Just discovered dns.toys, a little DNS hack that lets you do stuff like dig newyork.weather @dns.toys to get back different types of data. It would be fun to do stuff like this as an employer searching for network engineers 😀

Yuuup, lol.

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Back in 1993, you weren’t a designer, developer, copywriter or in devops. You were a fucking webmaster, and your name was at the bottom of every page.

This Zsh Plugin Standard looks pretty neat. I have a pretty manual Zsh setup, but there are some neat tidbits about Zsh’s inner workings.

Drop really wants my money… this Geekboards 8-key macropad looks pretty sweet. The only thing stopping me from buying it right now is not having enough USB ports.

I have an old Raspberry Pi Zero W with their camera that hasn’t been used. I used this guide to get it setup. The performance is hot garbage on the Zero, but a fun mini project.

I like to use the same DB in dev/test/production, so I rarely use SQLite — but Litestream looks pretty damn cool.

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I have been using an old headless Mac mini to play music and was wondering if I could use a spare AppleTV remote to control the volume. I found SiriMote which does exactly that.

I replaced the stock switches and plate in my Keychron Q2.

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I saw ffmpeg buddy on Hacker News today. Maybe I’ll remember it next time I need to use ffmpeg?