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All of my websites and projects run off a single 18G EC2 instance. This is cheap, but does mean I occasionally run into "No space left on device" errors when rendering the blog if I've done something stupid without realizing. This...
I have a penchant for having way too many tabs of Chrome open, and even though I keep buying more RAM I occasionally am still forced to interact with this screen, informing me that I have run out of memory. But if you hit Cmd+Shift+Esc...
I am unfortunately spending more and more of my time interacting with LLMs through terminal interfaces. While the sentient silicon churns through thousands of tokens I find myself scrolling short-form videos contemplating next steps,...
I was recently reverse-engineering parts of the OpenTable API, and wasn't sure how to refresh the Bearer token. We can get the initial one by going through a number of requests: https://mobile-api.opentable.com/oauth/consumer/token to...
How to inspect hover elements in Chrome by pressing F8 twice while DevTools is open to the Sources tab
Shrink webfont file sizes with pyftsubset to speed up loading and save bandwidth.
Create custom emoji handshakes using yellow hands like 🫱🫲🏿 and 🫱🏿🫲.
The mouse click recording feature in macOS video recording is really helpful for showing what you're doing (and something that I've used for videos for this blog previously, such in my writeup on how to set your screen time passcode...
If you have a long password, running a command with sudo can be a bit of a pain. Luckily if you have a recent Macbook with Touch ID you can use it for sudo as well. Just run the following command:
As you may have noticed by my propensity for footnotes sidenotes I love asides. Likewise there are a lot of small things I come across that either aren't meaty enough for a full post, or trend so narrowly technical that I feel hesitant...
You can delete your address from your footer as long as you keep the REWARDS piece.
I recently brought back Dog-a-Day which requires me to source a bunch of high resolution Flickr photos. In the interim five years since when I was last doing this, Flickr has started limiting download resolutions uploaded by free accounts:
Back in college I ran a service called Dog-a-Day, where I emailed subscribers a picture of a dog every day, along with a fun caption. This was initially just a Christmas present for my dad but it spiraled into a full service with some...
I bought a cheap push-button combination lock and fell down a rabbit hole when I realized it didn't matter what order you entered the code in. I ended up doing a teardown of the entire mechanism and designing some 3D models to explain...
I used to use [Mint](https://mint.intuit.com/) as my budgeting software until [it shut down in March 2024](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/business/mint-app-closing-intuit.html). As a replacement I swapped over to...