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A Real War Hero

A Real War Hero

Today is Remembrance Day, when we honour the sacrifices made by the millions of brave folks who gave their lives fighting wars to preserve the freedoms we enjoy. While Remembrance Day usually references WWI, I want to write about a WWII hero: The Tatra 87, a Czechoslovakian-made car that could

Stupid Useless Things to Do (with Linux)

Stupid Useless Things to Do (with Linux)

When I find myself in time of trouble, The Terminal comes to me. Spewing logs of garbage, let it dd * GPLennon–McCarmtney Whether or not you're wasting your time is probably unrelated to your chosen operating system, but it can definitely help in the endeavour. If there'

Pfizer? I barely know her!

Pfizer? I barely know her!

Can it be? An effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccine? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, BNT162b2 (the vaccine candidate), has some pretty cool biotechnology behind it.

lazy.ps1

Sometimes you need your computer to think you're pushing the period key every 60 seconds. But how?! Well, if you're on Windows 10...

First mobile post

First mobile post

Today is the day I'm opening this bad boy up to the big public internet, amongst some other boring IT stuff that requires passwords and knowledge of the ancient chants.

A second, subsequent blog post

A second, subsequent blog post

Those who know me best, know that I hate nothing more than single-post blogs. It's unnatural and, honestly, takes up unnecessary space on the internet. Multiple blog posts on a blog are the key to using tagging on the backend. Many blog posts are also about things, rather

A blog post

I've been doing a lot of configuration (and a LOT of reconfiguration) for my ever-expanding list of Docker containers. This is an example of one of those containers, running in Docker. I don't have a ton to say about it right now so.... yeah.