It's increasingly important to obtain an HTTPS certificate in order to ensure websites are running as intended in various browsers. So I took in upon myself to set one up for my domain. To get started, I went to Let's Encrypt's Getting Started page…

I needed to clear some disk space and wanted to find out if there are any programs I'm not using that take up substantial space. Thanks to this Unix StackExchange post , I can do this: Essentially, list all installed packages with the size first…

After using Lubuntu for a while, I wanted a change. It was time to try a new Linux distro. My criteria: something that is lightweight (still want to run it on the 12 GB SSD) but with just enough power for a friendlier user interface and room for…

Here's a simpler way of deleting old Linux kernels. Install Byobu : After that, the command to remove all Linux kernels except for the two latest is:

I finally finished my portfolio site ! I used Kube as the main CSS framework and React for the Javascript. On the back end is Meteor as it was easy to set up and get going. The idea is a single page application (SPA) which consists of displaying my…

If I want to take a screenshot on Lubuntu, I can simply press PrtSc on my keyboard and have the file available in my home folder. What I discovered recently is that there's a shortcut to take a screenshot of only the window: Alt + PrtSc . Sadly…

As I'm getting Lubuntu back to how it was before, I noticed that my volume keyboard shortcuts don't work. The Fn keys definitely do their job, but for toggling mute and adjusting the volume level, nothing happens. I try to remember what I did to fix…

Today I get a notification from Lubuntu informing me that an upgrade is available to 15.10, or Wily Werewolf. I was mildly interested and thought why not, and started the installation. Along the way, somehow I had butchered the upgrade process. Let's…

While I was working on my Linux partition, I saw a software update was pending and gave it the go-ahead. It was then that I realized that I only had a couple hundred megabytes of space left, out of the total 13GB. I use my Lubuntu to do the bulk of…

There's something satisfying about typing up Markdown notes on Sublime Text. You could say it's almost sublime . A useful package I use is Markdown Preview , which allows you to preview Markdown files in your browser window. To install it, Ctrl…

Dual-booting Lubuntu with Windows nowadays is really easy. The later versions no longer need to worry about Secure Boot or UEFI to be installed, which made installation on my Thinkpad Yoga a breeze. I used Lubuntu 16.04 LTS on my setup. One thing…