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Custom Port on Socket-based SSH
I recently set up a new VM running Ubuntu 23.10. This version of Ubuntu comes with a change to the way that the ssh daemon is configured. I’ve always preferred to run SSH on a non-standard port on most of my machines. While the usefulness of this as a security measure is debatable, it’s also…
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Changing How I Learn
Over the past several years I’ve continually had a goal of making more and better use of this site — to do more blogging. I don’t have any illusions of becoming a world famous blogger or some kind of influencer, it just seems like a sensible place to put some of the things I’m thinking…
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The Evolution of Windows’ Snipping Tool
In an ever-evolving technology landscape something that has remained a need for many people regardless of platform is a reliable screenshot tool. My primary computing environment has been, and still is Windows. For a long time, the screenshot story on Windows was pretty poor. My first time really diving into Mac OS back in the…
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Making the Case for Markdown
The more things change, the more they stay the same. As technology and computing has evolved over the last 50 years something has remained constant. Like the guiding light of a lighthouse through the fog one format of data files has always remained a beacon of simplicity and stability no matter what the platform, no…
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Reinstall Quickly with Chocolatey
Over the past couple of months I’ve had a string of challenges with my main PC. I’ve been using this Dell XPS15 for the past few years and this winter it just decided to give up and stop working. Given that it was out of warranty, I had to ship it off to Dell to…