Howtos

Sometimes there is a real need to save image from pdf without screenshoting or rendering the pdf on the screen. pdfimages helps with that.

Here are some effective methods for decoding and printing JWT tokens directly from the command line:

Or another day you want to extract image and text from the pdf…

Not every second Friday, but still… We have two mainstream approaches

Here’s a set of instructions on How to Configure to Run any Executable as a Service in Linux with Systemd.

Some time ago I described how to Deploy Flutter project with backend to AWS Amplify.

SearXNG is a free and open-source federated metasearch engine that was forked from Searx. The SearXNG project on github has more then 15k stars.

LaTeX is a typesetting system - suits well for preparing nice-looking complex documents. LaTeX offers several document classes that determine the overall structure and formatting of a document.

There is a whole world of mainstream social networks platforms. And there is a small world of alternative platforms - fediverse. I will show how popular fediverse is.

Google is showing in search results some enhancements like Movie details, Job postings, Event and Course information, which it takes from website’s Structured Data. Here is - How to add Structured Data to the site using Hugo generator.

My recent fight of this kind was around my old trusty printer/scaner Canon Pixma MP-495.

I’ve tried different tools and came to conclusion I like floccus the most.

You can install a browser adblock plugin or addon for google chrome, firefox or safari, but but you will have to do this on each device. The network-wide ad-blocker is my favorite solution.

Cropping, resizing and making borders to the images for this blog pushed me to add this frequently used feature to Linux Mint Cinnamon’s context menu.

Mainroad theme in Hugo doesn’t resize images automatically, just copies from static folder. So we need to prepare scripto ro resize and crop images to proper size.