Low Level Manager

TL;DR : If you're handling webhook events from Mux (or any webhook-heavy API) and only care about a subset of event types, use an Annota...

LDAP is mysterious and opaque to me. Deep dark magic, etc. Summary Jump down to see perl and ldapsearch examples for querying an ldap ser...

Lowlevelmanager.com domain is back online! Godaddy allowed a ring of foreign IPs to access my account and modify domains. Most actio...

After updating my vim plugins and adding a few new ones, I found my start up time became unreasonably slow. I blamed my tag generating plug...

TL;DR: replace: https://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/ with: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/SyntaxHighlighter/3.0.83 S...

Originally written for an introduction email/cover letter, this ran well over blog length. I moved it here and aggressively edited the emai...

The rust playground is awesome. It allows playing with rust in the browser, without needing to install anything locally. These playgroun...

Embedding a github gist Github has improved their gists by directly providing an embed script. This is pretty handy. From the sharing dr...

2019 was my "Year of Rust".  I'd hoped to blog about that, yet here we are. :)    Recently I've been doing random proble...

TIL: the -c flag to attach-session will update the default current working directory for new windows. attach-session can be run from th...

For Hacktoberfest 2018, I set a goal of completing both the primary contest and at least one side quest. I succeeded! Hacktoberfest is a...

It's been a dark few years here on the "darkest timeline." I'm going to let my light shine -- I'm hopeful that I'...

But these little setbacks are sometimes just what we need to take a giant step forward, Right Kent?

Tmux has a neat feature where certain environment variables can be updated during attachment. SSH_AUTH_SOCK is included by default. When ...

Interview with an adware author. It was funny. It really showed me the power of gradualism. It’s hard to get people to do something bad al...

TL;DR git alias to autosquash fixup commits non-interactivly: git config --global alias.fixup '!GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=true git rebase -i...

Always use to_owned() to convert a string literal. I found this lovely explanation of to_string() vs to_owned() for rust. Only use to...

I'm presenting at SCALE 14x on Sunday January 24, 2016. Fix the Website: a devops success story ( details ) Here are my slides! ...

Embedded below is my presentation from YAPC.na 2015 on Effective Git: better commits via inspecting history and code archeology . I showe...

Key Insight AWS doesn't let you modify the key for server-credentials, forcing you to create new ones and then update CloudFront(CF) an...