EGOPOLY

Let's Encrypt Cheat Sheet

2020-06-16

OK, just type /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto

That will do it.

Go Hugo, a command line tool for static sites

2019-07-31 10:00:03

gohugo.io looks like my dumb go blog go system, but actually good.

Notes on Setting Up a New iPhone

2017-11-30 15:56:34

As of iOS 11, setting up a new iPhone is easier than ever. You can take the old phone and hold it near the new one to transfer wifi config and Apple ID basics. From there, a restore from iCloud takes care of most everything.

There are some things that do not come along with iCloud restore. Here's a checklist, which are things that got me when I set up my new phone the other day:

• log in to every account-based app, such as Amazon, Audible. For an app like Audible, you'll want to pre-download your favorites or whatever you are listening to now.

• Transfer security token app, such as Authy. Authy the app on your new phone might not maintain it's status from a restore. You can authorize a new instance from the old phone, so make sure you do that before wiping the old one.

• Re-add audiobooks. I have some audiobooks that I bought outside of Audible and iBooks, and there is not a way to load them in easily. It used to be that you could sync them from iTunes, but that has just become an awful experience, if it works at all. I use an app called MP3 Books, which lets you load books over wifi from you Mac or PC. It's a little clunky: you start a file server inside the app on the phone, then connect to it from your Mac/PC as you would connect to any file server on your network. But things transfer very fast.

• Load up non-iTunes movies. Suppose you have home movies or something like Star Wars Despecialized. Syncing those through iTunes is a very bad experience. You can use an app like Infuse or VLC to cross load the movies from your PC. Works very much like the books app above.

• Check Find Friends and make sure the new phone is the one sharing your location with your family.

• Log in to Dropbox app/Google Drive app to make sure they are connected to the iOS Files app.

PDF Writer Setup on Mac OS X

2017-10-24 11:08:00

PDFWriter is a virtual printer you can install on Mac OS to create PDFs. This might seem dumb because creating PDFs is built in to Mac OS. However there are a number of weird cases where this is useful, usually related to dumb enterprise software.

There are instructions that I always have trouble finding:

• Install PDFWriter package by double clicking
• Go to system preferences Printers and Scanners pane
• Click the Plus sign to add a printer and select PDFwriter
• In the Use: field it defaults to Generic PostScript Printer this doesn't work use the drop down and choose "Other..."
• Now you have a file dialog box, navigate to /Library/Printers/Lisanet/PDFwriter/PDFwriter.ppd and click the Open button
• You are back in the Add printer dialog box, click the Add button and you are done!

Back Online

2016-07-15 18:42:00

The blog was completely offline for a while because my Macminicolo machine died a slow death. Well, it's not really dead, but it is in a sort of coma. Probably a bad disk, everything is insanely slow that touches the disk.

I thought maybe it was time to set up a VPS instead of a "real" machine. I had the usual struggle trying to remember where to put the directives to enable mod include, and I had to remember how to set up GOPATH for the go installation. I think everything is working now except the massive mod rewrite file.