Posts tagged "tech"

Separating dark mode and night shift on a Mac

On iOS, it’s possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separately from a custom schedule for dark mode. For some reason, this isn’t possible ...

Accessing Home Network Resources with a Cloudflare Tunnel

I have plans to eventually set up a VPN to access my home network, but in the meantime, I opted to set up a Cloudflare Tunnel to access certain local resources. I also just wanted to play around wi...

UNLINK vs DEL - A deep dive into how it works internally in Redis 🪢

atproto and ownership of identity

The new age of social-enabled apps atproto is very exciting to me as it’s the perfect abstraction between the identity and user data layer, and the application layer. Compare that to the fediverse ...

Blog Questions Challenge

I've seen this challenge on Herman's blog. I liked it, so I decided to do my own version, even though I'm not using the bear blog. For the same reason, I slightly adapted the original questions. Wh...

Using ExifTool to Set Dates Based on Filename

ExifTool has been a surprisingly useful piece of software in my recent quest to archive all of my family photographs. This includes scanned film from before the time of personal computers and also ...

Adding a Copy Button to Code Blocks

Copying code from code blocks, without having to manually select it all first, is very handy convenience feature. But despite having published a ton of code snippets on this website, adding copy fu...

Bye WordPress, Hello Hugo

I’ve been writing blogs since March of 1999. Yes, I’m old. When I started, my friend Ben suggested Moveable Type, and it worked well until around 2003 when they decided to switch their license from...

Critical Rsync Vulnerability Requires Immediate Patching on Linux and Unix systems

Rsync is a opensource command-line tool in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems that synchronizes files and directories. It is a popular tool for sending or receiving files, making backups, or ...

It takes a village

I typically describe my career as being the result of a lot of luck. There are so many key moments in my professional journey that just happened to go right for me while also being largely out of m...

Working differently in 2025

I have made a few resolutions going into the new year. Two of them have to do with All About Berlin. The first resolution is to work less. I am not a workaholic by any stretch of the imagination, b...

Working differently in 2025

I have made a few resolutions going into the new year. Two of them have to do with All About Berlin. The first resolution is to work less. I am not a workaholic by any stretch of the imagination, b...

ZFS Raidz Expansion Finally, Here in version 2.3.0

After years of development and testing, the ZFS raidz expansion is finally here and has been released as part of version 2.3.0. ZFS is a popular file system for Linux and FreeBSD. RAIDz is like RAI...

I #100DaysToOffload’d

Heyo, I did it! Nice. Did what exactly, you ask? Dear reader, I wrote & published 100 posts to my personal blog over a 1-year period. That’s what #100DaysToOffload is all about. It was almost a yea...

The Missing Mentoring Pillar

The Missing Mentoring Pillar The programming languages (PL) community has developed a whole host of mentoring pillars to help new research become a part of our community The Programming Languages M...

Reimplementing Unsplash Source

In response to RIP Unsplash Source, I went ahead and reimplemented source.unsplash.com via the Unsplash API using Val Town. View the val here: https://www.val.town/v/pinjasaur/unsplashSourceReimple...

!mdnio

tl;dr Use the !mdnio bang on DuckDuckGo or Kagi as a shortcut when searching MDN. I’ve been a DuckDuckGo user for a while — one of the killer features that initially drew me in were the bangs. Put ...

My Predictions for Tech in 2025: Chaos Reigns

If you are looking to have your spirit lifted, you came to the wrong place because, as I see it, the trend lines almost all point in one depressing direction.

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the...

JWCC: JSON With Comments & (Trailing) Commas

Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42360681 The HN thread above from a ~month ago is on JSON5, which extends the JSON spec. It’s a rather weird name: it’s not the fifth version of JSON, but a...