There’s a saying among system administrators: It’s always DNS. Meaning that whenever there’s an issue, DNS is likely the culprit. This morning that adage proved itself yet again. My home network is currently running off of a Cradlepoint router. Cradlepoint’s specialty is making routers that can leverage LTE, so my router is configured to use… Continue reading It’s Always DNS
Month: August 2020
Full Content RSS Feeds With Hugo
Last week I made a test post on Mastodon linking to one of my blogsthisthis via curl. I was doing this to see how to best handle the formatting for a script I was working on to periodically check my blog and link to any new posts from Mastodon. My friend tomasino who I’ve known… Continue reading Full Content RSS Feeds With Hugo
Python’s Beautiful Soup
In my last post, I more or less just complained about what a dumpster fire developing anything for Twitter is. Originally, though, the post was intended to be about what I was developing for Twitter. It’s nothing amazing or even complicated, but it was a fun learning experience… Twitter itself not withstanding. I made a… Continue reading Python’s Beautiful Soup
Twitter Development Impressions
I recently had an idea to turn the Twitter account for my defunct podcast into a Twitter bot posting a new shade of pink every day; it makes sense because the podcast and Twitter account were centered around the color pink. I didn’t really think anyone would care about this particular bot, but it seemed… Continue reading Twitter Development Impressions
Grep and Sed to Modify All Files in a Directory
I recently decided to rebrand one of my websites, complete with a different domain, title, and author (that’s me!) This is part of the beauty of using a static site generator like Hugo; I updated the domain in my configuration file, and everything else just magically changed when the site was recompiled. The caveat is… Continue reading Grep and Sed to Modify All Files in a Directory