already created it was difficult to follow the docs as they said to Add a new field group. I could …

Today I am working to create a webinar registration page for a client. The proposed idea was to add a page to their Craft CMS site that would have a form to collect email addresses and send them confirmation and reminder emails. Instead of trying to figure out how to …

Updates to the registration page

To allow Flask developers to use Conveyor without a subscription some changes will need to be made to the registration page.

I wanted to make sure the onboarding process for new users is as easy as possible. To help with that, I am removing the …

Made a chart comparing some of the features of virtual conference apps. The comparison includes: Fonteva, cVent, Whova, vFairs, Evia, and All In the Loop

The goal with Conveyor is to help Python developers deploy their code.

To help serve this mission, Conveyor.dev is going to allow Flask developers to deploy an api or application to a Linode or Digital Ocean server without the need for a subscription.

Allowing users in without a subscription …

When running chsh -s /bin/zsh the command would fail with Shell not changed. The solution was to use chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh which does not fully make sense to me because chsh -l lists both /usr/bin/zsh and /bin/zsh. Fixed and moving on.

This is a documentation of an Arch Linux installation with luks and lvm.

The drive will use a boot partition which will remain unencrypted with a second partition which will be encrypted with luks and then use lvm to create volumes within the lux encrypted partition.

Resources: https://computingforgeeks.com …

Found a UI bug on the Conveyor event output. The close button is outside of the event modal.

To fix this I'm actually going to move the close button up to the top right corner and make it an X. Just a small rearrangement of html:

<div class="border-b text-center …