Scratchpad for July 12 2020
- Tmux for mere mortals
- Some nice ideas in this post. I always enjoy perusing other people’s config files.
- Probing Facebook’s Misinformation Machine
- Further proof that Facebook is at best a criminal enterprise and Zuckerberg is lying with a straight face.
- Micro services inside FreeBSD using Jails, NGINX and PF
- Mostly interesting for the part about setting up GoAccess.
- Star Wars Backgrounds for Video Calls & Meetings
- Great images, even (or especially) when not using them on video calls.
- 98.css
- A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs. Now I wish there was one for classic Mac OS.
- Bastille
- Automated deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD. Using jails of course.
- A tcpdump Tutorial with Examples — 50 Ways to Isolate Traffic
- If you learn better by example (I do), this is an invaluable resource for understanding tcpdump syntax.
- The Invention of the AeroPress
- Lots of stuff I didn’t know before.
- Text processing in the shell
- Very nice overview with lots of examples.
- Containers are Not the Future
- Despite being penned by the CEO of a company offering a purported solution, I tend to agree. The whole Kubernetes hype will someday crash and burn.
- Is Presentation the Cause of Loneliness?
- An interesting point to meditate on.
- Simple solution for outgoing mail from a FreeBSD system
- Quick overview of two popular alternatives.
- POSIX Shell Tutorial
- Good introduction to POSIX scripting.
- It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time
- Not surprising at all.
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