Thomas Venturini

Yesterday I noticed that the server time on my new server at digital ocean was still set to the wrong timezone. Here is how to fix it with a simple command.

The other day I had to prepare a very large data source before importing it into the database. So here is a nice tool to help you with this kind of task that your IDE might refuse to do for you.

Today I was facing another mysql issue when working on my new side project. The issue was that I was writing more jobs into the jobs table than the database queue driver could work off. Here is how I solved this issue and how I would recommend everyone to setup their queue on small servers.

I always see people using their editors to look into logs. So here is how not to embarrass yourself when working with log files 😉

Yesterday I had to figure out why the f*** the microphone of my headset was not available in the audio settings of my PCs Ubuntu system and how to fix it.

In this small article we are going to take a look on how you can create a bootable usb stick ready for your UEFI bios.

Last week we took a look on how to create a bootable USB stick using the command line tool dd. Today we are going to see how to do the same using the GUI.

I really love ubuntu but there are some things that I don't like about it. One of it is that you can't disable the ubuntu dock using the default way. But don't worry, I got you covered 😉

Today we are going to create a ssh config file so you can access common hosts faster. Also it can make everything more secure 🔒

Recently I set up my pc with Ubuntu and so I thought I document a few things I had to look up again my self. One of the things was to set up FiraCode font in VSCode.

Some introduction ...

I just learned a nice fix for missing aliases when using sudo that I wanted to share with you.

I know it is not recommended but I use it often enough, so here you have it too: A one-liner to install composer in ubuntu.