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The Pentaverate

Mike Myers does that thing where he plays multiple roles in the same movie. What if a secret society of five men has been working to influence world events for the greater good since the Black Plague of 1347? As this new series begins, one unlikely Canadian journalist finds himself embroiled in a mission to uncover the truth and just possibly save the world himself.

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Hiding UpdraftPlus nagging screens after your subscription ran out

Nagscreens. You know them. Very annoying. Long story short: I recently stopped updating my subscription to a paid WordPress plugin and it started using nag screens to guilt me into renewing the subscription again. In this specific case we have the UpdraftPlus plugin that I really suggest everyone to use, but it did not really add new features or did anything else to make me feel like having a yearly subscription for the simple backup plugin would be something I want to do.

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Create a Branch From Within an Issue on Github

You can now create a branch directly from an issue to begin development work that’s correlated to that issue. Branches connected to an issue are shown under the “Development” section, which has replaced “Linked pull requests”, in the sidebar of an issue.

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Ubuntu, EFI and Acer

A while ago I found myself in front of my little baby-notebooks screen telling me in no uncertain terms, that “No Bootable Device (was) found”. Hmm. Somehow I remembered that. I also remembered that it’s just a little renaming routine that would solve this annoying issue.

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Hugo Shortcode: Taglist

I needed a Hugo shortcode to show a list of posts that belonged to a certain</a

tag, which is quite easy. Add the following to layouts/shortcodes/taglist.html or whatever name you like to use for the shortcode.