Remmina SPICE SSH Tunnel Bug and a Workaround

It was the second week of August 2024. We realized that the television in our family space had suddenly stopped working. It would start, flash blue for a moment, and restart. If we left it running for a while, the boot logo would appear with parts of the panel garbled. This was no cheap, no-name, no-brand “smart” TV—at least that is what the...

So here is a simple JavaScript task I had to tackle for Toph: When a user clicks the Print button, open a new tab/window and activate the print dialog. Close the window when the user confirms the print or cancels the dialog. Attempt 1: Call window.close() Immediately After window.print() I used the onclick attribute on the Print button to open...

And one hundred. I have posted 100 blog posts in the last 365 days. Why? Because I took on this #100DaysToOffload Internet challenge. My brain, trained on decades of video games, is tuned to enjoy challenges, no questions asked. But this challenge is very different from those social media challenges that die as fast as they become popular. How?...

I have been writing software professionally for over a decade. I have been writing software for even longer than that. This week was the first time I wrote an Android program. Some journey it was. But that is a story for another day. Today, in this blog post, I want to share a strange issue I encountered with Android Emulator and a fix. If you...

I have several scripts and automation on my primary computer at home that can run when connected to the local area network of my workspace through a WireGuard connection. These scripts are for routine tasks for my servers at my workspace, like backing them up to remote storage. When the WireGuard connection is not running, the scripts fail at...