"PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit. PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. It comes in three flavors: PDFtk Free, PDFtk Pro, and our original command-line tool PDFtk Server."

In a prior blog post, the PDFTK utility was installed.

Working with PDF can often produce multiple files that …

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Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, which is a fancy way of saying it give you the ability to run multi terminals. Google Cloud Cloudshell uses the default Tmux configuration which makes me not want to use it.

However help is at hand. You can update the settings and this post covers how to make those changes. Cloudshell …

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ChromeOS Screenshot

ChromeOS added a cool feature to allow videos as well as images to be taken from the desktop.

The cool part of this feature is you can choose which part of the screen to snapshot. If you are a blogger, this makes you life much simpler and is a welcome addition. The output by default is Webm, …

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Overview

Xpra is an open-source multi-platform persistent remote display server and client for forwarding applications and desktop screens.

The Xpra homepage provides the following overview:

It gives you remote access to individual applications or full desktops. On X11, it is also known as screen for X11: it allows …

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Cloud Run Regex

Normally when someone mentions regex its time to make a swift exit. Since I was working on a new project featuring Cloud Run I needed to face my fears. This is my story.

Regex for the masses

Cloud Run has a defined url signature which is common across all deployments. If you need to check that this …

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