general – Slurping the Dribble

Back from the Moon, Apollo Astronauts Had to Go Through Customs

Today commemorates 50 years since the moon landing. That means I’m officially half a century old! Not that I remember it, but on that day in July, I was in a baby bassinet watching Armstrong and Aldrin taking their historic steps. Apparently on their return to Hawaii they filled out a customs declaration. It was […]

matplotlib in python on linux installation

I know I will need this next time I do an install: python -m pip install -U matplotlib sudo apt install python-tk then can run a test with this code: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot([1,2,3],[2,4,5]) plt.show()

Old Time Rock and Roll

This song just came into my headphones, who else has this scene come into their head everytime they hear it?

journalctl -xef -u some.service

systemctl status … will display an excerpt. If the error is displayed when starting Caddyserver from a console, but is not shown in the logs if an initdaemon such as systemd is used (which logs stdout and stderr), then Caddyserver’s authors have forgotten to Flush stdout and/or stderr before exiting. found: https://caddy.community/t/cant-start-caddy-with-systemd-service-file/3447 I wish I’d found this little gem a long time ago!

Never, I say, NEVER…

Psychology in pricing

When you see $9.95, do you think: WOW, $9 That’s almost $10 That’s $10 When I see fuel is 174.9c although I may say one seventy four in my head (simply because that’s what I’m reading), I recognise the .9 to mean “close enough to one”, and so I think in my head $1.75. Maybe […]

Flush DNS cache in Ubuntu

According to quite a few users on Stack Exchange, Ubuntu doesn’t cache DNS queries, but I got into an awkward situation where I couldn’t hit an internal server because my installation was convinced my internal server was being hosted on an external IP. It wasn’t entirely incorrect, because the server is (sometimes) available externally, but it’s only […]

Will this haircut still be in my head on Monday?

Jason really likes his haircut. I think he’s afraid it’ll grow out before he gets to school. I convince him that it’ll still be there on Monday. Then Harry asks, “what about Tuesday?” Yes, it’ll be there Tuesday buddy. We then went through the rest of the week. It might be a bit short for […]