The Baffled Architect

Tag: Emulation

  • CLI Corner: rsync

    Synchronise two directories, e.g. Nextcloud and an encrypted USB drive with archive, recursive, partial, and progress flags:

  • Gogh

    Check out these awesome terminal themes at http://gogh-co.github.io/Gogh/

  • Excel – is it a working day?

    Need to know if a date is a working day? Excel has a WORKDAY function which takes a date, adds to it, and tells you the next working day. What about if a specific day is a working day? Assuming the date is in A1:

  • Expo on Codespaces

    What will I need? How long will it take? About ten minutes. Lets give it a go! Create a new Codespace using the blank template: Once initalised, create an empty Expo React App (select (y)es when prompted): Install the expo-cli command line tool globally: Change into your example project’s folder and edit App.js, maybe adding…

  • Metro not starting automatically on Ubuntu

    Expected behaviour: Should launch Metro and an Android emulator but Metro is not launched. Manually launching metro works:

  • No Internet access in WSL

    Windows might generate a /etc/resolv.conf with an incorrect nameserver while installing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It’s a quick fix – edit /etc/resolv.conf and change the nameserver (Google’s is 8.8.8.8). To prevent it being overwritten, create or edit /etc/wsl.conf adding the option generateResolvConf = false.

  • Windows Store missing

    Windows Store is never installed when I do a clean install of Windows 11. No idea why. The easiest solution is to run Xbox, and you’ll see: Click “Fix them in settings”: Install Microsoft Store.

  • Tech for Good – Volunteers Assemble

    The message at this year’s Tech for Good Summit was that as a society we face significant challenges, only by working together can we have an impact on those challenges. One of the day’s events, Volunteers Assemble, saw three big challenges identified by the Scottish Tech Army presented to small groups of volunteers. We had…