Having an encrypted hard drive is all well and good, but chances are that if someone is gonna steal your laptop, it’s probably not going to be turned off. Most likely, it will be stolen in a powered-on state. And so your encrypted hard drive doesn’t increase your security at all since it’s currently unlocked. In my mind, it’s a slight improvement if the computer somehow can shutdown if someone is trying to gain access to it.
One advantage that static sites, such as those built by Hugo, provide is fast loading times. Because there is no processing to be done, no server side rendering, no database lookups, loading times are just as fast as you can serve the files that make up the page. This means that bandwidth becomes the primary bottleneck, which incidentally is one of the factors used by Google to calculate your search ranking.
So I recently migrated this site from Ghost to Hugo after reading a nice article about the Hugo in Linux Voice #20 (funnily enough, the same issue also features an article about Ghost). I originally made the switch to Ghost from Jekyll back in 2014 or so mainly because I could not find a good theme to use. Ghost also seemed to have a lot of cool features and it’s fun to try new things.
Getting a great new 100 Hz Ultra Wide monitor does not come without its share of tweaking. So it turns out that the refresh you set on your monitor in Nvidia settings (as explained in a previous post does not apply to all the display ports. They apparently count as different screens with different settings or something. So, here’s a handy script which you can add to your window manager’s autostart applications to set the refresh rate and resolution of your screen, regardless of which actual port you use: #!/bin/bash -eu RES="3440x1440" RR="100" # Do for every output, so that it doesn't matter where you plug in # your monitor.
In case your python/ipython shell doesn’t have a working history, e.g. pressing ↑ only prints some nonsensical ^[[A, then you are missing either the readline or ncurses library. Ipython is more descriptive that something is wrong, but if you’re in the habit of mostly using python as a quick calculator, you might never notice: If you’re using Miniconda then just do: conda install ncurses readline And ↑ should work: