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Heath Stewart's Blog

Heath Stewart's BlogMar 21, 2026

Cleaning up Rust made easier

Changes in WSL appear to have made shrinking a VHDX containing a WSL distro easier. These are new, simpler instructions for cleaning up rust and shrinking a distro.

lesser daemonOct 2, 2025

Fixing NPM permissions errors on WSL

Saving this one for posterity since I seem to run into something like this once every couple of months. Really gotta get a Mac for my next dev machine. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y # Since you mention that you have set your user to be root: sudo sh -c 'echo "[user]\ndefault=root" > /etc/wsl.conf' wsl.exe -l -v # Confirm your distribution name for the following command: wsl.exe --terminate Ubuntu Credit to this StackOverflow answer.

Heath Stewart's Blog

Heath Stewart's BlogMay 11, 2025

Cross-compiling x64 on Aarch64

How to support cross-compiling -sys crates for x64 (x86_64) on Ubuntu 24.04 aarch64 (arm64) in WSL2.

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceMar 30, 2025

Configuring MCP Tools in Claude Code - The Better Way

Aight! So, I’ve been using Claude Code for a bit now, and one thing that’s been bugging me is the way you’re supposed to configure MCP tools. If you follow the official approach, you’re stepping through a CLI wizard that forces you to enter...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceMar 18, 2025

Windsurf Setup for WSL

I used Windsurf for the whole day yesterday, I’m impressed! I’ve been using Cursor as part of my development workflow full time since September last year. There’s many a post on here from me on integrating other tools into my workflow for using “AI”...

Heath Stewart's Blog

Heath Stewart's BlogMar 1, 2025

Cleaning up Rust

Tips for cleaning up after Rust, which can consume a lot of disk space.

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceFeb 5, 2025

Setting Up Codename Goose in WSL

Ok, so, I’ve heard about this CLI tool that allows you to use your preferred LLM provider, Goose, from Block (Square, payment thingy) which I think is officially called codename goose, but we all know everyone is going to refer to it as Goose.

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceJan 28, 2025

Git SSH and Commit Signing Setup in WSL Ubuntu

Aight! It happened again! Mysteriously git just straight up stopped working for pulling/pushing on one of my WSL Ubuntu instances! I’ve just gone through setting up a fresh WSL Ubuntu 24.04 install and wanted to detail the process of getting Git...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceDec 28, 2024

Getting MCP Server Working with Claude Desktop in WSL

In this post, I’ll go through the process of getting a Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool up and running with the Claude desktop app using Node in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Using WSL allows me to manage my Node versions on WSL...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceSep 3, 2024

Cursor Setup for WSL

The WSL Cursor setup, debugging your setup before you even code! I initially tried Cursor around 18 months ago when I saw something from Catalin about it. At the time I couldn’t get past launching it with the command. With all the hype going...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceMar 17, 2024

WSL Web Developer Setup with Fedora 39

A couple of years ago I wrote a guide on setting up a web development environment on WSL using Fedora 35. I wanted to get an up to date version of Fedora to use in WSL so I went back to my guide and the link for the file was a 404 on the repo...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceOct 7, 2023

Updating BIOS on Motherboard

Real quick one for me! Future me that is!! I had to update the BIOS on my motherboard, now a lot of manufacturers will recommend their software which is usually hot garbage! Every time I try it I’m prompted to install virus protection and other...

Heath Stewart's Blog

Heath Stewart's BlogMay 19, 2023

Using 1Password for git SSH signatures in WSL

nove-b blogFeb 15, 2023

DockerプロジェクトをWSL上に置き、ホットリロード問題解決を試みる

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceJan 22, 2023

WSL Dev Server Not Working on v1.1.0? Try this!

If, like me, you’re on the Windows Insider Programme Dev channel and you use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for your web development then you may have noticed some weird dev server behaviour recently. Behaviour like, starting the dev server...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceMay 22, 2022

Get Debian WSL Set Up For Web Development

Quick guide to getting Debian WSL set up for web development. You can install Debian from the Windows Store and get started straight away with using it, but there’s a few things missing.

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceJan 18, 2022

Upgrade Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux from 20.04 to 22.04

In this guide I’m going to detail upgrading Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from the current version 20.04 to 22.04 this the development build of Ubuntu 22.04 which is due to be released on 2022 April 21. You can Tl;Dr and watch...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceDec 8, 2021

WSL Web Developer Setup with Fedora 35

This is an updated guide on the post I did at the start of the year for setting up a web development environment on Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This guide is intended for use to get set up with Fedora 35 on WSL. This is my...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceNov 2, 2021

Backup Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux

I’ve had to make a copy of my current Ubuntu install for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and although I have written about this before but this time there were a few gotchas I want to cover here. WSL moves pretty fast so a lot of the...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceOct 14, 2021

Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11

Now that Windows 11 has been released I decided to switch from my Windows 11 insiders build and go over to my Windows 10 partition, reset it and start over on a fresh Windows 11 machine! In the past getting set up with Windows Subsystem for Linux...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceMar 24, 2021

How to Backup Windows Subsystem for Linux distributions

I have always liked using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), I’d routinely trash installs then reinstall them from the Microsoft store and have become quite adept at setting up new instances with everything I need to get back to coding as quickly as...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceJan 6, 2021

WSL Web Developer Bootstrap with Fedora 33

I have been having a blast playing around with configuring Fedora 33 in Windows via Windows Subsystem for Linux, I didn’t know you could straight up import a Linux distro and use it. In this guide I’ll go through the complete setup needed to go...

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceJan 5, 2021

Fedora Remix for WSL GUI Apps

Fedora Remix for WSL was on sale for £2.51 so I thought I’d have a look see and add it to the rest of the other WSL distros I have installed. As I’m all jazzed about using Cypress in WSL I thought I’d give it a go on Fedora.

Scott Spence

Scott SpenceJan 5, 2021

Use Google Chrome in Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem Linux

This is a specific use case for installing Google Chrome in Ubuntu on WSL. On Ubuntu, Snap is the preferred method to install Chromium and although snap is on the WSL image you get from the Microsoft store it’s not functional. There is a solution...