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Mozilla does provide flatback and official Flatpak for thunderbird, but they are always behind release and they usually stick for long time at old versions.

I don't want also to have to check for updates and do them manually on my linux machine. so I wrote this to do automate the process

1. Create the auto-update script: ~/.local/bin/update-thunderbird

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"\>
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key><string>com.melashri.ssid-dns</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/Users/melashri/.local/bin/ssid-dns</string>
    </array>

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Electron Apps Detector

A single-file, cross-platform script that detects Electron Apps and their versions — without external dependencies.

Works on:

• macOS (via mdfind + strings)
• Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Flatpak, AppImage)
• Windows (via PowerShell)

Usage

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Syntax Highlighting CSS Generator for Zola from Pygments Themes

Description:
Generate a combined light/dark mode syntax highlighting CSS file for Zola.
This script takes one light theme and one dark theme from Pygments and produces
a CSS file in the same format as the existing highlight.css file.

Author: Mohamed Elashri 

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# root_benchmark.sh – compile a minimal ROOT and collect build metrics

set -euo pipefail

###############  Color helpers  ###############
bold=$(tput bold)          || true
red=$(tput setaf 1)        || true
green=$(tput setaf 2)      || true
yellow=$(tput setaf 3)     || true

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⚠️ Fixing Electron App Crashes Caused by amdgcn-- Triple Errors on Linux

🧩 Problem

Electron-based applications (e.g., 1Password, VSCode, Discord, etc.) crash on Linux systems where AMD's ROCm or amdgpu-install driver stack is present. A representative error message looks like this:

Cannot find target for triple amdgcn-- Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered)
...
[ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(981)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=139

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Condor _q Cheatsheet

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1. View & Summarize Jobs

Command	What it Does	Example
condor_q	Batched summary (one line per cluster)	condor_q
condor_q -nobatch	Per‑job listing (one line per proc)	condor_q -nobatch 195

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Cron Jobs Cheat Sheet

1. Cron Time Format (Crontab Syntax)

Field	Allowed Values	Special Characters	Meaning	Example
Minute	0–59	* , - /	Minute of the hour	0 = top of the hour
Hour	0–23	* , - /	Hour of the day	5 = 5 AM
Day	1–31	* , - /	Day of the month	15 = 15th

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ROOT Cheat Sheet

1. Interactive work

Command	Description
root -h	show help for root command
root [-l]	open ROOT
root [-l] file.root	open ROOT and load a file
.?	show help in interactive ROOT

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INSPIRE HEP-PH Top Papers Analysis

This script fetches and analyzes the top cited High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (HEP-PH) papers from 2024 using the INSPIRE API. It focuses on papers with 10 or fewer authors and generates a detailed table of the most cited papers.

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• Required packages:

  pip install requests pandas tabulate