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An occasionally updated list of references, usually for technical things
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2025 1 post
2024 29 posts
- Capturing web traffic with Chrome's NetLog dumper
- Kafka Golang Hash Strategy
- Kafka Default Partitioner
- Why is node-gyp complaining about missing distutils under Python 3.12?
- Lucene Cheat Sheet
- Athena Cheat Sheet
- Arch Linux
- Athena Empty Logs
- How can I visualise stack and heap alloactions in Go?
- How can I view macOS network filter rules?
- How can I unpack the contents of an Electron app?
- How can I subscribe to a YouTube channel with an RSS reader?
- How can I strip code signatures from macOS binaries?
- How can I remove an item from Terraform state?
- How can I quickly flatten a JSON dictionary?
- How can I live tail statsd metrics?
- How can I inspect socket connection states
- How can I go about investigating system calls?
- How can I generate a self-signed CA certificate chain?
- How can I extract stuff from the macOS shared dyld cache?
- How can I extract macOS signatures from binaries?
- How can I extract a list of Kobo versions from a device?
- How can I easily bulk generate icons on macOS?
- How can I decrypt SSL traffic with Wireshark?
- How can I cross-compile Golang software using Zig?
- How can I check whether TCP window scaling is enabled?
- How can I check whether a server may be unnecessarily slow-starting?
- How can I check if an S3 bucket name is available?
- How can I capture network packets with tcpdump?
2021 46 posts
- How can I globally ignore files?
- How can I remotely connect to a Selenium cluster
- How can I find out why my Mac has restarted?
- How can I disable the 'Try the new Safari' notification?
- What is using Port 5000 on macOS Monterey?
- How can I get rid of the default application folders that ship with my Linux distro?
- How can I configure my printer via terminal on macOS?
- Why did sites split their assets across multiple domains back in the day?
- Why are dot files a thing?
- What non-encryption benefits are provided by HTTPS?
- How can I view the methods associated with an object?
- How can I restrict which traffic is allowed to pass through a Kube ingress?
- How can I perform a regex search in Powershell?
- Why do some Emacs lists start with a backtick instead of a comma?
- Why do some Emacs functions have double dashes?
- Why do Playstation 1 discs start at offset 37656?
- What is worth instrumenting?
- What is tracing?
- What is the period you sometimes see at the end of a domain name?
- What is profiling?
- How was DNS originally implemented?
- How large is a single Prometheus sample?
- How can I view methods associated with an Elixir object?
- How can I view help documentation for an Elixir module?
- How can I view configured networks in my macOS terminal?
- How can I set a default kubectl namespace for a given cluster?
- How can I read a Kubernetes secret?
- How can I pause a recurring Kube cronjob?
- How can I monitor JAMF downloads on macOS?
- How can I look up my current external IP address?
- How can I listen for user changes to their colour scheme (ie dark mode)?
- How can I inspect a SAML request?
- How can I import a dumped database into Postgres?
- How can I find out where Emacs is checking for passwords?
- How can I find my current NODE_MODULE_VERSION?
- How can I export a Postgres database?
- How can I determine if my code is inside of an iFrame?
- How can I create an instance of a Kube cronjob?
- How can I compile Emacs from source?
- Are all Azure regions alike?
- How can I access my clipboard contents inside my terminal?
- How can I test connectivity within my Kube namespace?
- How can I find out more about the hardware inside my Mac?
- How can I use my local certificate store with Firefox?
- How can I try out x-callback-url commands on macOS?
- How can I see what applications are making my shell commands slow?
