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Incrementing and decrementing numbers in Vim

I live on the command-line, and a huge chunk of that time is spent in Vim. Well, Neovim, actually. I do everything from writing code, to writing for my blog, as well as other prose that I have in the [...]

Generating lowercase UUIDs with uuidgen on macOS

The implementation of uuidgen on Linux returns all lowercase letters by default. The implementation of uuidgen on macOS returns all uppercase letters by default. This triggers the hell out of me, by default. Usually when I approach consistency between macOS [...]

How to search for installable packages on Debian

The thing that I miss most of all since moving from Arch Linux back over to Debian is the Arch User Repository (AUR). Every package I ever needed was there, sometimes multiple times based on different forks that folks were [...]

Using multiple profiles with aws-cli

One of the best aspects of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is that a full featured command-line utility exists for it. If you've ever spent a decent amount of time in the AWS Console (their web interface) then you understand why [...]

Switching from Arch Linux back to Debian

After the better part of the last decade running Arch Linux as my primary distro of choice on my laptops, I've decided to hang it up and move back to Debian. That's not to say that there's anything wrong with [...]

Screenshots are not documentation

Repeat after me, "screenshots are NOT documentation". Neither are videos, looms, or animated GIFs. Links to Google Docs or random websites, better, but not best. The aforementioned media types are often confused with real, honest to glob, documentation. When you're [...]

Showing differences of staged files with git

Something I don't like about git, primarily because it doesn't fit into my personal development workflow, is how git diff only applies to files that have not been staged to commit. Sure, it makes sense if you are the type [...]

Fixing missing cycle area in Logic Pro

We've been spending a ton of time over the last year in Logic Pro. With 50+ songs put together, and the end goal of finally, formally releasing some material, we've gotten very familiar with Logic Pro and some of it's [...]

SSH into server with broken or missing shell

I did the unthinkable the other day. I attempted to upgrade my Debian home server (sherver) from Debian 10 to 11. In doing so, I fat fingered something in /etc/apt/sources.list. I then proceeded to run the usual update and upgrade [...]

Using paths to create hierarchies in Parameter Store

Parameter Store only supports a limited number of character for the parameter name. As per the error message you're presented with, Only a mix of letters, numbers and the following 3 symbols .-_ are allowed. What that error fails to [...]