Jan 27, 2018How to Clone Every Repository in Your GitHub AccountThe quick and dirty KISS way — On a fresh macOS installation, I wanted to pull down all my GitHub repositories (i) to work on my code locally and (ii) because redundant backups are never a bad thing. GitHub API I started digging around in the GitHub API, but getting set up with tokens and authentication (for private repositories)…Git3 min readGit3 min read
Sep 29, 2017How to Use Your University of Victoria Web SpaceBecause most students have no idea that it even exists… — “Computing Services allows personal homepages on web.uvic.ca. This web space can be used to host web pages, where owners can add and maintain content as well as set permissions. All faculty, staff, and students are allotted 1 GB of disk space, to be used either for email or web space…Web Development3 min readWeb Development3 min read
Sep 7, 2017Embedding a Google Sheet as an HTML TableSometimes it’s handy to use the powers of a spreadsheet to process and manipulate data, and sometimes it’s even more useful to display that data in real time, with the functionality of the spreadsheet running on the back end. You can do this for free with Google Sheets. Here’s an…Google Sheets2 min readGoogle Sheets2 min read
Jan 15, 2017Set up a UVic Linux server for software development (without root)This is a work in progress. I will continue to add to it as time permits. Any comments or suggestions are welcome! Part 1— Establishing a connection and installing zsh In UVic’s CSC 361 (Computer Communications and Networks) class, we’re required to develop and execute our programming assignments on the linux.csc.uvic.ca server(s) via SSH, servers on which we…Vim4 min readVim4 min read
Aug 17, 2016UVic VPN on macOSIt’s built in! — Connecting to the UVic VPN gives you access to all the internal assets from anywhere, like wireless printing and personal network drive storage, which is awesome. The UVic VPN set-up documentation instructs you to download and install the Cisco application to connect… but Mac OS X 10.6+ …VPN3 min readVPN3 min read
Aug 17, 2016Real-time Remote Backup with UNIX Symlinks and Google Drive[Edit — September 2017: Google has since added this functionality to their Backup & Sync client.] I’m a big fan of automatic real-time remote backups of my personal files; however, I don’t like to lose the convenience of the default folder locations of ~/Documents, ~/Pictures, ~/Sites, et cetera since I…Google Drive3 min readGoogle Drive3 min read
