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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Need to generate a simple calendar for a specific month or year? The cal command does just that.

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MySQL running slow and want to see which queries are running? If you can get a mysql> prompt, try SHOW PROCESSLIST or SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST.

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