Author: Josh Sherman
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How to start an AWS CodePipeline
While not a difficult task to pull off, starting a pipeline in the AWS Console for CodePipeline does tend to be a confusing thing when somebody has never done it before. The reason for this is the naming of the action. The AWS Console doesn’t have a big shiny “Start”…
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Command not found csc on Debian
I recently inherited a .NET application, written in C#. I know little to nothing about any of the aforementioned, but I do know how to use a web search and/or AI chat bot to figure things out. That being said, I installed Mono locally, as one does when they are…
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Fix Debian Bookworm non-free changed to non-free-firmware
While not nearly as frequent as the weirdness I used to experience with Arch Linux, Debian has it’s fair share of unique problems to solve. This week’s cropped up while running an apt update before running an apt upgrade. Fortunately, most of the stuff I run into on Debian is…
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How to install Node.js 20 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Less than a week ago, Node.js 20 release. While it’s not the current LTS release, it will be this coming October 2023. You’re probably wondering why this post is about Ubuntu 20.04 LTS considering there is a newer LTS release and multiple non-LTS releases that I could be targeting. Kinda…
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Obligatory post about artificial intelligence
Within the tech community, it seems like all we’re talking about these days is AI, ChatGPT, alternatives and such. Recently, I had the opportunity to hang out with somebody outside of the tech community and they actually brought up ChatGPT to me, and how they were leveraging it. But also,…
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Unzipping multiple files from the command-line
Ran into an issue recently where I attempting to unzip a directory of files, but the “Extract” and “Extract to” options stopped showing up in the GNOME Files app. Before realizing that the issue was due to there being a non-ZIP archive in the directory that I had selected, I…
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How do I update GodMode9?
As part of my recent spring cleaning of my Nintendo 3DS XL, I’ve been updating the custom firmware (CFW) as well as a bunch of the homebrew / after market software that I had installed. One such piece of software was GodMode9, and this was actually the first time I…
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Check cluster size of FAT32 disk in Linux
After venturing into retro gaming by way of an Anbernic RG35XX and a PowKiddy v90, I decided it was time to dust off my old Nintendo 3DS XL and get it a bit more battle ready to do some retro gaming. Part of the spring cleaning was to upgrade the…
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Time zone conversion with PHP
I do not like time zones. They’ve been a fairly regular pain point in my career, especially early on. There was even a time when I built something and totally forgot that time zones existed and well, it was a mess. For the most part, time zones don’t cause me…
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Parsing arguments in shell script
I write a good amount of shell scripts, but I tend to use arguments pretty sparingly. Because of this, my implementation to handle said arguments tends to be pretty weak. Some good examples are the arguments needing to be passed in a specific order and a lack of using long…