This machine runs a lot of services and I don't use all of them. After breaking several of them and not noticing (again), I decided to finally set up service monitoring. After some research, Monit was relatively easy to set up and seems to meet my needs. I figured …
Getting patches into open source projects
There's an open source project you want to use, but it's missing a feature you need, or has a bug you need fixed. You can implement it yourself, but you want to make sure the patch will be accepted by the project's maintainers. This guide will explain how best to …
systemd user services are amazing
In the last few days, I've needed to set up several long-running services and I just wanted to take a minute to talk about how helpful systemd's user services have been.
The things I wanted to run are:
- A Node.js server which is started with
npm run - A Node …
How to disable Wi-Fi Direct on the Roku 2
If you want to disable Wi-Fi Direct on the Roku 2, follow these steps:
- Go to home
- Settings
- System
- Advanced system settings
- Device connect
- Disable Device connect
If you're monitoring local networks, you should see the Roku network disappear. On my network, the Roku network was hidden, but I was …
Website metadata and improved reading mode support
It's that time of year again: Time to make needless improvements to my website. This time, I was annoyed about how my pages were showing up in Google, so I added Microdata to my articles. One thing lead to another, and I ended up with Microdata, Open Graph