Cloud Shell is super useful and features a lot of tools. However out of the box the general setup doesnt match my local machine. If you want to use tmux or vim in your environment, this blog post is for you.
The following is a quick summary of changes made to update Cloud Shell to be a bit more like my own machine. …

An Nginx reverse proxy enables client requests to be forwarded on to a backend server. In this scenario the backend server provides responses to the client. A setup like this can be useful in a number of situations where Nginx is used to control the processing. It is also a nice security setup as the Nginx acts as a …

A REST API is super useful and can present a simple way to efficiently access information. This blog post is dedicated to the folks who want to create an API. It seems like a lot of folks are in this boat by the amount of comments over on sites like Reddit. Lets get started by building a GET/POST API in Node.js. …

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 …