Archive of posts from 2018

• Temperature Monitoring on Linux 2018 October 21
  • bash
  • linux
  • tutorial

  Here’s a little shell function to view your system thermometers. Most people would just tell you to install the lm-sensors package, but that’s another package. Why do that when Linux presents it through the /sys filesystem.

• Reimplementing the Tree Command 2018 September 30
  • c-lang
  • linux
  • programming
  • tool
  • tutorial
  

  I decided I’m going to try to reimplement the tree utility from scratch in a very limited version. Mine will only work from the current directory and will support no arguments. This article will take you through my implementation of the problem.

• Whiskey Review - Southern Comfort 2018 July 31
  • reviews
  • whiskey

  I recently turned 21, so that means I can legally drink alcohol. So why not review them as I go along. Let’s start off with one of the most common, Southern Comfort whiskey.

• Firefox Pocket Ads 2018 July 16
  • firefox
  • mozilla
  • privacy
  

  I recently had the unpleasant experience of discovering that ads are built right into the Firefox browser with pocket. I actually liked pocket, because it provided some interesting content, but I find these ads very insulting, as I use Firefox specifically to avoid ads and have my privacy. So I did a little bit of investigating…

• Fortran Subroutine Extractor 2018 July 15
  • awk
  • bash
  • fortran
  • refactor-code

  I’ve been working on a fortran codebase with a lot of code duplicated between subroutines, so I came up with this little bash function using awk to extract subroutines, so I can find the difference between them.

• Batman Ninja Review 2018 June 02
  • batman
  • movies
  • reviews

  I just saw “Batman Ninja”, and it is the most over the top action movie ever. Although it lacks a plot, this movie has some of the best art ever and the action is completely over the top. I feel the action more than makes up for the lack of plot.

• A Shell Function To Automatically Add A Gitignore 2018 May 23
  • git
  • shell
  • tutorial

  I often need to download a gitignore when starting a project, so I made a function that will get a gitignore for a given project from GitHub’s collection.

• Caeser Cipher Decoding Tool 2018 May 12
  • ciphers
  • ctf
  • interactive
  • tool

  A caeser cipher is a cipher that moves each letter by a fixed offset. You'll see these as a common challenge in easier CTF events. So, I wrote a tool to encode caeser ciphers and generic shift ciphers.

• Caeser Cipher Encoding Tool 2018 May 09
  • ciphers
  • ctf
  • interactive
  • tool

  A caeser cipher is a cipher that moves each letter by a fixed offset. You'll see these as a common challenge in easier CTF events. So, I wrote a tool to encode caeser ciphers and generic shift ciphers.

• Monthly Hits on My Blog Posts 2018 May 08
  • data-visualization
  • log-analysis
  

  Just sharing a data visualization of my most popular blog posts.

• Unicode Character Code Decoder 2018 April 21
  • app
  • ctf
  • interactive
  • tool

  This application decodes a unicode string into it's character codes, and names. It's meant to come in handy with CTF events. You enter your string in the form below and it will print out a table with the decode of it. I created it because I found it really difficult to find a decent decoder that gave me the actual codes.

• document.querySelectorAll 2018 March 09
  • javascript
  • tutorial
  • web-scraping

  document.querySelectorAll is one of the most handy tools in JavaScript today. It’s a unified selector interface and brings so much power to the end user. It’s applications are near endless, like replacing JQuery or web scraping. It allows you to query the current document using a css selector, and returns a NodeList. It unifies the selection interface in the web today.

• Fountain Pens 2018 February 22
  • fountain-pens
  • rant

  Fountain pens are one of the most amazing things on the planet, and in my personal opinion they are the best writing instrument ever.

• The Easiest Way to Add Spoilers to Your Blog 2018 February 07
  • html
  • javascript
  • tutorial

  This post describes what I think is the easiest way to add spoilers to your blog. Spoilers are useful when you talk about fiction and don’t want to spoil the ending for a user.