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2024

Oct 04: ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on OPNsense
Sep 13: Let’s Encrypt and Emby
May 29: Public IP lookup from CloudFlare DNS
May 23: Safe terminal escape codes [Link]
May 18: Signing Git commits in 2024
May 14: POSIX Shell Tutorial [Link]
Mar 10: ChatGPT, write a parody of The Raven starring my cats
Mar 10: Quartz for Obsidian
Mar 03: CSS for printing [Link]
Mar 03: Using Jekyll plugins with GitHub Pages in 2024
Feb 29: ABCs of Unix
Feb 27: Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky [Link]
Feb 15: The Three Virtues of a GREAT Programmer [Link]
Jan 20: textart.sh [Link]

2023

Dec 23: PagerDuty’s Incident Response docs [Link]
Dec 04: Hidden secrets of the FN key [Link]
Nov 29: Writing Documentation for your House [Link]
Nov 29: Automate updating custom Homebrew formulae with GitHub Actions
Nov 28: Reorganizing my ~/Sites directory
Nov 25: My home network
Nov 20: The Bluffer’s Guide to The Mythical Man-Month [Link]
Nov 13: Somehow, I Manage: Setting Expectations When Asking For Something [Link]
Nov 02: Tracking sqlite3 changes in git [Link]
Oct 28: Custom iOS Wallet passes [Link]
Sep 15: A deep dive on credit card debt collection [Link]
Sep 14: milliondollarhomepage.com [Link]
Aug 18: oo - open recent Obsidian files with FZF
Aug 05: RIP Bram Moolenaar [Link]
Aug 03: Thoughts on Laravel from a Rails veteran
Jul 26: Sharing git repos between two system users
Jul 19: Hello from my Q2 Pro
Jul 10: Easy SVG sparklines [Link]
Jul 08: Nginx proxy for Slack Webhooks
Jul 07: Launched - A launchd plist generator [Link]
Jul 07: CIDR subnet mask chart [Link]
Jul 05: 2FA hellscape
Jul 03: SvgPathEditor [Link]
Jun 30: My favorite shell aliases
Jun 27: macOS defaults list [Link]
Jun 27: macOS CLI Commands [Link]
Jun 23: New keycaps
Jun 20: Style your RSS feed [Link]
Jun 17: Using Direnv to set PHP versions
Jun 01: Detect in-progress git cherry-pick, merge, rebase, or revert [Link]
May 12: The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Haul
May 03: Creating a wedding photo gallery
May 02: Somehow, I Manage: 1-on-1s [Link]
Apr 29: My bin: license
Apr 07: The songs that got me into heavy metal
Mar 29: AWK technical notes [Link]
Mar 23: Somehow, I Manage: Why We Pair Program
Mar 18: gh-prq - open GitHub Pull Requests with your $EDITOR
Mar 18: My bin: headers
Mar 05: New computer
Mar 05: Universal Control on macOS
Mar 02: I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet [Link]
Feb 20: Apple Studio Display First Impressions
Jan 31: How I do my first commit for a new project
Jan 23: Star Wars in telnet or bash
Jan 23: Git commands you do not need [Link]
Jan 20: Get a random devops_borat or sadserver tweet in Obsidian
Jan 10: Get Calendar.app week number via CLI
Jan 09: My horrible Pixelmator creations

2022

Dec 29: Speed up ZSH compinit on slower systems [Link]
Nov 20: Hacker News Parody Thread [Link]
Oct 31: Josh Lasso
Oct 31: Selenized theme [Link]
Sep 12: GitHub profile tricks [Link]
Sep 09: Using Vim to convert MySQL output to CSV
Sep 07: Facebook Engineers Don’t Know Where They Keep Your Data [Link]
Sep 06: AppleScript
Sep 06: Work From Home Things: The Lunch Minute
Sep 06: HTML capture attribute [Link]
Sep 01: Setting up my PiBox
Sep 01: My Git+Synology setup
Aug 31: How to setup a git server
Aug 30: The Oregon Trail’s Origins [Link]
Aug 30: Slack’s scrollbar [Link]
Aug 30: Don’t think to write, write to think [Link]
Aug 30: The Rails Attributes API [Link]
Aug 29: 90s cursor effects [Link]
Aug 27: The seventy thousand
Aug 26: rsync compression is slow afterall
Aug 26: Linux Sticky Bandits (the sticky bit and friends)
Aug 25: Heroku killing free accounts [Link]
Aug 24: Accounting for Developers [Link]
Aug 23: Signing git commits with SSH keys
Aug 19: airport cli [Link]
Aug 19: LackRack [Link]
Aug 19: whytheluckystiff.net [Link]
Aug 19: Silencing “last login” message on macOS terminals
Aug 17: `~/.ssh/config` includes
Aug 16: Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins [Link]
Aug 12: Trying to fix my Audioengine A2+ woes
Aug 10: 2Advanced Studios gallery [Link]
Aug 09: Pi-hole/DNS configuration gotcha
Aug 05: Let’s Encrypt for Pi-hole
Jul 15: PHP’s null coalescing operator vs elvis operator [Link]
Jul 05: EU to require sideloading on iOS [Link]
Jul 04: Red Dead Redemption 2
Jul 04: Keep calm and use the runbook [Link]
Jul 01: What’s the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? [Link]
Jul 01: Spectrum, this is why we all hate you
Jun 30: OSI Layer Mnemonic [Link]
Jun 29: My favorite Bash resources
Jun 28: Getting stuck [Link]
Jun 27: How to review code links [Link]
Jun 27: The book that taught me MySQL
Jun 26: Jekyll image galleries in 2022
Jun 25: Jekyll cheatsheet [Link]
Jun 24: Hardening macOS [Link]
Jun 21: Running queries against CSV with sqlite3 [Link]
Jun 20: Amdahl’s Law
Jun 18: Getting a new game sucks today
Jun 17: macOS Screenshot Tricks [Link]
Jun 17: Pull Requests start conversations
Jun 16: Somehow, I Manage: Everyone Wants to Sell You Something
Jun 16: Did you know: wildcard SSL certificates and subdomains
Jun 16: That XOR trick [Link]
Jun 13: Five steps to take after making a mistake [Link]
Jun 11: dns.toys [Link]
Jun 10: If OpenSSL were a GUI [Link]
Jun 10: I’m a fucking webmaster [Link]
Jun 10: Zsh Plugin Standard [Link]
Jun 10: Geekboards 8-key macropad [Link]
Jun 10: Raspberry Pi Zero W Webcam Server [Link]
Jun 10: Litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite [Link]
Jun 09: SiriMote [Link]
Jun 07: Q2 “mods”
Jun 01: ffmpeg buddy [Link]
May 30: Hello from my Keychron Q4!
May 25: Making macOS behave itself [Link]
May 14: Cursor Dance Party! [Link]
May 03: Preventing burnout [Link]
Apr 21: alerter: CLI notifications on Mac OS X [Link]
Apr 19: Somehow, I Manage: 11 Promises of a Manager
Apr 12: -h, –help, help, -?, –? [Link]
Apr 11: macOS App icons [Link]
Apr 04: Those HTML Attributes You Never Use [Link]
Mar 16: gh-render-markdown extension
Mar 03: 5 things you don’t need Javascript for [Link]
Feb 23: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar [Link]
Feb 23: Somehow, I Manage: Work/Life Balance
Feb 16: Some web color tools
Feb 16: Does my GitHub Pages site need a Caching Plugin?
Feb 15: Hilarious South Park metal reference [Link]
Feb 15: Micropub Test
Feb 15: Random old designs
Feb 15: Two Weeks With Leopard
Feb 14: 2022 Universal Orlando Trip
Feb 08: My recipe site
Feb 08: Vim Tips: Writing ASCII lines quickly
Feb 08: Shell Tricks: Better Bash debug
Feb 07: Micropub
Feb 07: Updated permalinks
Feb 07: Obsidian Nirvana
Feb 02: Simple PHP/SMTP mail script
Feb 01: Pure bash markdown table generator
Jan 28: Merging git repos with git-filter-repo
Jan 27: Dump Calendar.app events to JSON
Jan 27: Shell Tricks: Pretty Printing the name of your program
Jan 27: Shell Tricks: Detecting if your script is being piped
Jan 27: A solution for git repos and iCloud?
Jan 26: You can’t parse HTML with regex [Link]
Jan 25: Fun with jq and Tautulli
Jan 24: Responsive CSS Gallery [Link]
Jan 24: Dev Shower Thought: Webmaster
Jan 24: 37
Jan 22: The Web Is Fucked [Link]
Jan 22: lsusb on macOS
Jan 21: An old WordPress hack I found

2021

Oct 02: How to Mount a USB Drive on Linux
Oct 01: How to generate a simple calendar
Sep 21: Viewing and killing MySQL queries
Sep 20: Reverting a Git Pull
Jul 26: 1Password Classic Extensions [Link]
Jul 12: Somehow, I Manage: Disagreement is a Healthy Part of Collaboration
Mar 24: What does it take to be a good programmer? [Link]
Mar 24: Using direnv to set a custom git email for work projects

2020

Oct 23: Somehow, I Manage: The Ten Slack Commandments
Jun 05: Warn when macOS adds path_helper to zprofile and profile on OS updates
Apr 10: Ruby 2.3.2 on macOS 10.15

2019

Dec 13: Vim cheatsheets
Oct 30: Useful git configs and aliases
Aug 06: Using Let’s Encrypt for local servers
Aug 06: Deluge and OpenVPN on a Raspberry Pi 4
Jul 26: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole [Link]
Feb 05: Signed commits with GitX
Feb 03: How to print help text in shell scripts

2018

Oct 11: Hello, macOS!
Mar 23: vnStat on RasPlex
Mar 09: Vim Registers
Feb 28: Generate Password LaunchBar Action

2017

Jul 20: The One Where I Got A New iMac
Jul 19: Stupid things I had to Google
Jul 19: My Vim Setup
Jul 14: Procrastination
Jul 12: Using Nginx as an SSL proxy to GitHub Pages
Mar 02: Running PHP’s CLI Server with launchd on OS X
Mar 01: Better local GitHub Pages with Pow
Feb 28: The time I ran `rm -rf /`
Feb 28: Shell Tricks: Colorized output
Feb 19: Shell Tricks: Custom ruby shebangs for speed
Feb 11: Shell Tricks: Showing help in a script

2016

Jul 09: Disabling bottles in Homebrew with custom formulae
May 03: Introducing `wp-cli-tgmpa-plugin`

2015

Dec 23: A Simpler Homebrew Formula for WP-CLI
Dec 07: Running WordPress on OS X
Dec 04: wp-cli on a shared host
Dec 03: Convert GitHub repo links to GFM in Vim
Dec 02: Viscosity CLI
Nov 24: Linux Signals
Aug 18: Copy screenshots to Dropbox Public folder on OS X
Aug 10: Running vim plugin commands from the command line
Apr 08: Bootstrapping your development setup with Homebrew
Feb 28: git pr: push current branch and open pull request
Feb 12: Customizing the Rails Console
Feb 12: Launching IRB from your RubyGem
Feb 12: Another New Layout!
Feb 10: Building GitHub Pages Locally

2013

Jul 16: Documenting with TomDoc and GitHub Pages
Jun 17: Tomy Racing Turbo [Link]
Jun 16: Why Blacksmiths are Better at Startups than You [Link]
Jun 11: Designed by Apple in California
May 31: A look inside Gears, the Final Fantasy VII game engine [Link]
May 30: RSpec and vim-dispatch
May 28: How We Hack At Site5
May 16: SSH Escape Sequences
Apr 22: A Year Without Smoking
Mar 19: Bash Arguments with $* and $@
Mar 09: More OS X Hints [Link]
Feb 23: Xcode 4.6 and ruby-build
Feb 19: The One Where I Got A New MacBook Pro
Feb 08: Running RSpec in Vim
Feb 05: Running Vim commands from stdin
Feb 05: Fun With Jekyll Posts and Vim Macros
Feb 02: All programming languages need a REPL

2012

Oct 02: NiGHTS into dreams on PSN
Sep 21: Validating Serialized Attributes in Rails
Sep 05: Restoring files from OS X Time Machine with Terminal.app
Aug 30: Credit Card Number Generator [Link]
Jul 26: Upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion
Jul 06: Font Bomb [Link]
Jun 26: Three Avatars Coming? [Link]
Jun 21: 99 Problems [Link]
May 29: Design Principles [Link]
May 25: Animate.css [Link]
May 03: iOS Text Editors Compared [Link]
Apr 26: Railsconf Links
Apr 22: Railsconf, ho!
Apr 19: Prince of Persia Open Sourced! [Link]
Apr 10: All the reasons PHP sucks [Link]
Apr 09: TIL gifs can have more than 256 colors [Link]
Apr 08: Fun with vector icons [Link]
Apr 05: A Test, from Heroku!
Apr 04: Building a single sign on solution [Link]
Apr 03: The key to Web 2.0 success is… [Link]
Apr 03: Splitting git repos with git filter-branch
Apr 02: This is how design works [Link]
Mar 29: ZSH Tab Completion for Bundler Binstubs
Mar 26: Graphical Vim Cheat Sheets [Link]
Mar 21: Splinter, the Capybara Ninja
Feb 23: Emoji cheat sheet [Link]
Feb 17: Basecamp Next is crazy fast [Link]
Feb 15: So You Want To Be A Developer [Link]
Feb 14: Patched ruby 1.9.3-p0 is sexytime
Feb 12: Removing Finder from the OS X Application Switcher [Link]
Feb 10: Vim 7.3 on a shared host
Feb 10: The Twiddle Wakka [Link]
Feb 10: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years [Link]
Feb 10: Being 5 Years Ahead [Link]
Feb 10: Allow binding ctrl-s and ctrl-q in Terminal.app
Feb 09: MakeTi makes Titanium suck less in the CLI [Link]
Feb 09: LiveReload on GPL [Link]
Feb 08: Vim anti-patterns [Link]
Feb 07: marked.vim
Feb 06: Marked
Feb 04: The Paradox of Choice [Link]
Feb 03: Why Jekyll pwns WordPress
Feb 02: CSS Font Stack [Link]
Feb 01: Typechart - typography gallery [Link]
Feb 01: Subtle Patterns [Link]
Feb 01: More CSS3 generators [Link]
Feb 01: CSS Gradient Generator [Link]
Jan 30: Rainman is a very good driver
Jan 30: Jekyll and Vim

2011

Dec 07: 2011 Retrospective
Dec 06: Six Months at Site5
Oct 31: On Perfection
Oct 04: Modern Ruby Development [Link]
Sep 01: Pow and Apache, kissing in a tree [Link]
Aug 31: The Million Dollar Question [Link]
Jul 25: vim stripper
Jun 16: Snuggie: a ruby gem for the Softaculous API
May 27: FannyPack: Ruby bindings for the Fantastico API
May 11: iDium mod for Adium
May 01: HP All In One Printing with Snow Leopard [Link]
Apr 27: Top 10 Myths about Introverts [Link]
Apr 22: Theming Liberty Sports Group with WordPress
Apr 21: MiniDB, a cute little wrapper for PHP’s PDO
Apr 04: Jekyll TextMate Bundle
Apr 02: Two Weeks With Leopard
Mar 31: Fireworks Icons using alpha transparency [Link]
Mar 30: A good read about NDAs [Link]
Mar 04: WHMCS API Bindings
Feb 27: Wage intergalactic war on your Titanium Mobile apps with TiFighter

2010

Nov 16: Setting up a Ruby production environment on a DotBlock VPS
Sep 01: Hosting Private Gems
Aug 05: Rake tasks to build Titanium Mobile Apps
Jul 25: Capistrano: Send Jabber alerts on deploy
Jul 25: A few Rails Plugins
Jul 23: API authentication in Sinatra with Clearance or Authlogic
Jul 14: Writing an API with Clearance
Jul 05: Jekyll Pagination Gotcha
Jul 05: `git browse` alias
Jun 14: Managing TextMate bundles with git submodules
May 11: Deploy with git
Apr 15: ActiveRecord Migrations - integer limit gotcha
Mar 14: CodeIgniter Database Library Extraction
Mar 13: Formatting MySQL Queries For Asterisk
Mar 04: gem install without sudo
Mar 01: Fetching Emails with Redmine
Mar 01: Forcing SSL with Apache
Feb 28: jQuery Autocomplete for Jekyll
Feb 28: Oh Hai, Jekyll

2009

Feb 11: PHP Script To Delete All WordPress Tables

2008

Jul 26: Asterisk Manager Commands
Jun 29: I (still) hate IE.
Jun 10: OS X: Fixing the Terminal
Jun 09: OS X - A Month Later
May 03: OS X First Impressions
May 02: Hurray Mac mini
Apr 13: jQuery, nothin’ but love for ya
Apr 02: FTBS… I’m getting a Mac
Mar 12: Movierack (again)
Mar 04: Asterisk on Ubuntu Server
Feb 17: Random Date Helpers
Feb 12: Stuff I need to do
Feb 05: Kate Project Manager Plugin on Kubuntu
Jan 02: Oh, how I love you Kate…

2007

Dec 30: Oh yeah…
Dec 30: New Development(s)
Dec 26: Merry Christmas!
Dec 26: Das Keyboard
Dec 10: Recently.
Oct 06: AIM Web Presence API
Oct 04: voipninja.net
Sep 29: Ogle that <BODY>…
Jul 05: Code Folding in Vim
Jul 03: Calling Dell Support
Jul 02: tar over ssh
Jul 01: Rock the Bells 2007 at Randall’s Island
Jun 23: Vim 7 on a Shared Host
Jun 05: I love/hate KDE
May 28: Linux finally sounds good
May 26: Good times with rar
May 21: ITT Really Sucks
May 09: Pidgin/Gaim Contacts
May 06: New Motherboard
May 06: Linux - unzip
May 01: Fireworks CS3
Apr 27: Mozilla Thunderbird 2 on Ubuntu
Apr 10: Password Protect Directory (Manually)
Mar 04: Twilight Princess (Part 4)
Mar 01: Recent Developments
Feb 19: Twilight Princess (Part 3)
Feb 18: Twilight Princess (Part 2)
Feb 18: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Jan 27: Compiz on Ubuntu Edgy
Jan 08: Trixbox
Jan 01: Happy New Year!

2006

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