• Alan
• Dudley
• Walter (3B 1GB)
• Edge
• Ted
• Cornelius
• Dinglebert
• Bruce (4B 2GB)
• Zebedee (4B 4GB)

• Daemonisation

• windows task scheduler

• Sublime Text 3 plus packages, etc: sublimelinter, sublimelinter-ruby, sublimelinter-rubocop, docblockr (restart needed)
• Atom
• VS Code: auto comment blocks
• Fonts
• Firefox: CustomCSSforFx, Dark Reader, Push to Kindle, Web Developer, uBlock origin, (Gesturify, Sidebery)
• WikiDocs (markdown, flat-file wiki)
• DevDocs
• zsh:
  • oh-my-zsh
  • zsh-autosuggestions, which needs to be installed (unlike many plugins)
  • git
  • colored-man-gapes
  • sudo ??
  • copyfile
  • copybuffer
  • dirhistory
  • zsh-abbr

Index of Debian releases.

1. Bookworm basics
2. Pi basics

Bullseye basics, pi basics.

• chruby or try asdf

Buster basics, pi basics.

• pi-hole
• certbot for letsencrypt (billy colin), and renewal
• production/LAMP basics:
  • (Note that puma alone is a respectable choice for Rails)
  • apache (legacy)
  • lighttp (low resources, def for pi)
  • nginx (highest performance, works with Passenger or a good choice to forward port 80 to puma)
• ruby
  • rails
  • Environment manager:
    • chruby chruby the most lightweight, rbenv mid-way and rvm most invasive
      • Or maybe try asdf next: one environment manager to rule all languages
    • RVM (install)
    • rbenv
  • production
  • bootstrap
  • bumping ruby version
• porridge

Stretch basics, Pi basics.

• networking
• colemak
• raspi-config
• network config
• ruby
  • rbenv
• samba
• time
• certbot for letsencrypt (ssl/https)
• alito (VBox)
• vpn (openvpn/privateinternetaccess)
• get_iplayer
• qtphoto
• ftp

Jessy basics.

• Colemak
• capsctrl
• grub
• git
• nvidia (aka x won't boot)
• get_iplayer
• backuppc
• virtualbox
• vpn
• qtphoto

• virtualbox
• rufus

• temperature

• rails (incl rbenv)
• sinatra
• web analytics
• migration

• ruby
  • chruby
• elixir
• unborking

• Ruby, Chartkick and Chart.js

• Caps lock, control and MF command
• Turn off the replacement of “ ” with “. ”: settings → keyboard → input sources: edit… → “add full stop with double space”
• Apps:
  • GNU Screen – the pre-installed default as of early 2023 is version 4.0.3 from 2006, so you'll be wanting to brew install screen or it'll blow up when it sees your .screenrc
  • Iterm2, with a custom keymap that individually converts command combinations to control combinations, and selectively does the same for alt-., alt-f etc.
  • Firefox
  • Mos or other scrolling fixup
  • brew install coreutils and make sure their bin folder is in your PATH – otherwise ls foo -la won't work
  • brew install alt-tab
  • brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts; brew install font-fira-code (installs for current user) and enable
  • chruby
  • rectangle for a straightforward window manager
  • brew install nano (by default aliased to pico, you will need to remove the symlink)
  • maccy for clipboard management or flycut?
  • Itsycal for sane scrollable month view
  • karabiner-elements (maybe) for complex keyboard remapping – but beware that it overrides all system mapping, so if you set caps lock to control in system settings then karabiner will map caps lock back to caps lock unless you duplicate the config by hand
• Cloning SD cards or creating backup disk images (unmount before writing)

Extensions:

• Auto-run tests: noku.rails-run-spec-vscode
• Goto equivalent test: Lourenci.go-to-spec

Slackware (13.0, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1 on a Sony Vaio VGN BZ21VN, Zotac Zbox ID81, Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E535, and any combination of ancient desktop hardware)

Check updated packages: ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/

• HTML::Entities (get_iplayer)
• Image::ExifTool (qtphoto)

• mini_exiftool (qtphoto)
• rmagick (qtphoto)
• fileutils (qtphoto and maybe others)
• exifr (qtphoto tried to remove but perhaps not from everywhere)

• wxGTK from SlackBuilds (Filezilla)

• Keymaps (13.0)
• Fonts (13.0)
• App List (13.0)
• Development (13.0)
• /etc (13.0)
• Printers (13.0)
• Dictionaries (13.0)
• get_iplayer (13.37)
• packet injection
• xbindkeys/hotkeys/global keyboard shortcuts/arbitrary keystrokes
• openshot
• kdenlive
• filezilla
• libtorrent
  • rtorrent
  • mktorrent
• flac to mp3
• truecrypt
• memory recovery
• vlc
• jedit
• ntfs-3g
• jhead (qtphoto)

(Stuff that ought to be Slackware-persistent that “ought to be” persistent:

• backlighting
• cdiff)

• Migrating Microsoft Office settings

Windows (XP Professional SP3, on a Sony Vaio VGN BZ21VN, 7 Professional 64bit, on a Sony Vaio VPC S11V9E, 7 Professional SP1 64bit, on a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E535; 10 on an Acer Swift 1 and cornelius)

• Keymaps
  • Control keys
  • Colemak
• firefox
  • Mycroft Project
  • multi-row tabs
• ninite
  • FileZilla
  • Krita
  • GIMP
  • Inkscape
  • 7-zip
  • Zoom
  • Skype
  • Audacity
  • VLC
  • Handbrake
  • Foobar2000
  • MediaMonkey?
  • PuTTY
  • WinMerge
  • LibreOffice
  • Everything?
  • Steam
  • qBittorrent
• linux (WSL) on Windows (from Windows 10 on)
• Sublime text 3
  • InsertDate
• Printers
• Sansa Clipp
• Cygwin/Ruby/Gems
• NTFS-3G permissions
• TClockEX
• Winsplit Revolution Aquasnap
• Handbrake
• Exact Audio Copy
• JDiskReport SpaceSniffer
• Inkscape
• Dia
• vlc
• Pidgin Telegram

• PuTTYtray PuTTY and migrate registry settings
  • PuTTYtray autoreconnection fork (and save settings to file)
  • PuTTY!
• jEdit Sublime Text 3
• VirtualBox
• TrueCrypt VeraCrypt
• SourceTree
• FooBar2000
• thumbs.db
• Office macros
• ImageResizer
• Everything
• XYplorer
• QGIS

Laptops:

• TouchFreeze

In use: Fira Code, Roboto (incl condensed, mono, slab); Lora.

Useful: Crimson Text [Garamond]; Noto Sans JP; Open Sans (incl condensed); Libre Baskerville; Merriweather.

• rip
• mp3
• create torrent

Alan, (Al)Bert, Arthur, Barnabus, Clive, Colin, Cornelius, Derek, Dudley, Dunstable, Harold, Humphrey, Oscar, Ted, Walter, Zebedee

Maggot, skipjack chipmunk, albacore, yellowfin, weasel, poodlemoth, batfish, molerat, spidercrab, sparklemuffin, seapig, gecko, blobfish, yeticrab, hagfish