Wed Apr 23
(Note: Who was I kidding? Trying to do five of these per day was a big hill to climb and led to my not doing it at all. I’m going...
The bottom search in Callsheet and "search drawer" in Ketchup, both built or designed by Ben, have been inspirational in my own app design. So much easier to use. It's surprising to me that despite Maps and Safari having their search (or equivalent) bars at the bottom, it's quite difficult to reproduce that in...
Boosting productivity with Git aliases: what they are, their benefits over shell aliases, setup, and examples.
I never thought I’d have 1,000 subscribers, never mind nearly 70,000. I’ve been extremely lucky in my YouTube journey, and I’m forever grateful for those who helped me get where I am today. It’s not like I’m Mr. Beast or anything. I’m not famous. I don’t get noticed on the street as I limp along. Nobody is asking...
Easter break didn't go as planned. I wanted to spend time capturing airplanes and generally being outside. Instead, I hurt my back on Good Friday, which effectively put the kibosh on my plans. Despite the pain, I did my best to make the most of the free time.
A while back I wrote about doing work I couldn’t explain while remaining confident I was getting intellectually rigorous and effective results. It’s been on my mind ever since. I don’t have an exhaustive explanation, but I think I have a general explanation for what’s going on while I work. You can slice themes of...
The storage drives connected to my servers are LUKS-encrypted which means every time the server restarts I need to manually decrypt and then mount them. This hasn't been much of an issue since I hardly ever had to reboot my servers, but lately I've been experimenting with virtualization and have had to deal with a...
Short list so far but hopefully as I get more and more into browsing the web, I will find more links I think others should take a look at. Blogs Interregnum A generally leftist publication which hosts articles by a variety of authors. Recently discovered them through the article on Passivity Propaganda. Thoughts on...
Learn how to recover data from a failing NVMe drive using ddrescue on Linux. This guide covers step-by-step backup instructions, handling read errors, and restoring your files safely.