I regularly need to edit system config files - take /etc/sanoid/sanoid.conf as an example... I'll want to play with something but if I don't start Neovim as root then I get in trouble making edits I can't save! So suda.vim gives me :SudaWrite which ... read more →

I'm playing with my ansible playbook in a remote tmux session, and I'm no wiz so I don't know the ins and outs, but I can't scroll up to get any console log output that's not already visible on my screen. So I'm starting to end my commands with | l ... read more →

AJAX wasn't cutting it, traditional crontab in containers doesn't make much sense to me, webcron is recommended but I don't want to register with anything outside my LAN... Turns out you can just spin up an identical container with a different entry ... read more →

Logging instead of printing I am trying to adopt logger.debug instead of print but ran into a confusing thing in ipython during Advent of Code... I riddled by script with logger.debug (yes after setting logging.setLevel('DEBUG')) but in ipython none ... read more →

I wanted to break down some long lines in a Markdown table cell to make it look nicer on my blog but \n didn't do anything for me... turns out is the magic sauce Column 1 Column 2 Key Doggo ipsum many pats. Borkdrive borking doggo doing me a ... read more →

Switching to Vim opened a whole new world to me for interacting with a computer and for getting things done. Before I adopted Vim I used GUIs for everything because I thought that's how it had to be done... Notes in OneNote, code using a GUI editor, ... read more →

mkdir s{1..10} will make directories s1, s2, ... s10 in one command! read more →

/mysearch\c will match mysearch, MYSEARCH, mYSeArCh... read more →

zfs list has a flag -r, but if you use zfs driver for docker then you'll get flooded with every docker volume in the world. zfs list -r -d N will limit the dept of the print out, so zfs list -r -d 2 gives me tank, tank/encrypted, tank/encrypted/dock ... read more →

I learned you can embed gifs and stuch in things other than GH personal pages! So here I'll keep ones I like and might use later via GIPHY read more →