I have a pretty old laptop, a Dell Precision m3800. During the holidays, it fell off a table and landed precisely on the power connector (don’t ask). The power connector was bent, the light indicator on it would not light up and the laptop wouldn’t charge. Fortunately such power supplies are used by other more recent models, so I was able to order one online.
Continue ReadingWith the somewhat recent announcement that Pivotal Tracker is shutting down, many of us who have relied on it for years are suddenly faced with a pressing need: how do we migrate all our project data before it’s gone for good?
I found myself in this exact position, with an established project history that I couldn’t just leave behind. Like many others, my first instinct was to search for existing tools to help me with this transition. I assumed there would be solutions out there, given how long Pivotal Tracker has been a staple for agile project management. Sure, you can export your data to CSV files, but that’s not a practical solution for a large project with years of history.
Continue ReadingThis snippet provides commands for removing local branches that have been deleted from the remote, using both Powershell and bash.
For both shells, run these commands:
git fetch
git remote prune origin
Any remote branches that you have locally but that have been removed from the remote are now marked as gone.
Continue ReadingFOSDEM 2024 is happening this weekend and I’ve put together a list of interesting topics to review at a more leisurely pace.
The SANE project lets you easily use a scanner from a Linux host. It supports many different brands and models of scanners and while it is mostly a library and server that provides access to a scanner, several clients are available that you can use to scan documents.
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