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Cleaning up Rust made easier

Changes in WSL appear to have made shrinking a VHDX containing a WSL distro easier. These are new, simpler instructions for cleaning up rust and shrinking a distro.

Mar 21, 2026
Extract text from image

Extract text from image

A great way to extract text from image - OpenCode Kimi K2.5


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Ann Learning
ann-learning.pckt.blog
Feb 15, 2026

Lifestyles of the Burntout and Struggling

Feeling stressed and tired all the time due to the struggles of being a full time content creator, social media manager, photo and video editor, etc etc etc? Check out our top tips on how to combat burnout as an online content creator!

Feb 2, 2026

Tips en Hulpmiddelen om Nederlands te Leren

Vandaag wil ik een paar tips en hulpmiddelen met jullie delen die mij hebben geholpen bij het leren van Nederlands. Ik heb de afgelopen jaren hard gewerkt aan mijn Nederlands, en ik heb al een tijdje geleden mijn B2-diploma gehaald. Dus ik snap dat het niet altijd makkelijk is, en ik hoop dat dit artikel nuttig kan zijn.


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Henrique Dias
hacdias.com
Aug 7, 2025

TiddlyWiki Legibility Tip: font-size

Enhancing your TiddlyWiki legibility

Jul 22, 2025

Cross-compiling x64 on Aarch64

How to support cross-compiling -sys crates for x64 (x86_64) on Ubuntu 24.04 aarch64 (arm64) in WSL2.

May 10, 2025

Cleaning up Rust

Tips for cleaning up after Rust, which can consume a lot of disk space.

Mar 1, 2025

No Space Left on Device

I think that most of us that deal with Docker have, at some point, being confronted with the message "no space left on device". Well, that is what happened to me this morning: I woke up, looked at my phone, and had three alerts since 2am that there was no space left on device. Miniflux was down because PostgreSQL goes automatically into recovery mode, but other that than, everything was still up and running.


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Henrique Dias
hacdias.com
Jan 10, 2024

Table formatting in GitHub CLI 2.0

Use table formatting functions in template to get the same great table output as with built-in GitHub CLI commands.

Aug 24, 2021

Change to Custom Directory Alias With Completions in Zsh

For quite some time, I've had a helper function on my Zsh config to quickly be able to cd to specific directories.


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Henrique Dias
hacdias.com
May 30, 2021

Add aliases to GitHub CLI from stdin

Add multiline aliases or aliases with mixed quotes easily with gh version 1.10.

May 19, 2021

gh user

How to define a GitHub CLI alias to query users who can be assigned issues within the current repository.

Apr 21, 2021

Configure Multiple Clocks

Apr 16, 2021

The First Day at Your Brand New Job

You got a job! And today’s the first day, what are you going to do? Let’s make a party and make everyone dance! What? No… wait! You’re nervous, you don’t have to be. Let’s talk.


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Henrique Dias
hacdias.com
Sep 11, 2015