Overview

x2Go enables you to access a remote machine over SSH. The wiki entry provides the following overview:

"X2Go enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over a low bandwidth (or high bandwidth) connection. X2Go is a Remote Desktop solution, which some vendors vaguely call Remote Control. This …

A quick tutorial on using Imagemagick to remove a background colour from images. The image file format needs to support transparency e.g. PNG.

NOTE: JPG doesnt support transparency, so it would be necessary to convert the file.

Remove background color

1. Set the input file

1input="old-white.png"

2. Set the output …

A quick tutorial on using Imagemagick to add a background shadow to images. For the best result, ensure the original image has a transparent background. It is also useful to observe consistent sizes for the images.

Add a shadow

1. Set the name of the input image - for example

1input="old.png"

2. Set the name of …

Convert JSON to CSV with JQ.

jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

Being able to move between different file format is quite a common task, so I was delighted to find a quick and …

How to use Buildpacks on ChromeOS (Debian Buster).

What is a buildpack?

"A buildpack is something you’ve probably leveraged without knowing, as they’re currently being used in many cloud platforms. A buildpack’s job is to gather everything your app needs to build and run, and it often does this job quickly and …

Introduction

Build, test, and deploy on the Google Cloud serverless CI/CD platform. Cloud Build scales up and scales down in response to load with no need to pre-provision servers or pay in advance for additional capacity. Pay only for what you use.

In this blog post, Cloud Build is used for the automation of Hugo …

"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 this blog post learn how to install PDFTK used to edit PDF.

1. Install PDFTK on debian

1sudo apt install pdftk …

"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. Now use the utility to remove a watermark from a PDF.

1. Get …

Introduction

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer. It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. If you work at the command line, manage multiple machines or work in the Cloud you will definitely want to …

Introduction

If you want to build a container image there are lots of options available. Docker, Buildpacks and Cloud Build provides a very convienient way to manage builds. In this blog post, we will use Cloud Build to create an image based on a configuration.

Google Cloud Project

Definitely check out Free Tier to try …