Using fwupd to check for and install firmware updates on Ubuntu Linux systems.
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Command-line workflow for upgrading Moodle including maintenance mode, git checkout, and database updates.
Dash to Panel's async enable() resumes after Dash to Dock has claimed overviewControls.dash, then hides it. Fixed by setting stockgs-keep-dash to true.
Projects
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Shared Eleventy 3.x base theme, installed as a versioned dependency, so several sites can share layouts, CSS and JS without copy-and-paste drift.
RSS feed for security alerts, pulled for various sources and aggregated into single feed to make it easy to see alerts for the software you care about.
The Dynamics of Cryptocurrency Price Momentum: Empirical Foundations, Market Microstructure, and Algorithmic Exploitability
Writing
Sapling
AI coding assistants boost speed, but require structured workflows. Learn how to use AI safely with atomic tasks, verification & human review.
Varnish is great at serving pages to anonymous users at high speed, but it doesn't speak HTTPS so if you want to use Varnish and provide your site over HTTPS then you need to use something to do HTTPS and proxy the traffic to Varnish. In this blog post I will detail one way to do this by using Nginx to do HTTPS termination and proxy the requests to Varnish.
Detailed plan for blog post covering AI-assisted development workflow and common failure modes.
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Using OpenSSL to generate certificate signing requests with subject alternative names for multi-domain certificates.
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Seed
Opencode agents for the Explore - Plan - Code - Verify workflow
Random Writing
I recently completed an MA in philosophy. This post details my workflow using Open Source software tools such as Atom, Pandoc, Zotero, Git and Syncthing.