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How best to punish spammers? I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. And that's when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime - robbing me of my time - which means that
How I chose parts, built, and configured my first custom home storage server.
Vim easy mode is tough to use for seasoned users!
Reflections on a decade of configuration files.
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
Why I uninstalled Plex Media Server after over a decade and migrated my movie and TV show collection to Jellyfin instead of Emby.
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
In this article I present a step-by-step walkthrough of my photography workflow. I won't go through all the details of every piece of software I mention, they have their own manuals and documentation for that, I will highlight the operations I do. My main goals are: Full ownership of all …
I got tired of attempting to get shell scripts to produce valid JSON. You’ve likely seen something like this before: echo '{
This article covers a gentle introduction to the shell nushell
I'll show you what good logging is with real-life examples. Most people don't know what to log, so they end up creating just noise....
I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer.
How to move a running process into a tmux session
Level 1: NOT BUSY My schedule is wide open. I can choose infinite paths. Zero commitments. The weekend. I sleep like a baby. Life is good, but am I living my be
Xe Iaso's personal website.
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Michael Hall and I will be your guide in Rosieland today. I want to start you off with a story about good intentions with bad outcomes. Hopefully, everybody has seen the Disney Pixar movie Monster’s Inc. by now. In the movie, the monster society runs on energy produced by children’s screams. Even…
A review of the /e/ OS Android-alternative operating system for mobile devices, as used on the Teracube 2e smartphone.
You'll often see instructions for creating and using disk images on Unix systems making use of the dd command. This is a strange program of [obscure provenance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)) that somehow, still manages to survive in the 21st century.
DevOops is a retired machine on HackTheBox. This write-up is a walk through the methodology that leads to root shell.
Production systems for ecommerce, finance, operations, and applied AI - built and operated for two decades.
