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It's been well over a year since I started serving 429s to clients which are hitting the feed too often. Since then, much has happened, and most of it is generally good news.

Or, "Thanks, but I reject your cache-buster or tracking token." I decided to change my various pages to reject unknown URL search parameters. URLs mean things, and ideally only one URL will refer to a given document. And mangling URLs instead of respecting the Expires header is antisocial behavior. There are lots of badly-behaved feed readers out there. You may be about to find out that yours

The "feed reader score" service that I mentioned earlier this week is now up and running. Several people reached out to me and I have sent them their unique codes and links to the instructions so they can get started.

In Linux, everything is a file. Even any hardware device connected to the system is represented as a special file. So it shouldnt come as a surprise ...

Please note that this article seeks to explore viable ways of viewing (not opening) a PDF file from the Linux command-line environment.

Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

I will no doubt get told i am doing this wrong, but ... Firstly, go to Control Panel - Network -DSM settings, check Enable Customized domain...

Welcome to the Void

It’s more than rails!

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I have a bunch of files stored in various directories. They have been created at different times, but I need to check that their contents are the same. I cannot find how to do a diff on ALL files i...

Never rewrite code, use functions instead!

In the third part of the Bash Beginner Series, you'll learn to pass arguments to a bash shell script. You'll also learn about special bash shell variables.

Standard HTTP logs miss crucial details like request and response bodies, hindering debugging. Our article offers solutions for complete HTTP logging, ensuring you have all the necessary information for effective web management.

I did something recently I haven’t done in a long time: I recompiled the Linux kernel. There was a time when this was a common occurrence. You might want a feature that the default kernel did…

Steampipe has many plug-ins to convert internal app data to nice SQL tables. In this post, we look at how the Slack plug-in works.

I am working on a project where a user can upload webp images. I know how to convert webp images into jpg/png, but am stuck on how to identify whether the webp image is static (non-animated) or ani...

Learn different methods of mounting QCOW2 image files in a Linux environment.

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Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones