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Making a Personal Reading List
I started reading a few books and wanted a way to keep track of those I've read reading and want to read
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Review MageGee MK-Star Mechanical Keyboard
I've been using a new mechanical keyboard for about a week now and here are some first impressions
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Resetting TPM for an Encrypted Boot Drive
After updating my bios and firmware I started having some issues
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Local Archiving - Backing up the Cloud
With the ever changing cloud market local archives might be the way forward
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Troubleshooting Eleventy Long Build Time
I notice my build times were getting longer but no real changes were made
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How I Fixed My Blogroll
After troubleshooting eleventy my blog roll was the cause of the long build times
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Confirming public GPG fingerprints from Git platforms
View fingerprints from public git hosting services without downloading the key first
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Adding GPG to Codeberg From Windows
How to successfully add your gpg key pair to Codeberg using Windows
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100 Pics - Day 4
A single link of the fence draws your eye to the focus while looking down the fence
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Changing Your LUKS Full Disk Encryption Password
Changing your LUKS full disk encryption password should be a normal practice as well
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How to tag AWS EBS volumes on Linux EC2 Servers
Tagging your AWS resources is a good management practice, and EBS volumes are no different.
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Try to Catch PowerShell Error Handling
A guide to handling errors within PowerShell and the best approach
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When Texting destroyed communication
Communication standards have changed over time, and what should we do about it.
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Checking for Environment Variables in a Node.js project
Run sanity checks for required environment variables in your Node.js project
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Importing minimum PowerShell module versions
How to import PowerShell modules and specifying a minimum version
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Conditioning the Shell
Quick glance at how to properly use conditional statements in shell scripting.
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Showing Omnivore links as Bookmarks
Saving links to Omnivore and using labels to display those as bookmarks on my website
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Finding the specific day of the month with PowerShell
Advanced usage of PowerShell's Get-Date function for finding dates
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Adding Reply by Email
The effects of adding a reply by email have been an interesting and neat change.
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Updating Codeberg Pages Static Sites
While the Codeberg CI is still in beta, I found another way to publish my static files for hosting
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Mobile writing, part 2
After a first attempt at mobile blogging, I found a process that works better for my work flow.
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Getting into Podcasts
This year I've listened to more podcasts than before, and the end of year review
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Future proofing scripts
Writing for a problem now, but in a way to easily solve the problem for the future.
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The state of Linux
The other day I was doing some normal tasks on my Linux laptop and saw why new users think Linux is hard.
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Making Notepad with HTML
A quick tip of some of the fun things you can do with HTML and your browser
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Updating Docker Containers
After breaking Docker a few times, I think I found the update process that works for most every container
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Changing Git config URL
How to change you git url to change your connection method to the remote source for a local repository
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Advent of Code - Day 1
This year I stumbled upon this month long challenge of coding. Here is what I have been able to do.
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Reducing the noise
Over the last few months I’ve noticed more how many notifications, pop-ups, and other things that take my focus away from what I’m working on.
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Write fast, deploy, update
Working fast has its benefits, and sometimes you just have to get started then you can update your process
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Migrating 2FA apps
Recently I migrated 2FA apps and introduced my first YubiKey to the authentication process.
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Hardware and Tech I Use
It's about time I write down all the hardware, software, and selfhost I use regularly.
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Do you follow RSS?
Lately following RSS not only blogs, but also from other sources has been helpful
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Download latest file from a S3 Bucket
Using the AWS S3 CLI to download the latest file from a S3 bucket
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Scheduling Automatic Builds with Static Site Generators
Having a static site is great, but there could be times where you need to build your site on a schedule.
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Boto3 cross regions for AWS Lambda Functions
Using Python and boto3 for AWS management across regions
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Adding some flare to RSS
RSS is still a great way to subscribe to content, so why not add some style to it?
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CloudCannon + Eleventy
Getting CloudCannon setup with your Eleventy project is easier than you think
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The Good Side of Analytics - Umami & Vercel
The term analytics has gotten a bad name recently, but not all of it is bad.
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Mapping the internet
How to map out the IP trace of a domain with PowerShell and IP Geo Location services
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Finding your Windows Install Date
Did you ever need to find when you installed your operating system? Check out the many ways to check your system.
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Powershell GUI with WPF
Sample way to make a GUI with Powershell and Visual Studio for Windows WPF applications
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Ubuntu's change with Python support
Discussing Python package manager PIP and recent changes Ubuntu has taken
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Bookmarks in PowerShell
Setting bookmark locations within the PowerShell console and quickly move into them
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Console Speech API and Beeps
How to make your computer talk with you using the .NET Speech assembly.
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How I Missed Gaming
I've gotten back into a few video games and I have missed video games and wanted to write about it
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Using Cloudflare Workers to Get Visitor Information
How to setup a Cloudflare worker to get certain information about the users connection
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Select-Object with PowerShell
A quick glance at a small over-looked tool PowerShell has available to us
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Command Line vs GUI Windows programs
A quick review of some command line apps versus a windowed applications
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Plop in Automation
How I use npm to automate the inner workings of my website and within other projects
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Extracting Files with Progress
Working with zip files in Python to show a progress bar while it is doing the extraction.
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Port Checking in Python
Using Python and Sockets to check for port connections on local and remotes hosts
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Creating a static site using Python and Flask
Using Flask as a static site generator for a simple website
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Nextcloud Docker Compose
I did things the hard way, and how I saved my Nextcloud data and began using docker
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Adding a basic search to a static site
A simple solution to having a search feature on a static website
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Getting started with docker and Luanti (Minetest)
Setting up the open source Minecraft alternative, Luanti (Minetest), with docker.
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GitHub profile with actions
GitHub has a few hidden features for a user profile repository and how to add some GitHub Actions to them
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Quick tips on Linux aliases
Working in the terminal there are great commands you can use, but what about the long ones or frequently used commands; how can you save those for repetitive tasks?
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How to start coding
In todays era knowing some form of programming logic can take you to great places. But where to start, or how to start?
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Securing Jekyll with SSL locally
Jekyll is a great static site generator for many reasons, but lets encrypt that traffic!
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Netlify hosting and redirects
Did you know that Netlify allows for you to have a configuration file to tell it how to deploy your project?
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Working with Tags in Jekyll
Jekyll has some powerful uses now with categories, tags, post, pages. I found a unique way to create a page just for one post."
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How to check for Jellyfin updates
As with many software there are updates to them. Jellyfin seems to not have a great way to check for updates and install automatically. However, you can use the built-in API to help with that."
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How to get the Process a Port is Bound to
Have you ever needed to query a machine for a port but not sure what process is using that port? Here is a simple way to find that information out.
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File Dialog With PowerShell
A simple way to show how to use FileDialog class with .NET in PowerShell
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Wakey
Wakey is a Python program to help keep a computer screen active by pressing a virtual key on a timer.
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Python: Alphabet Game
This is a console based game I made to help children learn their alphabet and typing.
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You got admin?
How do you tell if you are running a script as an administrator? You can check that before continuing.
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Viewing Wifi Passwords
Do you have friends coming over and you forgot you wifi password? You can get that from the system