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LLM Fear
I’ve been wondering why it seems like there’s a subset of developers who are extremely concerned about LLMs and then another subset who are embracing them with abandon. It seems like the two sets of people, working in the same field, should have similar opinions. This observation from Ben Wordmuller really hit it on the…
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Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.
This is a less than 150 word book review. No ratings, just a narrative review. A fascinating book that weaves together a motorcycle adventure, observations on mechanical work, deep philosophy and struggles with mental health. The weaving is not done chapter by chapter but instead sentence by sentence. It was a delightful read that made…
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No Feed November
I’m starting to record a podcast series on cutting feed based social media from my life and living a calmer, slower, happier life. Here’s the first episode: https://idlecursor.com/episodes/no-feed-november-part-1 I mention my phone home screen in this episode. Here is what it looks like. The launcher I’m using to achieve this is olauncher.
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Dynamically Macro A Class To A Laravel Macroable Class
Laravel Macros I was recently working on a project where I wanted to make a classes functions available inside of the built in Laravel Str:: helper. Laravel Macros are the answer to this issue. However, I wanted to make adding additional methods an easy experience and needing to write and maintain a separate macro with…
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Certbot HTTP Verification Debugging Details
Ran across a fun issue with Let’s Encrypt and certbot today. The issue at hand seemed straightforward at first: we were attempting to create a new SSL certificate via Let’s Encrypt but kept hitting a wall with the http validation process. For those unfamiliar, Let’s Encrypt utilizes a simple challenge-response mechanism to verify domain ownership.…
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Quick Tip: Locate Tags in Git with a Specific Commit
Need to find which tags in your project contain a specific commit ID? I recently need to do this to find out when a specific bug fix (commit ID: abc123) was released in a project. Simply enter: Git will then list all the tags that include the bug fix, helping you identify the release times…
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Quick Tutorial: How to Manually Test an AWS CloudWatch Alarm Without Triggering It
At times, you may have set up a CloudWatch alarm that you don’t want to trigger, but you still need to ensure that the actions tied to it function correctly. This tutorial will guide you through a simple command to test your CloudWatch alarm manually without actually setting it off. Step-by-Step:
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When “rm *” doesn’t work
We’ve all deleted files in a folder using rm *. But have you ever had it not work you might have come across an error like this: What’s happening here? Well, this is a consequence of the Linux kernel’s limitation on the number of arguments that can be passed to a command via the exec…
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Initial Thoughts On Arc Browser
I’m coming from Firefox as my default browser. What I like: What I don’t like:
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Optimizing Permission Rewriting in Ansible
I was recently working on speeding up an Ansible playbook and found this task that was running slowly. This task runs the find command for all files in a specific directory and recursively executes the chmod command on them. The issue is with a directory thousands of files we end up executing thousands of chmod…
