Dusko Pijetlovic

My personal notes where I store things I find interesting or might need in the future.

Links - Dec 14, 2025

14 Dec 2025 »

Productivity (@productivity, @lifemanagement, @selfmanagement)

Self Authoring - What is Self Authoring?

The Self-Authoring Suite is a series of online writing programs that collectively help you explore your past, present and future.

One Day You’ll Find Yourself - Select advice from your uncle in the big city - W.S. Cole Press

Keeping Track of My Life in a Spreadsheet

notyet: a text-based recursive task tracker

revisit, a TODO list for the future

The Right Now List

How to Get Things Done When You Have Trouble Getting Things Done

How to Do Things

naming things – naming-slides.pdf

Gif - A little shell script to put in your PATH if you forget the ffmpeg options to turn a video into an animated GIF.

50 Things I Know

Backup/Rsync (@rsync, @backup, @tar, @ssh, @networking)

rdumpfs: an rsync-based dump file system backup tool

Automatic Backups with rsync

Describes a simple method to build and operate a server that maintains copies of specified client file trees, using the efficient rsync tool to capture changes, secure shell (ssh) so that network connections need not be trusted, and keychain to allow ssh keys to be used in unattended operation.

Full Hard Drive Backup with Tar - How To Do A Full Backup Using The tar Command

rsync: Series Overview (2022)

For many years, I was only a casual user of rsync and used it mostly for one-off file transfers. Over time, I found rsync useful in more and more cases, and would recommend every computer user put this great tool into their toolbox!

I’m publishing a series of blog posts about rsync:

  • rsync, article 1: Scenarios To motivate why it makes sense to look at rsync, I present three scenarios for which I have come to appreciate rsync:
    • DokuWiki transfers,
    • Software deployment, and
    • Backups
  • rsync, article 2: Surroundings Now that we know what to use rsync for, how can we best integrate rsync into monitoring and alerting, and on which operating systems does it work?

  • rsync, article 3: How does rsync work? With rsync up and running, it’s time to take a peek under the hood of rsync to better understand how it works.

  • rsync, article 4: My own rsync implementation (To be published.)

Pushing & Pulling Files Around Using tar, ssh, scp, & rsync

Web Browser (@webbrowser)

Simple start page written in HTML/SCSS

Blog (@blog)

Links - Dave Winer’s blog

Kawamoto Takayuki - Image/graph: Skills of development

Simple (@simple, @freebsd)

How to Upgrade FreeBSD to a Newer Version or Release

A Flawless i3wm experience on a HiDPI/Retina display

IT (@it, @computing, @book, @pdf)

DTPO (Desktop Theory Publishing Operator) - TT (Trade Theory)

NSQF LEVEL 3 - Trade Theory - SECTOR: IT & ITES NIMI - National Instructional Media Institute, Chennai (As per revised syllabus July 2022 - 1200 of hrs)

X11 (@x11, @xorg)

Fonts and DPI