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TIL the From HTTP request header. Now used for crawlers, it was originally intended for allow human users to supply their email address to the server. Innocent times.
💻 Tech category
💻 Checked the micro.blog logs, and the cert “expired” at 10:06 a.m. (EST), so the site was down for almost 2 hours. Previously.
💻 Site was down for a few minutes (that I know of) due to an expired cert error. I checked the server and my cert was not expired. I rebooted nginx and it’s working again. 🤷
💻 Exporting Mastodon Posts to My Blog
Twitter’s public implosion has redoubled my interest in blogging, and I’ve been posting more.
💻 Use Neovim as your man pager
You may know that you can open man pages in a Neovim buffer with :Man.
However, you can also configure your shell to open manual pages in a
Neovim buffer when called from the command line.
💻 Base CSS to Style a Novel
I’m working on a short novel, which got me thinking about typesetting (naturally). There’s as many ways to style a book as there are a webpage [citation needed], but there’s rules …
💻 DIY Neovim fzy search
There are plenty of fuzzy search solutions for Neovim, most notably Telescope, but sometimes you just want something fast and simple.
💻 Hand Drawn SVGs
I’ve been trying to find a good workflow for drawing vector artwork that has the spontaneity and roughness of hand drawn images.
💻 Fixing GPG Yubikey integration on macOS Big Sur
I had some trouble after upgrading GPGTools to version 2020.2 on macOS Big Sur, where it would ignore my Yubikey smart card and I couldn’t unlock my stuff.
💻 Painfully Rendering a Simple Bar Chart with Nivo
I’ve been working on a graphing project for the Astoria Digital volunteer group in collaboration with Muckrock. The app will visualize data around New York’s 50a police disciplinary record …
💻 PHP Boolean Casting Gotchas
I find PHP’s boolean casting rules strange and hard to remember. I know I’m not alone.
💻 Actually Using the General Sibling Combinator
I’ve vaguely known about CSS’s general sibling combinator for a while, but I have never found a practical use case for it, until now. And let me tell you, the results are, get ready for …
🕹️ 💻 Introducing PCG: Or, How I'm Spending the Pandemic
A lot has changed in the world since I last posted.
I have been extremely lucky during this pandemic. I am still employed, I can work from home, and I have my wife to shelter with. I do not take these …
💻 My Facebook Ad Data
Today I downloaded all the data Facebook has on me, and started poking through it. Since it’s been the focus of every privacy scandal, I went straight to the ad data. I found two items.
💻 Don't commit that file!
I wrote a small git pre-commit hook to prevent committing certain files.
There are more words to this, but if you’re impatient, you can skip right to
the goods.
💻 Machine Learning
I took a week off from work to join a deep dive study group on machine learning. It was an incredible experience and I want to tell you about what I learned.
💻 Pain and Pleasure
This is not meant to be a take down piece, and I realize I’m not providing any direct solutions. I wouldn’t be writing about Drupal if I didn’t care about it. My hope is that my …
💻 My Talk at QueensJS
I had the priviledge of giving a talk at QueensJS last week. QueensJS is a wonderful JavaScript meetup, with a real diverse and welcoming crew of folks attending. I was pretty nervous about doing the …
💻 Practical Internet Privacy
💻 Grammatical CSS Lists
The Situation ¶
You have a list of items that you need to render with comma separation, and an “and” at the end.