Virgin Media's router silently drops DNS responses pointing at 127.0.0.1, breaking *.lndo.site. Fixed with DNS-over-TLS via systemd-resolved.
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A collection of interconnected thoughts, projects, and writings. This is a space where ideas grow, evolve, and connect to each other organically.
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Ubuntu 26.04 switched to uutils coreutils, whose `head -c0 <dir>` exits 1 and silently kills the launcher script bundled in many desktop snaps.
Sapling
Script to install and update Obsidian in Gnome
Projects
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
Seed
Opencode agents for the Explore - Plan - Code - Verify workflow
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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SQL query to list MySQL database tables sorted by size including data and index length.
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Sapling
Explore Discover UK is dedicated to helping people explore the UK and discover the best things to do across the country.
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Fruit
An introduction to programming asynchronous Ajax web requests using JavaScipt, PHP and MySQL.