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Sharing Files Between WSL2 Instances

By Joel Byrnes | Published: December 11, 2020

I’ve been trying out the Windows Subsytem for Linux lately, using Ubuntu on WSL2. I currently have multiple versions of Ubuntu installed, allowing me to easily get a console to either one.

The “problem” I was trying to solve was: not wanting to generate new SSH keys on Ubuntu X, when I already registered SSH keys on Ubuntu Y.

After a little bit of research, trial, and error — I found a solution that I found acceptable.

Apparently in WSL2, the directory /mnt/wsl is automatically shared between all instances.

In my case, I just had to copy the SSH keys into this directory, hop over to the console of my other Ubuntu installation, and copy them to the correct directory. Then running ssh-add, of course.

Pretty sweet, and not super-obvious.

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Using & Abusing Google Webfonts

By Joel Byrnes | Published: November 11, 2013

Central repos for webfonts are probably one of the greatest things to happen to the visual web. Â Hundreds of fonts are now easily available to spice up your content.

I’ve recently found a few nice nuggets for those that use Google’s webfonts, that I thought are worth sharing.

Posted in Code | Tagged CSS, typography | Leave a comment

A Week Without Google Search

By Joel Byrnes | Published: February 26, 2013

When you search the web a lot, you start to feel the rough spots of the search engines. Â Working with a handful of different frameworks and languages requires to me visit a search engine several times a day. Â Whether I’m checking for the existence of some obscure PHP function or trying to figure out the proper way to do something in a framework, Google is my friend. Â I’d bet that this is pretty standard among web developers.

Due to some light anti-Google rebellion that has be brewing within me, I seem to have decided to avoid using Google to perform my daily searches.

The plan is to use a different, old school search engine, everyday; instead of Google. Â Going in to this, the only prediction that I have made is that: these, most search engines probably return results of a similar quality. Â Besides search quality, I’m not sure what else to expect. Google has been my goto search engine for a long time. Â I’ve definitely used other search engines in the past, but am straining to remember when I defaulted to Google.

Today was Day One of my Week Without Google Search.

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Installing SSL using OpenSSL on a WAMP localhost

By Joel Byrnes | Published: April 7, 2011

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I’m working on a project that is requiring me to use SSL (to make a https connection) on my local installation of WAMP. Â After much searching and a couple tries, it appears that I finally got it working. Â This post should be useful to anyone who is trying to do the same.

Posted in Software | Tagged SSL, WAMP | 142 Responses

CSS Document Link Icons

By Joel Byrnes | Published: January 31, 2011

Sometimes you will find yourself linking to documents from a page. Â Suppose you need to link to a PDF, an Excel spreadsheet, or a Microsoft Word document. Â I think that it is in good form to visually denote that these links will begin a download.

In a lot of cases, these types of links look exactly the same as any other HTML link. Â Not exactly optimal from a usability standpoint.

After the jump, I will share a little CSS trick to give document download links a proper icon automatically.

Posted in Code | Tagged CSS | 1 Response

List of Countries

By Joel Byrnes | Published: January 27, 2011

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Once in a while, you are working on a project where you need a list of every country on this planet.

Posted in Code | Tagged Lists and Arrays | Leave a comment

Blog Louder

By Joel Byrnes | Published: January 16, 2011

I seem to have a few sites running on WordPress now, as do 4 billion other people, but I ran into something today that should be a default setting – yet it isn’t. Â It has to do with pinging web services when you publish a new post on your blog..

And yes.. details after the jump!

Posted in Software | Tagged Wordpress | 1 Response

Kuler Photoshop Color Schemes

By Joel Byrnes | Published: December 5, 2010

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So I’ve been using Adobe’s kuler when the need arises..

If you are unfamiliar with kuler, it is Adobe’s online color swatch scheme generator thing. Â It is a great tool / resource to find new colors and help you build color themes.

@kuler, you can browse premade color palettes that were saved by others or search them by color, keyword, etc. Â You can also create your own color scheme starting from a base color, or by generating one from an image. Â It’s pretty sweet when you are at a loss for colors to use for a design project.

There is an Adobe Air desktop app for it, but it never works as far as I know. Â Today, I stumbled upon a feature of the entire CS5 suite of products that allows you to search and create color palettes directly from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, and Flash!

Details after the jump…

Posted in Software | Tagged Adobe | 2 Responses

Auto-Tune Online

By Joel Byrnes | Published: November 4, 2010

First, a web development video that contains auto-tuning:

A possibly quick idea for an autotune website that I will probably never create after the jump…

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7 FREE Programs that Everyone Should Have

By Joel Byrnes | Published: October 27, 2010

To keep others safe and happy while computing, I am keeping a list of free software that everyone should have on all of their computers.

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