The Secure Copy Protocol is a network protocol, based on the BSD RCP protocol, which supports file transfers between hosts on a network. What that translates to in practice is a simple way to do file transfers over ssh ...…
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Raspberry Pi headless install
Because I'm lucky enough to have an awesome brother I got the gift of Raspberry Pi for christmas. These are the steps that I took to go from zero to fully functional pi running headless on my home network.…
How to upgrade a WSL 1 Linux distro to WSL 2
How to upgrade a WSL 1 Linux distro to WSL 2. What if I told you that you can just upgrade your distro with a single line of Powershell.…
More CI for Flutter with GitHub Actions - Code Coverage
This is a follow up to my previous post on getting started with Flutter and GitHub Actions, if you haven't worked with Actions before you might want to start there. In the previous post we set up a simple CI pipeline to build my Fructika app with three steps (build, analyze and test) running on an Ubuntu Linux VM , the YAML for which looks like this. on: push jobs: build-and-test:…
Automating the patching of Cascadia Code to include Nerd Fonts
Cascadia Code is a new monospaced font designed to work nicely with the new Windows Terminal. Unfortunately it doesn't, yet, include the Powerline symbols necessary to make my terminal look as shiny as I like it. Fortunately the awesome Scott Hanselman wrote a how to post on Patching the new Cascadia Code to include Powerline Glyphs and other Nerd Fonts for the Windows Terminal so now my Windows Terminal looks…
Continuous Integration for Flutter with GitHub Actions
The nice folks over at GitHub (or the evil Microsoft empire, depending on your point of view) recently added me to the GitHub Actions beta. If you're unfamiliar with GitHub Actions it's their Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline or to quote from the feature page: GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code…
Creating a Pocket desktop application with two lines of CLI
Pocket from Mozilla is my favourite way to save interesting articles and videos for watching/reading later. The standard account is free but I like both the service and Mozilla so much that I'm happy to pay for the premium plan which adds full text search of everything I've saved, smarter tagging and an advert free experience. There are pocket apps for Android and iOS and services like Pocket to…
How to get Netflix running on a Vero 4K with OSMC (or Vero 4K+💘Netflix)
If you just want to get Netflix working on a Vero 4K+ First download this repository zip.Open Kodi, go to menu Add-ons, select "Install from zip file", and select the downloaded zip.Go to "Install from repository", select CastagnaIT repository and Netflix addon.At this point everything should work but when you try and open Netflix you will get this helpful error message "Netflix error". To fix this you'll…