diff --git a/pages/about.yaml b/pages/about.yaml index 1a6ad7b..a4e92af 100644 --- a/pages/about.yaml +++ b/pages/about.yaml @@ -5,14 +5,15 @@ slug: about --- ![jawn](/media/img/nick.jpg) -By day I'm a Site Reliability Engineer on the Fleet Automation team at +By day I'm a Site Reliability Engineer on the Cluster Operations team at [Dropbox](https://dropbox.com), where I help provide the tools and services to -automate our datacenters, things such as server provisioning, OS installation, -server repair validation, asset management, etc. +automate our datacenters, things such as server provisioning, serve repair +validation, asset management, etc. Outside of work I'm usually found riding bikes (sometimes for long distances -carrying camping gear), wrenching on bikes, playing around with ham radio, -drinking too much coffee, or writing code to support my hobbies. +carrying camping gear), wrenching on bikes, drinking too much coffee, drinking +not-too-much beer, brewing the former two, or writing code to support my +hobbies. I'm a huge proponent of free open-source software and maintaining control of your data. diff --git a/pages/projects.yaml b/pages/projects.yaml index f57a582..b6f869a 100644 --- a/pages/projects.yaml +++ b/pages/projects.yaml @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ Links: [Project page](/cpu-usage-meter/), [Linux source](/media/projects/cpu_met LEDs on the front of my computer case displaying the CPU load. +### Serial IR Receiver (2006) +Links: [Project page](/ir-receiver/) + +A simple serial-based LIRC-compatible IR reciever. + ### ServCheck (PHP) Links: [servCheck.tar.gz](/media/projects/servCheck.tar.gz) @@ -50,3 +55,19 @@ A simple service checker written in PHP. Attempts to open a socket with the configured hosts and ports, and outputs an HTML file showing which services are up and down. I originally wrote this for the TerminalUnix site to show what's working and what isn't. + +### TerminalUnix (PHP) +A PHP and MySQL driven site, functioning as a web front-end and community site for +the TerminalUnix server. I started it because I was sick of all of these Content +Management Systems having features that I didn't want. I sat down during Spring Break +of 2006 and coded a PHP login system, not knowing about the wonders of some of the PHP +features. Eventually I coded nice things in such as MySQL access (instead of a flat +text file), a user adminstration system, and even a news sytem. + +Unfortunately I don't plan on releasing the source code since it's a big hard-coded mess. + +### N-Queens solver (C++) +Links: [nqueens.tar.gz](/media/projects/nqueens.tar.gz) + +Another Data Structures homework assignment. This solves (brute-forces) the +[N-Queens Problem](https://www.google.com/search?q=n-queens+problem) using recursion and backtracking. diff --git a/posts/2021-01-08_kvm-usb-auto-passthrough.yaml b/posts/2021-01-08_kvm-usb-auto-passthrough.yaml index bd1f99a..7c36ca7 100644 --- a/posts/2021-01-08_kvm-usb-auto-passthrough.yaml +++ b/posts/2021-01-08_kvm-usb-auto-passthrough.yaml @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ ACTION=="remove", \ ``` The VENDOR_ID and MODEL_ID can be found by running the `lsusb` command, which -shows this as "ID vendor_id:model_id", for example "ID 6b62:6869". +shows this as "ID :", for example "ID 6b62:6869". And of course, here's the script `/usr/local/bin/kvm-udev` which takes care of the auto-connecting. It takes two parameters, first either being "attach" or diff --git a/posts/2022-07-11_cheating_at_wordle_with_grep.yaml b/posts/2022-07-11_cheating_at_wordle_with_grep.yaml deleted file mode 100644 index 6405c21..0000000 --- a/posts/2022-07-11_cheating_at_wordle_with_grep.yaml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ -date: 2022-07-11 -title: 'Cheating at Wordle with grep' -tags: - - linux ---- -I usually try to make a good effort at -[Wordle](https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html), but sometimes I get -down to the last one or two chances and need some help. Instead of anything -fancy-pants, I usually turn to a dictionary file and my friend, `grep`. - -So, first thing's first, you need a dictionary file, which is just a file with -a bunch of words one-per-line. These are usually found in `/usr/share/dict`. I -happen to have `cracklib-small` on my machine so we'll use that. - -First, you'll want to get all the five-letter words out of the file. I use the -regex `^\w{5}$`, which is `^` for the start of the line, `\w` for an -alphanumeric character, `{5}` saying that there are 5 of them, and `$` for the -end of the line. The beginning and end of line markers are important, otherwise -you'll get words that contain 5 or more letters. - -``` -grep -E '^\w{5}$' /usr/share/dict/cracklib-small -``` - -At this point, I've already made some guesses and have a few letters in the -right spot, and some letters which are correct but in the wrong spot. We'll -bucket these into two `grep`s. - -For letters in the right spot, I stick those right into a regex. For example, -let's say I know the word starts with 'f' and 'a': - -``` -grep -E 'fa\w\w\w' -``` - -For the right letters in the wrong spot, I simply use the letter as the regex. -If I have multiple letters, I can chain those together by piping grep like so: - -``` -grep s | grep t -``` - -So chaining them all together: - -``` -$ grep -E '^\w{5}$' /usr/share/dict/cracklib-small \ - | grep -e 'fa\w\w\w' \ - | grep s | grep t -facts -fasts -fates -faust -``` - -You could eliminate words that have letters you've already eliminiated by -chaining `grep -v ` to the end, but I find that pretty cumbersome. -There's only a handful of possible words at this point, so I think it's easier -to just remove them in my head. diff --git a/templates/base.html b/templates/base.html index 38c1074..7b3cb8f 100644 --- a/templates/base.html +++ b/templates/base.html @@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ - -
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