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Programming/developer related stuff I’ve written about.

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: 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]

2023

Dec 23: PagerDuty’s Incident Response docs [Link]
Dec 04: Hidden secrets of the FN key [Link]
Nov 29: Automate updating custom Homebrew formulae with GitHub Actions
Nov 28: Reorganizing my ~/Sites directory
Nov 20: The Bluffer’s Guide to The Mythical Man-Month [Link]
Nov 02: Tracking sqlite3 changes in git [Link]
Oct 28: Custom iOS Wallet passes [Link]
Aug 18: oo - open recent Obsidian files with FZF
Aug 03: Thoughts on Laravel from a Rails veteran
Jul 26: Sharing git repos between two system users
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 03: SvgPathEditor [Link]
Jun 30: My favorite shell aliases
Jun 27: macOS defaults list [Link]
Jun 27: macOS CLI Commands [Link]
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 03: Creating a wedding photo gallery
Apr 29: My bin: license
Mar 29: AWK technical notes [Link]
Mar 18: gh-prq - open GitHub Pull Requests with your $EDITOR
Mar 18: My bin: headers
Mar 02: I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet [Link]
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 10: Get Calendar.app week number via CLI

2022

Dec 29: Speed up ZSH compinit on slower systems [Link]
Nov 20: Hacker News Parody Thread [Link]
Oct 31: Selenized theme [Link]
Sep 12: GitHub profile tricks [Link]
Sep 09: Using Vim to convert MySQL output to CSV
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: Slack’s scrollbar [Link]
Aug 30: The Rails Attributes API [Link]
Aug 29: 90s cursor effects [Link]
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: Silencing “last login” message on macOS terminals
Aug 17: `~/.ssh/config` includes
Aug 09: Pi-hole/DNS configuration gotcha
Aug 05: Let’s Encrypt for Pi-hole
Jun 29: My favorite Bash resources
Jun 26: Jekyll image galleries in 2022
Jun 20: Amdahl’s Law
Jun 17: Pull Requests start conversations
Jun 16: Did you know: wildcard SSL certificates and subdomains
Mar 16: gh-render-markdown extension
Feb 16: Some web color tools
Feb 08: My recipe site
Feb 08: Vim Tips: Writing ASCII lines quickly
Feb 08: Shell Tricks: Better Bash debug
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 25: Fun with jq and Tautulli
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
Mar 24: Using direnv to set a custom git email for work projects

2020

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
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 19: My Vim Setup
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: 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 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 10: Building GitHub Pages Locally

2013

Jul 16: Documenting with TomDoc and GitHub Pages
May 30: RSpec and vim-dispatch
May 28: How We Hack At Site5
May 16: SSH Escape Sequences
Mar 19: Bash Arguments with $* and $@
Feb 23: Xcode 4.6 and ruby-build
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

Sep 21: Validating Serialized Attributes in Rails
Sep 05: Restoring files from OS X Time Machine with Terminal.app
Jul 26: Upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion
Apr 26: Railsconf Links
Apr 03: Splitting git repos with git filter-branch
Mar 29: ZSH Tab Completion for Bundler Binstubs
Mar 21: Splinter, the Capybara Ninja
Feb 14: Patched ruby 1.9.3-p0 is sexytime
Feb 10: Vim 7.3 on a shared host
Feb 10: Allow binding ctrl-s and ctrl-q in Terminal.app
Feb 07: marked.vim
Feb 03: Why Jekyll pwns WordPress
Jan 30: Rainman is a very good driver
Jan 30: Jekyll and Vim

2011

Jul 25: vim stripper
Jun 16: Snuggie: a ruby gem for the Softaculous API
May 27: FannyPack: Ruby bindings for the Fantastico API
Apr 22: Theming Liberty Sports Group with WordPress
Apr 21: MiniDB, a cute little wrapper for PHP’s PDO
Apr 04: Jekyll TextMate Bundle
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

2009

Feb 11: PHP Script To Delete All WordPress Tables

2008

Jul 26: Asterisk Manager Commands
Jun 10: OS X: Fixing the Terminal
Apr 13: jQuery, nothin’ but love for ya
Mar 04: Asterisk on Ubuntu Server
Feb 17: Random Date Helpers
Feb 05: Kate Project Manager Plugin on Kubuntu

2007

Dec 30: New Development(s)
Oct 06: AIM Web Presence API
Jul 05: Code Folding in Vim
Jul 02: tar over ssh
Jun 23: Vim 7 on a Shared Host
May 26: Good times with rar
May 06: Linux - unzip
Apr 10: Password Protect Directory (Manually)