The Sorry Scheme of Things Entire

Dissatisfaction with the state of the art.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Screw you too, Github

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ERROR: We're doing an SSH key audit.  Reason: legacy key automatically unverified I could  generate a new key ... or I could just s...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

brittleR

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Apparently the current crop of R developers was never told the standard policy of never break backwards compatibility on a minor version inc...
Friday, August 5, 2016

realurl

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The inability of browsers to deal with  shortened URLs  led to the writing of a quick one-liner for verifying the final destination of a URL...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Big-M Notation

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Today's  node.js chaos  seemed like it was only a simple lesson in Operations 101 (hint: always host the code for your application and t...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

firefox profiles for ad-hoc privilege separation

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Just a quick write-up, since few people seem to actually be doing this. Firefox supports profiles: each profile is a distinct configuratio...
Monday, March 7, 2016

RIP inittab

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Your getty configs are all in /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service now. [Service] # the VT is cleared by TTYVTDisallocate ExecStart=-/sbin...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

xdg-open arcanery

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In the midst of playing with tycat and terminology on a virtual console *, it became apparent that xdg-open wasn't doing its job in r...
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