If you’re tried keeping a git repo in an iCloud (or Dropbox) folder before, you know it works fine — until it doesn’t. Something inevitably happens one day while one of your devices is syncing, and your repo is corrupted, such that a bunch of your files look like they’ve been changed. A workaround I’ve been playing with is custom $GIT_DIR set via direnv. Here’s how I set it up.

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This now infamous post on Stack Overflow — You can’t parse HTML with regex — is one of my favorites. I think every dev has tried it at least three times: first time you do something simple and it Just Works™; second time you try something advanced and manage to figure out most of the edge cases so it Mostly Works™; final time is such a nightmare you wish you’d chosen to build Things Out of Wood™ instead of code.

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A while ago, I wrote a CLI script to display what my Plex server is playing using jq and the Tautulli API. Check it out if you use Plex/Tautulli — or if you want to see some moderately advanced jq in action.

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Searching for image gallery templates, I came across this one that looks light-weight and decent enough.

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Dev Shower Thought: Webmaster on a resume in the 90s looked pretty sweet; in 2022 it’s a red flag saying “I don’t really know what I’m talking about.”

I am 37 today. I’ve spent the last week or so hacking on this blog and reviewing old content since I turned 21. I thought I’d wrap up my nostalgia trip with a check in on what life is like in 2022.

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A few weeks ago I came across The Web Is Fucked and it’s really stuck with me. I miss Web 1.0.

Shelby shared lsusb yesterday, a bash script that provides lsusb on macOS for listing USB devices.

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I was poking through old WordPress backups I have and noticed a strange wp-content/85060.php file. Turns out one of my sites was hacked back in 2006 or 2007 and I had never noticed.

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Need to mount a USB drive on Linux?

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