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I've just published a Visual Studio Code extension for note taking. It turns VS Code into a sweet note editor. It's called Unotes . (think  numéro uno ) I created this because I needed it. I take notes on whatever I do. School, work, books, online courses, computer work, home projects... you name it. Keeping notes in digital format is great because you can sync them between computers and access them anywhere over the web. I'd used and loved OneNote in Windows for many years, all through grad school and beyond. Then last year I switched jobs and started working exclusively in Linux. That meant I had to use the web application to maintain my OneNote notes. This frustrated me because it was ugly and slow. I explored other options with the following requirements: Free Cross-platform Open text-based format Image and basic styling support Theme-able (dark) Sync-able between devices Searchable WYSIWYG editor Visual Studio Code + Markdown seemed lik...

For Christmas I got a Raspberry Pi Zero-W  single-board computer. They cost around $10 and are amazingly tiny and use very little power. My goal was to attach this to the usb printer (HP LaserJet 1020) in my home to share it on the network without having to have a desktop computer attached to it and running all the time. This would be much cheaper than buying a new wireless enabled HP printer ($200). Also this would give me a good excuse to play with one of these little single-board computers... There were a few hurdles to get everything working but I did succeed after some googling and tinkering. It's been working like a champ so far and now I can print from all our home computers and Android phones. I mostly followed  this tutorial . Here are the steps to set this up... Download the Lite version of  Raspbian . This is a minimal Linux distro based on Debian.  Use Etcher (or something similar) to copy the Raspbian image to a micro SD disk (you don't need t...