... known as David's Neighbour, a digital native based on Koh Samui, Thailand.

• [2024-05-05] Recovering a missing Keybase git repository

  The fight with Keybase continues. Today we are debugging an empty repo after checking out.

• [2024-05-03] New features in VSCode v1.89

  Three VSCode updates this month, that I find useful. VSCode keeps adding useful features every month.

• [2024-04-29] Keybase vs. Ubuntu 24.04

  Trying to install Keybase "the normal way" on Ubuntu leads to errors about missing packages. Trying then to run apt install -f to fix the issues will lead to Keybase being uninstalled again. In olde...

• [2024-04-28] Cloning All My Repos on a New Ubuntu Installation

  A script to automatically clone all my GitHub repos to a local Ubuntu system using GitHub's REST API.

• [2024-04-26] HowTo fix Google Chrome not starting after renaming the host in Ubuntu 24.04

  My recent days were marked by the biennial (as in every two years) prematurely (I'll explain that in a later post) installation of a new Ubuntu LTS (long term support) version.

• [2024-04-12] Git push.default setup

  Pushing a new branch to a repository's remote often requires two attempts by the scatterbrained developer, but there is help in push.autoSetupRemote.

• [2024-04-11] Automatically load workspace when starting VSCode

  Workspaces are a great feature in VSCode. But they have their issues. For instance starting VSCode in a folder will not automatically load the workspace file. This can be annoying if you have a worksp...

• [2024-04-11] How to delete all files ignored by Git

  The .gitignore file in a Git repository serves as a configuration file that specifies files and directories that Git should — as the name implies — ignore. When Git encounters a file or di...

• [2024-03-25] Highlighting blockquotes in GitHub Markdown format

  Discover how to use GitHub's new Markdown features to highlight notes, warnings, and more, enhancing your documentation's readability.

• [2024-03-08] Erasing ~2 decades of Twitter

  A while back (about 15 months ago), I stopped using Twitter. At first, I thought I might delete my account, but then I realized that somewhere along the lines, Twitter has begun to enforce a “yo...

I am working on a project called BooKa. It's what the Germans call "eierlegende Wollmilchsau" (egg laying wool milk pork), basically a tool or service that does everything for a certain part of a business. Right now we support small and medium businesses on Koh Samui to do what they do. Be it Hotels, Resorts, Tour companies, Cafes, Restaurants, Shops. We offer online available booking systems, reporting and management of bookings and sales reporting systems. The software is proprietary at the moment, but we expect it to be open source in a while.