Raspberry Pi: Renaming all file extensions in a directory

In this post I will show you how I used a single line script that I found buried within a comment to a Unix.Stackexchange answer to rename all the file extensions in a directory. The single line script To use, start a new terminal session and change to the directory that were the files reside. […]

Windows Terminal: Setting a background picture

In this post I will show you how you can add a background picture to Windows Terminal. Settings Open Settings either by the keyboard shortcut of CTRL + , or click the down arrow on the Windows Terminal tab bar. The settings, which is a JSON file will be displayed using the editor configured for […]

Angular: Adding images to a Bootstrap carousel from an array

The one sentence overview You want to display an indeterminate number of images in a Bootstrap Carousel. Setting the scene The demo app I have created has the following component The relevant part of the component is the episodeDetail object which has a property called imageUrls. This is an array of strings which are links […]

What is taking up space on my Raspberry Pi?

The ncdu command can be used to see what is taking up space on your Raspberry Pi hard drive. Using ncdu My Raspberry Pi is running Raspbian Release 10 Codename Buster and ncdu was already installed. Start a new terminal session, type ncdu and press enter. ncdu is fast. On a Raspberry Pi 3 it […]

Which RxJS operator should I use?

The RxJS documentation has a excellent feature called Operator Decision Tree which makes choosing an operator easier. Starting at the RxJS home page, select API docs and then the Operator Decision Tree. By responding to each question asked about what you are trying to achieve you will be guided to the appropriate operator. The animated […]