fighting the lack of good ideas
I recently ran across this helpful Digital Ocean community answer about creating a swap file at droplet creation time. So I decided to test how long using my old method (using dd) takes to run vs using fallocate. Here’s how long it takes to run fallocate on a fresh 40GB droplet: root@ubuntu:/# rm swapfile &&…
I’ve published another super-simple tool. A la whatismyip.com, but with no extra cruft (and no queer formatting of the IP address under the hood), welcome IPv4.cf to the world with me!
Just what is journalism going to look like in the future? It’s a question that’s been bouncing around my head for a while, and articulated in various pieces by Ben Thompson (in a nichification process), my friend Eric Hydrick, and others. Eric brought up the idea of supporting “special” journalism through services like Patreon. I…
As you all know, I am a huge zombie fan. And, as you probably know, I was a CIS/CS major/minor at Elon. A concept I was introduced to at both Shodor and Elon was ant colony simulations. And I realized today that many people have been introduced to the basics concepts of ant colony simulations…
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Back in November, I was really up on Pi-hole. But after several more months of running it … I am far less psyched than I had been. I’m sure part of that is having gotten better internet services at my house – so the impact of ads is less noticeable. But a major part of…
Along with becoming more active on Mastodon, Â I’ve been thinking more about concision recently. One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter’s 140. And I was thinking, “what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less /…
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Last year I posted a simple script for keeping your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates current. In conjunction with my last post sharing the “best” SSL configs you can use with Apache on CentOS, here is the current state of the cron’d renewal script I use. systemctl stop httpd.service systemctl stop postfix ~/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto -t -n –agree-tos –keep…
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