Articles

• May 2023

  Console-Based Web Browsing With W3M

  It's old, it lacks features, and it's totally awesome

• November 2022

  How I Work on a $75 Tablet

  Turning a Fire 10 Tablet Into Something Useful

• May 2022

  Back to X11

  In which I switch back from Wayland to X11.

• February 2021

  Indie Web Companies

  The small businesses I use for web hosting, email hosting, and domain registration.

• December 2020

  How To Use Webster’s 1913 Dictionary, Linux Edition

  Accessing the one true dictionary via the command line

• November 2020

  Solving Common Nextcloud Problems

  Nextcloud is great, but it has some quirks. Here's how to fix them.

• October 2020

  Why I Built My Own Mailing List Software

  If you're a publisher, you should own your publishing tools

• June 2020

  Replacing Autokey on Wayland

  Autokey doesn’t run on Wayland, this is how I replaced it with fzf and a plain text file.

• February 2020

  How to Use Ranger, the Command Line File Browser

  Shortcuts, tips, and tricks to make you more productive with Ranger

• January 2020

  A Guide to Switching From i3 to Sway

  My notes on switching from i3/X11 to Sway on Wayland, along with solutions to common problems you’re likely to encounter as a (former) i3 user.

• April 2019

  Why I Ditched Vagrant for LXD

  Short story: 10X faster, Dramatically Less RAM

• February 2019

  Create a Debian 9 Stretch Vagrant Box

  A complete guide to creating your own custom Vagrant base box using Debian 9 Stretch

• October 2018

  Install Gitea with Nginx, Postgresql on Ubuntu 18.04

  How to set up Gitea, a nice, open source, self-hosted alternative to GitHub and GitLab.

• October 2018

  Set Up AWStats for Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04

  For something as simple as it is, AWStats is surprisingly complex to get up and running. Here’s a little guide to save you some searching.

• August 2018

  Set up Certbot for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04

  How to set up Certbot for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04, including automated renewals via systemd.

• July 2016

  Why I Switched to Arch Linux

  Everyone seems to have a post about why they ended up with Arch. This is mine (spoiler: because it’s awesome).

• January 2016

  Workflows That Automatically Spawn Backups

  Workflows which automatically spawn backups don’t need to automated. They already are. As a bonus they’re also more future proof.

• January 2016

  Automatic Offsite PostgreSQL Backups Without a Password

  How to automatically backup a PostgreSQL database on a nightly basis, and automatically copy those backups to another machine for redundant safe keeping.

• January 2016

  How to Set Up Django with Nginx, uWSGI & systemd on Debian/Ubuntu

  How to serve your Django site with nginx, uwsgi and Debian using systemd

• November 2015

  How Google’s AMP project speeds up the Web—by sandblasting HTML

  A story I wrote for Ars Technica about Google’s AMP project and why it’s a bad idea

• October 2015

  About src

  about luxagraf:src

• October 2015

  Switching from LastPass to Pass

  I used to keep all my passwords in my head. As you might imagine, this did not scale well.

• March 2015

  Setup And Secure Your First VPS

  Still using shared hosting? It’s 2015, time to set up your own VPS. Here’s a guide to launching your first VPS on Digital Ocean or Vultr.

• March 2015

  Setup SSH Keys for Secure Logins

  How to set up SSH keys for more secure logins to your VPS.

• August 2014

  How My Two-Year-Old Twins Made Me a Better Programmer

  To get better at something you have to struggle. Without struggle you’ll never turn information into knowledge or understanding.

• August 2014

  Get Smarter with Python’s Built-In Help

  Python has great docs, here’s how to use them.

• May 2014

  Protect Your Online Privacy with Ghostery

  How to install and configure the Ghostery browser add-on for maximum online privacy

• February 2014

  Scaling Responsive Images in CSS

  CSS @media make responsive images easy, but if you want your responsive images to scale between breakpoints things get a bit trickier.

• February 2014

  Install Nginx on Debian/Ubuntu

  A complete guide to installing and configuring Nginx to serve static files for lightning fast websites.

• January 2014

  Tools for Writing an Ebook

  The tools I use to write and publish ebooks. All free and open source.

• September 2013

  Whatever Happened to Webmonkey.com?

  This monkey’s gone to heaven. Again. Wired shut down Webmonkey.com for the fourth and likely final time.

• February 2005

  New Adventures in HiFi Text

  In praise of plain text