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Thiago Perrotta
Welcome to my digital garden – a space dedicated to exploring technology and sharing what I’ve been learning. This site reflects my passion for continuous learning and open-source software, wherein I document my journey, offer insights, and dive into miscellaneous topics that reflect my interest. My goal is to maintain a corner of the Web for self-expression focused on valuable, distraction-free content. I believe in the power of the Open Web as a platform for sharing knowledge.
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When running git stash, it’s possible to pass a “stash message” to it with -m, just like how you give a “commit message” to git commit. git stash -m "first draft, approach #1 from design doc" You can view past stashes with git stash list: % git stash list stash@{0}: On master: first draft, approach #1 from design...
Thanks to help2man: help2man produces simple manual pages from the --help and --version output of other commands. […] This program is intended to provide an easy way for software authors to include a manual page in their distribution without having to maintain that document. Given a program which produces reasonably...
https://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/: Internet ads are horrible: They waste your time, and the advertising industry makes the internet a worse place. Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad filled hellhole with no real substance. If you want to support your favorite authors: send...
Paul Nijjar: “I Hope” Means ‘I Do Not Want to Get Involved’ When somebody says “I hope you are well,” what they mean is “I don’t wish you harm, and also I don’t want to get involved with your drama.” That’s how I use the phrase “I hope you..” and I expect that this is how other people use it as well. If you do want...
New script: radio: Stream internet radio stations using available media players. Available Stations: % radio --list Available stations: defcon DEF CON Radio - Music for hacking lofi Lo-fi hip hop beats trance HBR1 Trance salsa Latina Salsa kfai KFAI (Minneapolis community radio) If no station is specified, a random...
To set up Bluetooth pairing: turn the mouse on hold the switch button for 3 seconds. The light will begin blinking momentarily, which is when the mouse is ready to pair up with the computer go on bluetooth settings of your OS and connect with “MX Master 2S” Fin. See also: To use Bluetooth, change the channel on the...
Added a new just recipe to open the latest (=most recent) blog post in $EDITOR. Very handy to make quick edits! % GIT_PAGER=cat git show HEAD commit 9fac587c257da57a9abb37e4ea1d7b2502ba51d2 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Author: Thiago Perrotta <{redacted}> Date: Fri Nov 21 14:07:35 2025 -0300 just:...
Lately I’ve been running a lot of terraform apply in PROD. Goodness, this is so stressful. Even when your brain knows that the plan is safe to apply, your heart completely ignores all rationality anyway.
Given /Users/thiago.perrotta/Corp/gitops/apps/overlays/hoth. Assume I am in /Users/thiago.perrotta/Corp/gitops (a git repo). Problem statement: Copy the full path of apps/overlays/hoth. Option #1: cd apps/overlays/hoth && pwd, then copy the output. This is disruptive though. I would rather not change my working...
Use flock to manage file/directory locks from shell scripts. File Shell #1: lockfile=lock flock "$lockfile" vim foo vim will open. Shell #2: lockfile=lock flock "$lockfile" vim foo vim will block, waiting until the lock is released. Once we :q (quit) vim in the first shell, the second vim will immediately open. lock...
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