Happy Publishing Day
Sinking Moon Press has officially published its first book, The Kunlun Secret, which I edited, available on Amazon.com right now:
The Nothingness of Scott
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Keys to the Commit Castle
Cryptographically signing your git commits prevents another person from making commits to a repository in your name. I have a couple of examples where someone has committed code in my name (never maliciously), and it makes me uncomfortable. So, I’ve decided to sign all of my commits to git using a private/public keypair. I use a Yubikey for this, which is a piece of hardware that allows you, with…
Inappropriate IOCTL
I recently encountered a problem that I’ve had in the past, so I thought I would make a post to remind (mostly myself) how I finally solved it. This helps me avoid a groundhog day situation where I continually make the same mistake and don’t remember how I fixed it, since I didn’t document it properly.
There’s No One Like Amy
Want to know how to have a great marriage? I can’t tell you, sorry. But I can tell you about what makes my wife special to me.
Writing (Another) Avatar Service
This story probably sounds familiar: you are in the middle of implementing a new webapp, writing th code necessary to support user profiles. You realize that you want to support user avatars (because users absolutely want to be able to choose their avatar), but you don’t want to create and maintain a service just to host images of users.
Getting Frame Data from Chrome Devtools for Devtools
I’ll let you in on a little secret: Chrome’s devtools are essentially just another webapp. This means that you can check out data from the devtools in another devtools instance.
Setting Up an Existing Yubikey on Linux
Yesterday, I ran into an issue with Pop! OS that resulted in me having to reinstall my operating system. I use a Yubikey for my SSH keys and to sign git commits, so it was necessary to set this up again. DrDuh has a very comprehensive guide on how to set up Yubikeys on multiple platforms.
Pro Tip: Steal Like an Artist
I was speaking with a colleague at a different company yesterday, and she gave me some advice that I thought was really interesting. It involves stealing ideas legitimately.
Containers, Composers, and Orchestrators
Containerization can be a difficult concept to wrap one’s head around, simply because of the commonality of the different terms involved. To remedy this problem, I recently decided to solidify some of this terminology with an analogy.
How I Write a Commit Message
How I write a commit message for version control systems, and why this even matters in the first place when you’re just trying to get patches out the door.