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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ChromeOS Terminal

The default terminal in ChromeOs was making some of my applications look less than their best. For example Pass is one of the main applications that I use on a regular basis. When using this software the border that was meant to be shown as lines is actually displaying garbage characters.

The above …

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Introduction

Recently I have been tasked with the job of testing lots of web based applications. Historically this has been a manual effort, so to begin the new year I looked at how this might be automated. Having looked at a number of options, I remembered a really cool piece of technology I used for web-scraping. …

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