How-To Guides

A very miscellaneous collection of guides about how to do things. Mainly, how to get computers to do the things you want them to do.

(This section name pays homage to the long-standing tech tradition of “HOWTO” documents, which has often bloomed out into surprising topics such as Matt Might’s HOWTO: Get Tenure.)

2014 February 20	Access CASA in Python without casapy
2019 May 9	Activate a Conda Install Manually
2014 March 24	Calculate Confidence Intervals for Poisson Processes with Backgrounds
2021 December 13	Capture Video Efficiently on Linux
2014 April 29	Change Variables in an Integral
2019 September 15	Clean the wheels of an iRobot Braava jet 240 mop
2015 January 16	Correctly Cancel Python Programs, According to the Shell
2015 February 1	Debug PhantomJS Interactively
2014 August 4	Embed a Jupyter Notebook on this Blog
2015 November 15	Extend the Prompt in IPython (and jupyter console)
2015 September 22	Extract Numbered Lines from a File with sed
2017 February 20	Find out What Version of casacore is Used in a CASA Release
2019 July 23	Fix broken conda(-forge) compilers on MacOS
2018 September 3	Fix Mysteriously Dying Windows Programs
2024 March 6	Get a Standardized Browser Window
2022 April 18	Install Astropy and JupyterLab
2018 August 21	Install a rubygem Globally
2019 December 14	Make Delicious Hot Chocolate
2018 January 3	Make Hale Pele’s Mai Tai Cocktail
2018 January 3	Make a Laka’s Nectar Cocktail
2020 January 24	Make a Sazerac Cocktail
2014 June 18	Manage Flickr Guest Passes
2015 November 7	Manipulate the X Clipboard from the Command Line
2013 June 13	Match Up a Histogram and a Normal Distribution
2024 January 15	Navigate a Reveal.JS Presentation
2024 September 11	Plug in a USB-A Device on the First Try
2019 May 16	Print to the reMarkable Cloud from a Fedora computer
2013 October 24	Publish Landscape-oriented Tables With emulateapj on ArXiv
2014 August 4	Rescue the Main Disk Partition of a Fedora Machine from Filesystem Errors
2014 March 24	Sample from a Gaussian Process
2015 February 24	Screencast from Linux to Apple TV
2020 April 13	Set Up a Windows Development VM
2021 December 15	Set Up Windows Terminal for Conda Bash
2018 December 18	Stop Google Chrome from Using So Much Bandwidth at the CfA
2018 October 15	Take a 2D weighted average in Numpy
2013 February 8	Use SSH Connection Sharing
2022 December 11	Do a Yankee Swap