ryansouthgate.com

A blog about technology & software development, by Ryan Southgate

Cronjob vs systemd timers - how to create a systemd timer

cronjobs have a new contender. In this post I create a new simple systemd timer and compare with cronjobs

Posted by ryansouthgate on 11 Mar 2025

Custom C# JSON Deserialisation for Object property Types

Dealing with Object property types on C# models, with System.Text.Json, is hard. But it doesn't have to be, in this post we'll enable custom deserialisation for specific properties

Posted by ryansouthgate on 21 Feb 2025

Fixing 'cups-pki-invalid' printing error in Linux Mint/Ubuntu

Removing and generating an expired SSL Certificate for cups

Posted by ryansouthgate on 1 Nov 2024

2024 - My year of the Linux desktop

Upgrading from Windows to Linux Mint and becoming more productive in the process

Posted by ryansouthgate on 18 Sep 2024

Creating Right-Click (Context Menu) actions in Linux Mint - Nemo

How to create right-click (context menu) actions in Linux Mint - Nemo

Posted by ryansouthgate on 14 Sep 2024

F# and Home Assistant helping take the bins out on time

Combining F# and Home Assistant, with native mobile notifiactions to take the bins out

Posted by ryansouthgate on 14 Feb 2024

Public Key Encryption with the JavaScript Web Crypto API

How to use Public Key Encryption on the web with JavaScript

Posted by ryansouthgate on 23 Jan 2024

Ridiculously cheap offsite backups using rclone and AWS S3 Glacier

Here's how I use rclone for offsite backups, which only costs cents

Posted by ryansouthgate on 23 Oct 2023

Reclaiming disk space for the dotnet developer

Reclaiming disk space for the dotnet developer

Posted by ryansouthgate on 26 Jul 2023

ASP.NET Core CORS Wildcard Subdomains

Leverage wildcard subdomains for CORS in ASP.NET Core

Posted by ryansouthgate on 22 Jun 2023