Walkthroughs

Over the course of the last years, I experimented lots of stuff, mainly with computers and affiliated – actually, making this website was such an experiment. Sometimes, a YouTube tutorial or a detailed guide gave me the exact steps to follow in order to succeed, simply and swiftly. Some other times, it was one or multiple obscure forum answers from a decade ago that unexpectedly helped me. And in some occasions... I got completely stuck.

So! Dearest reader, I wouldn't want that to happen to you. Thus, I will try to give some of the help I received from the (almost) all-knowing Internet back, and write about my aforementioned experiments. So, let's walk together on some of the tracks I traced.

Installing Linux

Start simple, start with Ubuntu or affiliated (personal recommendation: Linux Mint). Rice it if you want!

Improving Linux

Better Linux basic commands

Solving Linux questions

Finding out the current notification daemon

• Find out who owns the notification bus (following this link)

dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixProcessID string:org.freedesktop.Notifications

• This will give an integer, the PID (eg 3927). Then:

ps -o 3927

replacing 3927 with your PID. Could probably do this with one line, but eh, if it works it works.

TODO for me: understand the buses and Freedesktop.

Installing Julia

Not that complicated, and well-explained. A tip: use juliaup. Maybe an opinionated article about Julia? link

Setting up a web server (still unsuccessful)

Easiest way for now : Apache2 on a Raspberry Pi.

GitHub

GitHub, ssh key, core concepts of git.

Add PPA repo, with the new, more secure way

Cf. taylor example

Collection of Julia performance tips I found

AllocCheck.jl, read the doc page, it's great!

Setting up this website

I set up this website using Franklin.jl and Githup Pages. See here for more info!