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"https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/speed-paint-videos-for-github-project-installations/", "published_at": "2023-12-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8cd-73dc-a9ab-3c0439fdbe53", "title": "Getting `fzf` to print the preview pane", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/getting-fzf-to-print-the-preview-pane/", "published_at": "2023-12-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8cd-73dc-a9ab-3c043a205dad", "title": "Vagrant lets you wrap VDI images", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/vagrant-lets-you-wrap-vdi-images/", "published_at": "2023-12-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8cd-73dc-a9ab-3c043a6c213f", "title": "Most 2 digit numbers not divisible by 2, 3, or 5 are prime", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/most-2-digit-numbers-not-divisible-by-2-3-or-5-are-prime/", "published_at": "2023-12-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8cd-73dc-a9ab-3c043a971fff", "title": "Git aliases for fun and profit", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/git-aliases-for-fun-and-profit/", "published_at": "2023-12-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8cd-73dc-a9ab-3c043b8e949c", "title": "Haskell has a rustup now?", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/haskell-has-a-rustup-now/", "published_at": "2023-12-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8cd-73dc-a9ab-3c043c797c64", "title": "Outage postmortem: Why didn't SelkoArchive get today's news?", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/outage-postmortem-why-didn-t-selkoarchive-get-today-s-news/", "published_at": "2023-12-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb5cb145c", "title": "Things Word has that SSGs, by and large, don't", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/things-word-has-that-ssgs-by-and-large-don-t/", "published_at": "2023-11-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb67e38d7", "title": "traceroute uses UDP by default, not ICMP", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/traceroute-uses-udp-by-default-not-icmp/", "published_at": "2023-11-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb72f271f", "title": "Cloud translation is more expensive than I thought", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/selkouutiset-archive-now-supports-77-languages/", "published_at": "2023-11-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb79a4615", "title": "Pomodoros and leverage ratios", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/pomodoros-and-leverage-ratios/", "published_at": "2023-11-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb7e9b7f0", "title": "One problem with user-scoped `systemd` timers", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/one-problem-with-user-scoped-systemd-timers/", "published_at": "2023-11-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb805a6b5", "title": "Promoting Blog Tag Reuse with `fzf`", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/promoting-blog-tag-reuse-with-fzf/", "published_at": "2023-11-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb8716c40", "title": "The Rule of Four", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/the-rule-of-four/", "published_at": "2023-11-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb95f5396", "title": "Hugo's Secret RSS Feeds", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/hugo-s-secret-rss-feeds/", "published_at": "2023-11-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb9d74f79", "title": "Hosting on Azure? Don't forget to declare UTF-8", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/hosting-on-azure-don-t-forget-to-declare-utf-8/", "published_at": "2023-11-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bb9fb0a2b", "title": "Git controlled, user-scoped, recoverable-after-install `systemd` services and timers", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/user-facing-services-and-timers-with-systemd/", "published_at": "2023-11-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bba709974", "title": "That damned Debian 10 one-liner I always need to let me `sudo`", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/that-damned-debian-10-one-liner/", "published_at": "2023-11-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bbaa50e31", "title": "Art of the dotflag -- `.nojekyll`, `.gitkeep` and their ilk", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/the-art-of-dotflags-nojekyll/", "published_at": "2023-11-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bbb416a0d", "title": "A good place to symlink local builds", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/a-good-place-to-symlink-local-builds/", "published_at": "2023-11-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bbb5d59c5", "title": "No such thing as a Post-Push Hook", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/no-such-thing-as-a-post-push-hook/", "published_at": "2023-11-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bbc42994c", "title": "Multi-line string literals in Fish", "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/multi-line-string-literals-in-fish/", "published_at": "2023-11-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c55-c8ce-72bf-81a9-e32bbca0af80", "title": null, "url": "https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/readme/", "published_at": null } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

Don't use an LLM for your README.md original ↗

17 Aug 2026

Claude Max 20x plan as open source subsidy original ↗

30 Jun 2026

AI slop grenades and the principal-agent problem original ↗

22 May 2026

Back up your TOTP codes by just printing them original ↗

20 May 2026

Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary original ↗

10 May 2026

I still like Jenkins original ↗

9 May 2026

The --i-tell-you-shut-up flag original ↗

4 May 2026

Claude Mythos and the EU Cyber Resilience Act original ↗

16 Apr 2026

The long death of programming languages original ↗

25 Feb 2026

Claude Code and executive function original ↗

28 Jan 2026

Claude Code disproportionately benefits those who touch type original ↗

24 Jan 2026

Lua is a pretty good config language original ↗

6 Jan 2026

2025

Copy-Item is 27 percent slower than File Explorer drag and drop on Windows original ↗

6 Dec 2025

"Courage to quit" matters more for seniors, less for juniors original ↗

29 Nov 2025

Lessons learned from 2 years of operating a teensy-tiny news archive original ↗

27 Oct 2025

Where is the DevOps for Yocto?original ↗

27 Sept 2025

LLMs solve the biggest problem with language textbooks original ↗

25 Sept 2025

Code should be clean because business isn't original ↗

20 Sept 2025

tarsnap is cozy original ↗

10 Sept 2025

It's okay to solve a problem twice original ↗

22 Aug 2025

You don't need CGO to use SQLite in your Go binary original ↗

18 Jul 2025

Incentivize grandchildren by writing them into your will original ↗

16 Jul 2025

The second wave of spaced repetition apps original ↗

14 Jul 2025

Experiment registry: Can I simply enjoy everything I do?original ↗

7 Jul 2025

Switching Vim colorschemes based on which keyboard layout I have active original ↗

6 Jul 2025

Using LLMs to generate small semantic perturbations for language learning writing practice original ↗

4 Jul 2025

The language learning "Delta" Anki card pattern original ↗

28 Jun 2025

Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm original ↗

26 Jun 2025

LLM, JavaScript, GitHub Pages, localStorage: A recipe for free apps anyone can use original ↗

18 Jun 2025

Create multi-stage Anki card answers with HTML's tag original ↗

7 Jun 2025

LLM tutored writing practice for secondary language acquisition original ↗

1 Jun 2025

Consider the cronslave original ↗

30 May 2025

LLMs make Perl great again original ↗

24 May 2025

Cross-platform TUIs are easier than cross-platform GUIs original ↗

20 May 2025

Vibe coding and complementary goods original ↗

12 Mar 2025

Binary search isn't about search III. Loop invariant of rightmost element search original ↗

9 Mar 2025

Binary search isn't about search II. Loop invariant of leftmost element search original ↗

8 Mar 2025

Binary search isn't about search original ↗

7 Mar 2025

Things you should never do: Use Expect to autotype SSH passwords in scripts original ↗

26 Feb 2025

SQLite is learnable original ↗

18 Feb 2025

`python -m http.server` as ephemeral Dropbox original ↗

21 Jan 2025

2024

Common-sense security for SSH on a new Debian server original ↗

24 Sept 2024

Enforce GPL compliance by offering bounties?original ↗

21 Sept 2024

The self-hosted to DevOps engineer pipeline original ↗

18 Sept 2024

PHP, Go, and Braindead Deployment original ↗

16 Sept 2024

PHP and Web Dev Phobia original ↗

3 Sept 2024

How I ask GPT-4 to make tiny Python scripts in practice original ↗

22 Aug 2024

The highest personal ROI program I have written so far original ↗

30 Jul 2024

My pet theory of how great software gets started original ↗

16 Jul 2024

What scripting languages come out of the box on Debian 12?original ↗

23 Jun 2024

Valuable software is about letting people do new things original ↗

21 Jun 2024

Layers of abstraction for me, not for thee original ↗

18 Jun 2024

Software engineers as mental athletes original ↗

15 Jun 2024

OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon original ↗

5 Jun 2024

Quickstarts and Slowstarts original ↗

4 Jun 2024

Lessons learned from 6 months of operating a teensy-tiny news archive original ↗

1 Jun 2024

Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal original ↗

28 May 2024

Trackballs are great for the mostly-mouseless original ↗

26 May 2024

tmux is worse is better original ↗

23 May 2024

Disable your browser history to write better internal docs original ↗

14 May 2024

I'm turning 30 so naturally I'm switching to OpenBSD original ↗

4 May 2024

PHP is Web Shell original ↗

29 Apr 2024

Language learning treated as breadth-first search original ↗

22 Apr 2024

Most "life lessons" you hear are about scaling back original ↗

20 Apr 2024

Check my math - NixOS vs the Most Complicated Program on Earth (MCPOE)original ↗

14 Apr 2024

Beware those who promise increasing marginal returns original ↗

9 Apr 2024

The 10 sentences heuristic for foreign vocabulary acquisition original ↗

1 Apr 2024

The unreasonable effectiveness of VMs in hacker pedagogy original ↗

31 Mar 2024

fd + xargs + bat = quick document review original ↗

25 Feb 2024

wall: Broadcast message all Linux users original ↗

1 Feb 2024

Some New Year experiments original ↗

1 Jan 2024

2023

Been quiet - studying Finnish original ↗

12 Dec 2023

Speed paint videos for software installations original ↗

7 Dec 2023

Getting `fzf` to print the preview pane original ↗

6 Dec 2023

Vagrant lets you wrap VDI images original ↗

5 Dec 2023

Most 2 digit numbers not divisible by 2, 3, or 5 are prime original ↗

4 Dec 2023

Git aliases for fun and profit original ↗

3 Dec 2023

Haskell has a rustup now?original ↗

2 Dec 2023

Outage postmortem: Why didn't SelkoArchive get today's news?original ↗

1 Dec 2023

Things Word has that SSGs, by and large, don't original ↗

30 Nov 2023

traceroute uses UDP by default, not ICMP original ↗

29 Nov 2023

Cloud translation is more expensive than I thought original ↗

28 Nov 2023

Pomodoros and leverage ratios original ↗

27 Nov 2023

One problem with user-scoped `systemd` timers original ↗

26 Nov 2023

Promoting Blog Tag Reuse with `fzf`original ↗

25 Nov 2023

The Rule of Four original ↗

24 Nov 2023

Hugo's Secret RSS Feeds original ↗

23 Nov 2023

Hosting on Azure? Don't forget to declare UTF-8 original ↗

22 Nov 2023

Git controlled, user-scoped, recoverable-after-install `systemd` services and timers original ↗

21 Nov 2023

That damned Debian 10 one-liner I always need to let me `sudo`original ↗

20 Nov 2023

Art of the dotflag -- `.nojekyll`, `.gitkeep` and their ilk original ↗

19 Nov 2023

A good place to symlink local builds original ↗

18 Nov 2023

No such thing as a Post-Push Hook original ↗

18 Nov 2023

Multi-line string literals in Fish original ↗

17 Nov 2023

Undated

https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/readme/original ↗

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