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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Schedule queries with MySQL

While researching the most performant way to delete a high volume of rows in MySQL, I happened upon some syntax that I had never heard of before. This syntax allows you to run a query on a schedule, without the [...]

Removing unneeded Firefox ESR language packs on Debian

I went to run an apt upgrade today and came to realize that I had over 60 language packs for Firefox ESR installed. Seems somewhere along the way I accidentally installed these language packs, or perhaps installed the meta package [...]

Fastify not working in Docker

I've been using Express since it's inception and while I've never really had any issues with it, I'm also always up for messing around with something new. That something new (to me at least) is Fastify. A recent project of [...]

EmuDeck not working after renaming micro SD card

Recently, while cleaning up the SD card I use on my Steam Deck, I decided that the name "UNTITLED" wasn't good enough, and that I would rename it to something more descriptive. What I didn't anticipate is that all of [...]

Horizontal and vertical alignment with Scriptable

While I am a huge fan of widgets on iOS, most apps miss the mark in terms of what they offer via their widgets. Because I'm not one to settle, I have been on a quest to build my own [...]

Wait for open port before running command

There comes a time in every software engineer's life, when they need to run a command, but only after a port has been opened by a completely separate process. Sure, you could sit around and wait for the port to [...]