I think I’ve tried pretty much all of them. After the Google Reader-pocalypse, one of the primary requirements was that I could host it myself. Bonus points go to apps that have configurable keyboard navigation (“j” to open the next item must be distinct from “space” to just scroll down in the browser), as well
While trying to move an older code base to a newer system and thus a newer version of PHP (5.3 -> 5.5), I knew that some of the code would need to be changed to avoid using some removed features. Specifically, I mean call-time pass by references. For those who don’t know, this is kind
This command line interface for administering WordPress is called wp-cli. It’s pretty great. I wrote a script to run from cron for updating a bunch of different WP installs in the same directory. [crayon-64cebc1b43903768828653/]
I noticed that I was getting emails from LFD (part of the ConfigServer Firewall package) about failing to find some added check line it was sending to syslog. The syslog message looks like this: lfd[%d]: *SYSLOG CHECK* Failed to detect check line [%s] sent to SYSLOG Of course I’ve replaced the pid with %d and
I was enjoying trying out APF on my Raspberry Pi, but I noticed that it wasn’t blocking repeat attackers the way I wanted it to. fail2ban was working the way it was supposed to work, but it only blocks temporarily, and I never figured out why the gamin back-end to continuously monitor log files didn’t
I’ve written about Locamatic before, and while it’s good at what it does, there are some definite drawbacks. For one, the most recent version is alpha quality and stated for use on Mountain Lion since prior versions won’t work anymore on a newer system. But as of this writing, Mountain Lion was two major releases
Seil is a very cool utility for key re-mapping / enabling international keys on a Mac. I wanted to re-map the mostly useless Caps Lock key to Esc, which I use constantly in vi. If you’re a regular vi user, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Now I just have to develop the muscle
The Debian / Ubuntu package for Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) seems a bit unmaintained. By default it won’t run without some initial tweaking. Note that they probably want everyone to just download and run the installer from their site nowadays, but that’s not how I roll (usually). [crayon-64cebc1b43ea6174814080/] In functions.apf, change the line [crayon-64cebc1b43eb6864665496/] to
APF is wonderful for a good-enough firewall solution for a lot of people. But what if you also want the power of another great tool, fail2ban? The problem is, fail2ban wants to make changes directly to iptables, which APF is maintaining. Rules that fail2ban writes will be overwritten by APF. I found the solution is
…from two lists with some overlap. Spent some time working in Python on this problem. Afterwards, I realized it’s a shell one-liner. comm -23 <(sort f_most) <(sort f_some) | sort -n > f_uniq_to_1 I re-sort the output numerically since comm assumes its input is sorted lexicographically, and I happen to be comparing lists of numbers.
This. Here’s the kicker: …but perhaps the most fundamental is a simple misconception, one that persists in the work of the FCC but also of proponents and opponents of network neutrality. It is the false distinction between what they call “edge providers” (YouTube) and “end users” (people who watch videos on YouTube). I really wish
I had some directories named in the format of “Jul 18, 2012”. Thanks, iPhoto export, but no thanks. [crayon-64cebc1b447fe630569582/] Note: gdate is GNU date after doing homebrew install coreutils.
I just ran into an interesting situation with sort -u. I had generated a couple files with md5sum and they had a lot of equal lines in them. So I thought I would create a merged version.
It only took three years for the frustration to build up sufficiently. :-) Finally I went a little deeper to try to solve the mystery of the 30 second hang time before requests to my Linux guest VM would return. I love doing testing on a Linux guest VM via VirtualBox while working on my
I think Google Now on my Android is pretty cool. I especially like the cards that show how traffic looks for an expected commute. One thing about it that bothers me a lot however, is that it insists that it needs either “high accuracy” or “battery saving” location mode enabled. High Accuracy mode uses GPS,
