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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…
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A Dark Sky Replacement – MerrySky
With Apple killing off Dark Sky, I was looking for a replacement and happened across Mary sky. It seems like a pretty darn good replacement for dark sky with an almost clone-like interface. The app is powered by the pirate weather API, so the data source is a bit different than dark skies homegrown weather…
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Adding a Hotkey Pulldown Terminal On My Mac
I’ve had issues effectively managing a large number of terminal windows on my Mac in the past and I’ve finally arrived at an effective solution. The solution does require switching to iTerm2. Once I had iTerm2 setup. Here’s how I configured things for myself. Under Preferences > Keys > Hotkey I created a new HotKey…
