How to mirror a website using wget
and an open source GUI to achieve the same thing.
Two tricks with the Chrome developer console
How to easily copy values to the clipboard, and how to pretty print objects and collections.
Making WSL colors readable
The default color scheme for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is not the most readable. Thankfully a tool exists that can change the default color scheme to something more legible.
Bookmarks - April 2018
Public DNS resolvers, WSL, and how to make colors more legible in the Windows CMD.
Striping a HTML table with merged cells
A common style applied to HTML tables with lots of data is to make them striped, i.e. set the background color of alternate rows. This is easy to do when each tr
represents an individual row to be striped, but if you have cells merged across multiple rows then this doesn’t work.
Editing Markdown in Visual Studio Code
If you have Visual Studio Code then you have a built in Markdown editor …
Entering passwords securely in Powershell
How to enter passwords securely in Powershell and how to store and retrieve them in an encrypted file.
Fun linux console programs
The cmatrix
and sl
programs will add a bit of fun to your Linux shell.
How to copy stdout to the clipboard in Powershell
Suppose you want to copy the output of a Powershell command to the clipboard. Instead of making a mess of selecting the output in the terminal and copying, just pipe the output to clip
.
DNSCrypt on DD-WRT with OpenDNS
How to set up DNSCrypt on DD-WRT using the public OpenDNS resolver.