Setup your Git username and email
by A version control system, combined with an issue tracking system, are must-have tools for serious software development. Each time you commit a code change, you …
How to change the font of the Gnome top bar
Enjoying the Gnome desktop, including the default Gnome Adwaita theme? Just wish the font on the Gnome panel was just a tad smaller? Then you …
Install the VirtualBox guest additions in Ubuntu 22.04
Bummed that you can’t change the screen resolution in your freshly installed Ubuntu virtual machine? An easy fix exists for this: You just need to …
Read a file line by line using Python
Did you ever encounter a situation where you needed to just make a small change in a file? Perhaps even quite often, to the point …
How to create an array of strings in Python
Looking for a way to create and array of strings in Python? You came to the right place. This hands-on article explains several ways of …
Install Python applications with pipx
The new kid in town in Python land is pipx. With pipx, you install and run Python applications in a convenient way. Under the hood, …
Install software from the Debian Backports repository
Did you ever run into a situation where Debian Stable was just a tad too stable for you? You needed a newer version of a …
How to link a shared library with GCC and CMake
Interested in using a shared library in your C or C++ application? Not sure how to build your application with the GCC compiler, such that …
