Bash is weird Whenever you make an input in bash, it gets split into "words" based on whitespace. Usually, this is what you want, and it lets you write commands like for x in ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Photos do du -h $x done Here, all of the filenames given are interpreted separately. If in case you want to pass the...

I set out a little over a week ago to add a service registry to Marginalia Search, primarily to reduce its dependence on docker. I would like it to be able to run on bare metal as well, which poses a problem since configuring the application manually is a bit of a headache with dozens of ports that need to be set...

If there is one thing that I have personally changed about myself over the past few years it is my stringent reduction in the use of expletives in my vernacular. You will nearly never see it in my writing or my videos, and even though there are videos of me using swears in the past (in a podcast I used to do for...

Got started on this book from a recommendation from my wife and wasn’t disappointed. Devil in the white city by Erik Larson goes into two pivotal events of the early twentieth century in Chicago. One is the creation to execution of the 1893 worlds fair and the other being the serial killings of H. H. Holmes. The two...

I finally finished watching Beef on Netflix yesterday. And wow, what a great show! But the weird thing was, that I couldn’t really pinpoint, what exactly I found great about it. Sure, from a cinematography standpoint, it’s made brilliantly. The actors were great as well, just as the music selection (especially the...

I am on a mission this year to retain more knowledge. In my twenties, I was obsessed with hoarding facts and reading as many books as possible. This was great, in my twenties. I could spout off facts that seemed impressive but were ultimately shallow. As I grow older, I want to conceptualize the knowledge I gain...

Per me, è molto complicato parlare di Baldur's Gate III. E sto pure alla seconda run!

A look into some cybersecurity myths and misinformation. Explore the best practices regarding passwords, multifactor authentication, social engineering tactics, antiviruses, and much more.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Ecclesiastes 9:4, The Bible In this Wild Wide Web we surf through, all the distractions around us can derail us from remembering the true purpose of the web: expressing what you know and learning from the...

This last autumn and winter have been especially wet, so walking from home has not often been possible because of the mud and deep puddles everywhere. In fact, I don’t think I have walked along our lanes since the autumn, though Richard has – he is a hardier soul than me! The field paths are probably very squelchy...

Episode 294 of JS Party is titled Reports of Node’s death are greatly exaggerated and features two members of the Node Technical Steering Committee: Matteo Collina and James Snell. Their perspective on the project (and software development in general) was insightful, especially some of the challenges they face....