Category Archives: Tools

Submit tags from Quod Libet to MusicBrainz

I wanted to write something like this for a long time, but for some reason never did it. MusicBrainz has support for folksonomy tagging since 2007, but the coverage of track tags is still not very good. I try to … Continue reading

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Tomboy’s “Start Here” note

I use Dropbox to synchronize my Tomboy notes. This works very well, but there is a problem when setting it up on a new computer. Tomboy has a special “Start Here” note, which is used mainly for organizing other notes. … Continue reading

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“Punchcard” graphs for Bazaar

GitHub has a nice feature called “Punchcard”. It’s a graph that represents numbers of commits by day and hour (example). You can easily see wherether a project was hacked over weekends or nights, if it’s done by full-time employees, etc. … Continue reading

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Mercurial, part 1

I’ve been using Mercurial at work for two months now and the expectations I had about it didn’t change to anything better. I guess it looks cool for people who are used to SVN, or even CVS, and are not … Continue reading

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Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS in Apache

One more short snippet, that might be useful to me in the future. If you have a website served by Apache and want your clients to only use HTTPS, you can use this mod_rewrite configuration: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off … Continue reading

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