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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Reading Redshift’s Current Transition Period Value for Bash Scripts or Conky or Whatever

Cats: bash, command line, linux

By PJ on February 24, 2015


Quick one-liner to read in Redshift’s current transition period value and assign it to a variable. (Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen when it gets dark.) Or assign to a variable:

Quick Way to Get Random Sentences for Seed-Data on Linux

Cats: bash, command line, laravel, linux

By PJ on February 19, 2015


When working on a Laravel project, I needed a quick way to seed in some random (but still coherent) sentences. The ultimate for PHP/Laravel projects is fzaninotto’s Faker, which can generate everything, from addresses to credit cards. If you’re in … Continued

Export/Import Keyboard Shortcuts on Linux Mint 17/18/19/20 (Cinnamon)

Cats: command line, keyboard shortcuts, linux, linux mint

By PJ on February 10, 2015


I’ve been looking for this one FOREVER. Love how easy it is to migrate home dirs and config files to a new Mint installation, but one of the things that I could never get right was moving the custom keyboard … Continued

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