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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 15, 2022
> It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite a while already, but I just have little to no experience with it.
> The previous structure of this page layout was virtually the same, the foundation of it expertly defined in the article Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid by Josh Comeau. It's a technique I've used on many projects. I've even blogged about it previously in Horizontal Scrolling in a Centered Max-Width Container.
> What I'm documenting here is an extension of the full-bleed CSS Grid layout. In the last version of my site, selected elements – images, code blocks, quotes – were made wider than the page content area using negative margins. It worked well! For this next iteration, I explored applying these breakout offsets using CSS grid and named grid lines.
> Culture of simplicity eats strategy of complexity for breakfast
> Using the shiniest new technologies is rarely the cause for success, it's usually the result. Resist the urge to buy an excavator when a shovel will do. Cultivate a culture of ruthlessly fighting complexity and focusing on what your users want.
> We have a reasonable number of Linux servers, almost all of them running various versions of Ubuntu. Like pretty much everyone configuring Linux servers, we give them some swap space; the Linux kernel traditionally is much happier if it has a bit of swap space (cf), although you don't want too much. For a long time we used a separate disk partition for this (or a mirrored pair of them in a separate software RAID mirror device), although Linux distributions themselves were increasingly moving to using swap files located in the root filesystem (sometimes rather excessively large ones; the Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 installers use 4 GB even for machines with only 4 GB of RAM). We didn't have any particularly strong reasons for using a swap partition instead of a swap file; it was just what we'd started out with and what we were used to.
> If you have Windows installed on your computer and then installed a Linux distro next to that, your computer may not boot from the correct drive.
> The rsh command is one of the older commands in UNIX/Linux. It allows you to execute commands on the remote machine from the local machine. You do not have to log in or switch users in the remote system to run commands. rsh connects to the remote host and executes the specified commands.
> In this article, we will explain how to use rsh command and execute commands remotely in Linux.
> If you are sitting in front of a Linux system, you can always pop open a browser and query topics of interest on Wikipedia. On the other hand, if you’re logged on through a terminal emulator like PuTTY or you just prefer using the command line, there is another option: wikit.
> Wikit is a tool that queries Wikipedia from the command line and provides summaries of its content on a huge collection of topics. It's easy to use and allows you to quickly query and, if you want, save the rendered information in a file.
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