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Leave Your Leaves

'Dead leaves are good. Leave them where they fall.'

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November 12, 2025

Carl Sagan and Truth

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

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November 5, 2025

Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel

“Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented."

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November 5, 2025

Tired by Langston Hughes

“I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two– and see what worms are eating at the rind."

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November 5, 2025

Python dependencies in QGIS flatpak

Add packages required by plugins to the self-contained flatpak environment.

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October 2, 2025

Python "`functools.partial`" to monkey-patch Shiny's core API "`ui.output_image`"

Modify `output_image` style tags to remove the hard-coded 400px height from the "express" API in Shiny for Python

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September 11, 2025

Alias to get IP

List active network interfaces with addresses

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April 21, 2025

Set Linux XDG Default App To A Flatpak

The one where we set the default system web browser to LibreWolf installed as a Flatpak

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March 25, 2025

Install *timewarrior-dataframe* using *pipx* for pivot tables of *timewarrior* summaries

Things to know: Timewarrior (timew) is a command line tool for tracking time. Timewarrior-Dataframe is an extension processes timew export output using the Pandas Python module. Install Timewarrior can be installed on recent Ubuntu releases from the apt repositories. It can also be found in a number of other distro’s packaging systems. # Ubuntu (and/or Debian?) sudo apt install timewarrior pipx can be used to install the timewarrior-dataframe’s twdf command from it’s git repository.

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March 3, 2025