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You can create a .gitattributes file to hide languages from the GitHub languages bar.

While we were promised shorter workdays thanks to AI, it has only increased expectations and surplus value goes to the executives and shareholders.

Pulumi access tokens all look the same but you can use the Pulumi CLI or API to figure out what kind of token it is.

Steps to set up a Time Machine drive from the command line.

Failed backups prevent older snapshots from being released. Old snapshots retain deleted files and can take up a bunch of space.

ANSI escape codes are used to colorize text in a terminal.

Most programming languages have a way to detect if code is being run in a terminal.

You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore

Use brew extract to install a specific version of a homebrew package.

How to configure CloudFront to proxy requests to GoatCounter so that adblockers don’t block page views.

I used AI to contribute to an open source project. The code was merged. I didn’t learn anything and I felt bad as an engineer.

Workday makes it a huge pain in the ass to apply to companies.

Build requests with http.NewRequest() to add headers, then send them with http.Client{}

Examples of using time.Sleep() in Go because the official documentation is lacking.

A guide to connect a Synology NAS to a WireGuard VPN server, with qBittorrent as an example.

Honest answers to common interview questions in the tech field.

How to set up GitHub Actions for Pulumi when the state is stored in an AWS S3 Bucket.

Copy a list in Python using the copy() method, not the assignment operator.

Use agg with a huge font size to get high quality GIFs.

Create a .hushlogin file in your home directory to silence login messages.