https://blog.lixquid.com/ Posts from Lixquid's blog. en Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://blog.lixquid.com/20260929-snippet-bakinfish/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20260929-snippet-bakinfish/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A post with a fish function for easily backing up files locally with an appended date. https://blog.lixquid.com/20250618-reference-natoalphabet/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20250618-reference-natoalphabet/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT A post with a reference for the NATO phonetic alphabet, a standardised set of words for representing letters. Includes a web tool for easy speaking. https://blog.lixquid.com/20250615-pizzasizes/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20250615-pizzasizes/ Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT A post with a reference table of pizza areas by diameter, and a web tool for visualising and calculating pizza sizes. https://blog.lixquid.com/20240705-ssg-nomercy/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20240705-ssg-nomercy/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT A post in the Small Shelf Games series, covering No Mercy, a delightfully simple push-your-luck card game. https://blog.lixquid.com/20240610-snippet-histignorespaceinpwsh/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20240610-snippet-histignorespaceinpwsh/ Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT A post about a PowerShell configuration change that emulates zsh's HIST_IGNORE_SPACE. Stops commands starting with a space, like ones containing passwords, from being saved to history. https://blog.lixquid.com/20240419-ssg-crazyeights/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20240419-ssg-crazyeights/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT A post in the Small Shelf Games series, covering Crazy Eights, a classic card game that's endlessly easy to modify. Great for kids at low complexity or adults at high complexity. https://blog.lixquid.com/20240325-ssg-skull/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20240325-ssg-skull/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT A post in the Small Shelf Games series, covering Skull with generic components. A super simple bluffing game with really simple rules. https://blog.lixquid.com/20240323-snippet-gitignoreinpwsh/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20240323-snippet-gitignoreinpwsh/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT A post with a PowerShell snippet for fetching language-specific `.gitignore` templates from GitHub. https://blog.lixquid.com/20240316-reference-chmod/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20240316-reference-chmod/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT A post with a quick reference for `chmod` permission syntax, numeric bit masks, and the entity-operator-permission format. Covers special, user, group, and other permissions. https://blog.lixquid.com/20240122-rant-selfcheckouts/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20240122-rant-selfcheckouts/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A post containing a rather pointless rant about self-checkouts. https://blog.lixquid.com/20231215-food-instantnoodles/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20231215-food-instantnoodles/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT A post with a collection of mix-ins and customisations for instant noodles. https://blog.lixquid.com/20231210-lifetip-dateoldfiles/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20231210-lifetip-dateoldfiles/ Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT A post about putting dates in old file names instead of accumulating countless `_old` copies. Makes cleanup and figuring out the latest version far easier. https://blog.lixquid.com/20231016-nevertheultimatesubtype/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20231016-nevertheultimatesubtype/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT A post exploring TypeScript's `never`, the bottom type that every other type can be assigned to. Explains bottom types and where they're useful in practice. https://blog.lixquid.com/20230717-garmin-developmentstyle/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20230717-garmin-developmentstyle/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT A post covering personal experiences and opinions on writing good Monkey C code for Garmin devices. Covers style choices that sometimes contradict Garmin's own recommended conventions. https://blog.lixquid.com/20230114-ssh-tunnels/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20230114-ssh-tunnels/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT A post about SSH local and remote port forwarding for tunnelling network traffic. Perfect for reaching machines on closed local networks via a remote server. https://blog.lixquid.com/20220324-lifetip-carbluetoothradio/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20220324-lifetip-carbluetoothradio/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT A post about adding Bluetooth to an older car with a cheap cigarette-lighter FM transmitter. https://blog.lixquid.com/20220114-lifetip-keycovers/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20220114-lifetip-keycovers/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT A post about using coloured key covers to tell similar-looking keys apart at a glance. https://blog.lixquid.com/20211008-typescript-nominaltypes/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20211008-typescript-nominaltypes/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT A post exploring TypeScript's structural type system and how to emulate nominal typing within it. Covers branding and related techniques for telling structurally identical types apart. https://blog.lixquid.com/20200821-ssh-killinghungsessions/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20200821-ssh-killinghungsessions/ Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT A post about killing a hung SSH session with the client's built-in escape sequences. https://blog.lixquid.com/20200820-infra-ddnswithddclient/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20200820-infra-ddnswithddclient/ Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT A post with a tutorial for setting up Dynamic DNS using DDClient, Cloudflare, and Docker. Keeps a floating home IP address pointed at a stable domain name. https://blog.lixquid.com/20181225-git-mergingtworepos/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20181225-git-mergingtworepos/ Tue, 25 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT A post giving a step-by-step guide to merging two Git repositories into one while preserving their history, by merging while preserving a branch. https://blog.lixquid.com/20180924-git-configscopes/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20180924-git-configscopes/ Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT A post explaining Git's system, user, and repository configuration scopes. Covers how they override each other and why all options are valid in every scope. https://blog.lixquid.com/20180309-houserules-superfight/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20180309-houserules-superfight/ Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT A post detailing house rules for the party game Superfight. These tweaks make the base ruleset more flexible for awkward situations. https://blog.lixquid.com/20180308-houserules-president/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20180308-houserules-president/ Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT A post detailing the house rules for President, a luck-based card game that scales easily to large groups by adding more decks. https://blog.lixquid.com/20180307-houserules-predictionwhist/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20180307-houserules-predictionwhist/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT A post detailing the house rules for Prediction Whist, a trick-taking card game variant of 'Oh Hell'. https://blog.lixquid.com/20170803-humor-shootingyourselfinthefoot/ https://blog.lixquid.com/20170803-humor-shootingyourselfinthefoot/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT A post covering various ways of shooting yourself in the foot in programming languages.