Computing-and-Programming

The Three Phases of Password Hosting For the longest time, I hesitated to use a password manager. Trusting a cloud service for such an important matter did not sit well with me. For years, I kept all my passwords in a notebook. This was the pen and paper phase. It worked, but over time, the content grew too large. Changing passwords got messy. And if I lost my notebook (which, fortunately, did not happen), I would be in trouble. Maintaining a backup ultimately meant taking photos and trusting internet-touching devices and internet-based services. ...

Just found out about this neat tool called imagemagick. I’m using it to compress jpg images small webp images for use on this blog. Install it (in arch-based linux) using this command. sudo pacman -S imagemagick Then run magick image.jpg -resize 1600x -quality 75 image.webp to create a compressed version of the image. Here the max pixel width is set at 1600 px, and the quality is at 75 (moderate compression). ...