Running a background script in Linux is fairly easy. Just create a cron job and it will be executed at the given time in the background. On Windows however running background scripts in most cases a terminal window will pop-up, even if it’s just for a second while the script is running. As this is … [Read more…]
Issue: I need to get a notification if a necessary volume on my Linux device is not mounted, as this volume cannot get automatically mounted because a passphrase is required. The curl-request is dependent on the custom DNS (Pi-hole). When setting up my Intel NUC I decided that all my persistent data of the running … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I use JavaScript to click the Load More button on a YouTube channel automatically? As stated in the comments YouTube switched it’s approach to loading videos, so this script is deprecated. This issue is rather a proof-of-concept and result of my curiosity than a real useful hint. As I was watching a … [Read more…]
Issue: How can I dynamically fill variables from a textfile into a soap request and run those automatically using SoapUI? While working a client project I got the request to call a webservice method a couple of hundred times. Each iteration needed a specific id to be sent to the server. For an easy solution … [Read more…]