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2025 Book Club Selections

In 2025, I led an IRL book club. These are the books we read in 2025: ✨ We Solve Murders by Richard Osman No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal ✨ Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger ✨ The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson Billy Summers by Stephen…

Configuring remote access in Jellyfin when using Tailscale

I'm using Tailscale on many of the devices in my home network, including the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs my Jellyfin server. In order to access Jellyfin via the IP assigned via Tailscale, I... Browse to localhost:8096/web/#/dashboard/networking ( Dashboard > Networking ) Add the IP addresses or netmask needed to cover the Jellyfin clients Save 📚 Related Links Jellyfin Troubleshooting Solved: remote…

📦 Generating SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs

📋 Setup uv venv source .venv/bin/activate uv pip install setuptools uv run --with sbom4python sbom4python -h ✨ Usage uv run --with sbom4python sbom4python -r requirements.txt \ --format json -o pastebin-bisque-pipeglow.json \ --graph plz && cat plz | dot -T png -o pastebin-bisque-pipeglow.png The sbom4python tool defaults to generating SBOMs in SPDX format. Pass --sbom cyclonedx for the CycloneDX…

Setting X-Content-Type-Options and friends in netlify.toml

[[headers]] for = "/*" [headers.values] X-Content-Type-Options = "nosniff" X-Frame-Options = "SAMEORIGIN" Docs: Custom headers

(Easily) Temporarily Disable All Browser Extensions in Google Chrome

Reduce complexity. I found a very convenient way to disable all browser extensions in Google Chrome. In chrome://flags , look for Extensions Menu Access Control : Enables a redesigned extensions menu that allows the user to control extensions site access. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, Lacros #extensions-menu-access-control

Using `emoji.emojize()` when handling errors and exceptions in Python

While building a new Python tool, I wanted some pretty emoji in the things that get printed while doing error handling with try and except in a click app. Assuming you have done import emoji , you can do that with something like this: except requests.exceptions.SSLError as e: click.echo(emoji.emojize(f":fox: SSL Error: {str(e)} Check the cert.")) except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:…