Category: quick-n-dirty
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every appliance should have a power button, preferably in the front
That’s it – that’s the tweet. I’m not going to try and convince you; this is an opinion about something that feels painfully obvious to me, but I don’t care if you feel the same way, unless you design electrical appliances for a living.…
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The 512KB Club part 2: Going below 100KB
WordPress released the first beta for 6.1, including the all-new default theme, Twenty Twenty Three, and on a whim I decided to try it out and see if I can squeeze a few extra bytes after my first attempts at optimization.…
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(Finding about and) Joining the 512KB Club
While reading a blog post linked at the orange site, I noticed and followed a funny little banner, and that’s how I got to https://512kb.club/…
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Limit your sites to VPN and local clients only
The problem: You have a bunch of sites running behind an nginx proxy, and you want to limit access to some of the more critical ones to your VPN clients only as a second security layer.…
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Easy, Cheap Digital Life Redundancy
This is a belated response to the “I’ve locked myself out of my digital life” post that was circulating earlier this month.…
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Openbox scaling for HiDPI displays
I recently switched to a laptop with a 16:10 QHD display (popularized as Retina by a certain shoddy company), and I faced a problem that I had been fearing for a while – scaling on X11/Openbox.…