I wanted a quick way to grab my public IP address from the command line. I found that CloudFlare’s DNS service allows this by looking up TXT records for whoami.cloudflare.

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I stumbled on this article about safe terminal escape codes. It’s a good read if you’re working with terminal escape codes and want to avoid some of the pitfalls.

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Following this post, I’ve set up SSH key signing for my Git commits.

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I found this tutorial about POSIX shell scripting. I tend to stick with Bash myself, but this is a good resource for writing portable scripts where there is no Bash.

ChatGPT, write a parody of The Raven starring my cats…

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I recently discovered Quartz, a static site generator that works great with Obsidian.

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Some notes on styling web documents for printers.

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I’ve been avoiding adding pagination to this blog forever since GitHub Pages doesn’t allow the plugin by default. Now that we can deploy to Pages with GitHub Actions, I finally got it all working. I’ve done a couple hack jobs with GitHub Actions and Jekyll, but this new workflow is pretty simple. Here’s what it looks like.

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I was browsing through old gists and found an old one with the ABCs of Unix.

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Someone on Hacker News posted Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky, a plea for web developers to make their table headings sticky.

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