This is one of the blog posts to set something in my mind that I’m always looking up. Linux has lovely tools for adding and managing users, but I can never remember them. I’m old skool and BSD-centric, so I tend to just use vipw, but it’...
Every wondered what the timestamps on files on UNIX sytems mean?
How to you take a list of files and do something with them in the UNIX shell? xargs is the key.
I’ve touched on shell aliases and functions a few times, today I wanted to get in to a little more detail on passing arguments to them.
Another progress update on my RepRep 3D Prusa Mendel. After digging into the laying issue, I narrowed it down to a likely slicing issue. And, after a lot of research I was able to find the specs I needed for the particular hot end on my ...
A quick update on the RepRep 3D Prusa Mendel I’m working on. I made a print! Several actually.
There’s a handy tool for Mac users that I rarely see getting use, the SSHFS filesystem. SSHFS is a FUSE filesystem uses the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) as it’s backend. The short of it is that you can mount a remote directory on yo...
Previously while talking features of the HTTP Range header I wrote:
In my previous post about codeless APIs I made use the HTTP Range header to download only a portion of the file from a web server or cache (byte serving).
What if I told you that you could create a API backend that didn’t require any code? Crazy right? Wrong! Picture a client side Javascript app that displays a piffy saying. Typically, it would be developed in one of two ways: if the numbe...