A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

What "Wide character in print" means in Perl (hint: UTF8)

 It means there is a glitch in the matrix - agents are coming!

(further reading)

Hack your own MySQL to log in as root

$> sudo service mysql stop

$> mysqld --skip-grant-tables

$> mysql

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

mysql> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'root';

mysql> SELECT host, user, plugin FROM mysql.user;

(source)

Note-taking apps for desktop, web and mobile

November 2021

Joplin

Tomboy

  • Tomboy appears very linux-centric, although it has clients for Windows and Mac too.
  • It has an Android app, TomDroid.
  • It has a WebDAV plugin for publishing to the web
  • No web actual app

Evernote

  • Proprietary software
  • Charges actual money
  • Irritating business practices
  • Free version only allows two devices, which isn't enough

Org mode

Colornote

  • Works brilliantly on Android
  • Super fast for short notes
  • No web app

Others