How This Blog Works
How I put this site together and why.
The Comcast Technician Problem
Given a set of tasks, incentives are often aligned towards dropping a task rather than allowing for perpetual accretion of delays.
Vim: Use Drop Not Edit, SBuffer Not Buffer
Use the :drop
command instead of :edit
in Vim. It will reuse an existing
window instead of creating a new one.
Notes from Crash Course's Videos on Fact Checking Information You See On The Internet
Hank Green's Crash Course YouTube channel has an excellent series about navigating digital information. It's an excellent guide to how internet users could intelligently consume information they see on the internet. These are my (incomplete) notes from the series.
Easier CLI for ad-hoc Ansible tasks and playbooks
Encode the host and group names into the name of a wrapper script for quick ad-hoc invocation of Ansible tasks and playbooks.
Identity Domains
An Identity Domain is a scope within which we assume that the user's identity can roam freely.
Ephemeral Fingerprinting On The Web
Any ephemeral low-entropy web observable property whose changes are concurrently observable by multiple sites can lead to cross site identity joining.
This method of identity joining does not require coordination between multiple first parties. A single third party embedded within multiple first parties can also use this method.