Source code for NoScript
The source code for NoScript is in fact available: Repository “noscript” on GitHub. It is not that obvious. On the main page it says “…this free, open source add-on”, but without any kind of reference to where it is. You …
Author: Peter Mortensen
Get a feed URL from existing RSS feeds in Thunderbird
Very often RSS readers resist revealing the feed URLs once entered. That was the case for Firefox (the RSS reader was removed) and is also the case for Thunderbird (which has a decent feed reader). How-to It is very far …
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Formatting LBRY comments
It is not immediately obvious, but comments on LBRY (AKA Odysee) videos can be styled just like YouTube videos can be styled (bold, italics, and links). Styling can make a comment easier to read and easier look to at at …
Drawing a line in Pinta
Just like in Inkscape, finding out how to do the simplest of things, drawing a straight line in Pinta (a drawing program equivalent to Paint on Windows), is unbelievably difficult. For instance, the help text for the tool says “Press …
Using Geany as a replacement for UltraEdit
UltraEdit for Linux is extremely buggy and corrupts the text documents. The corruption happens with using column mode, possibly worsened by using split windows (I mostly use vertically split). Column mode has always been buggy in UltraEdit, but in the …
Bold and italics in YouTube comments
If you use a search engine, you may find out the base rules for styling in YouTube comments, but they never tell you the whole story (for it to actually work in all cases). In fact, at first glance, it …
The secret index of all Stack Overflow blog posts
It is not easy to find or review older Stack Overflow blog posts. Doing it manually by clicking the link “Older Articles” only gets you a very limited number of entries per page (currently five), and you have to scroll …
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Getting the ARM toolchain to work on Ubuntu 19.04 and later (including for Black Magic Probe (BMP))
The short version is: Download the tar ball from arm.com, extract, add the /bin folder in the extracted to the path, and make GDB work by adding symbolic links in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu for the expected version 5 of the libraries “libncurses” …
Tagged with: ARM, Black Magic Probe, Embedded, GCC, GDB, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo), Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine)