I think the people who are suffering most in software dev are the products of the 2000's "learn to code" and "teach kids to code" campaigns where industry was trying to flood the job market with "just good enough" coders. Computer Science degrees also dont prepare you to be a software engineer and..

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# kill %1 || kill 1
When it REALLY needs to die.

I have never been more stressed out about writing 200 lines of code than my DNSSEC NSEC validation function 😭

Also, DNSSEC isn't as SEC as I initially assumed.

Have you ever wanted to stream video directly from one OBS Studio instance to another? With this one little trick it is trivial to set up!
thewoods.blog/obs-to-obs/

I am planning a dev stream while creating a linux distro from scratch, any advice? (no this isn't going to be a Debian/Arch variant)
thewoods.blog/projects/lin...

When not to create a new web service. Seriously, stop it. I have had this argument too many times so I just wrote it all down: thewoods.blog/svc-lib/

Decapitating GPT (no not that GPT, GUID Partition Table). I needed to do some direct manipulation of disk images and created a GPT header parser using nothing more than hexdump: thewoods.blog/gpt-header/

Have you ever just wanted to buy a decent website template rather than build your own for the 100th time? Every time I go looking I am miserably disappointed by the code quality and data factoring of "professional" templates. If you make website templates, PLEASE READ: thewoods.blog/ssg-templates/

If you work in data science, or more specifically with the Galaxy data pipeline platform, I have some great tricks for you! Most notably conditional branching in workflows: thewoods.blog/Galaxy-tips/

Spent some time writing a base64url encoder/decoder in Javascript that is as terse as possible while still being somewhat readable: thewoods.blog/base64url/

If you ever have to deal with a private git repo and Terraform there is a handy trick to pre-authenticate git before Terraform slams its head into the auth prompt: thewoods.blog/GitHub-Actio...

I wanted to take a vacation to Yellowstone. To plan ahead I did some data analysis of the park fill times so I wouldn't be left stranded at the gate: thewoods.blog/Yellowstone-...

Did a write up a while back for a O(1) algorithm to calculate an offset in a domain through recursive subdivision. This is handy for producing a series of colors that start as distinct as possible: thewoods.blog/Recursive-Su...