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pages/about.yaml

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 ---
 ![jawn](/media/img/nick.jpg)
 
-By day I'm a Site Reliability Engineer on the Cluster Operations team at
+By day I'm a Site Reliability Engineer on the Fleet Automation team at
 [Dropbox](https://dropbox.com), where I help provide the tools and services to
-automate our datacenters, things such as server provisioning, serve repair
+automate our datacenters, things such as server provisioning, OS installation,
-validation, asset management, etc.
+server repair validation, asset management, etc.
 
 Outside of work I'm usually found riding bikes (sometimes for long distances
-carrying camping gear), wrenching on bikes, drinking too much coffee, drinking
+carrying camping gear), wrenching on bikes, playing around with ham radio,
-not-too-much beer, brewing the former two, or writing code to support my
+drinking too much coffee, or writing code to support my hobbies.
-hobbies.
 
 I'm a huge proponent of free open-source software and maintaining control of
 your data.

pages/projects.yaml

@@ -43,11 +43,6 @@ 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)
 
@@ -55,19 +50,3 @@ 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.

posts/2021-01-08_kvm-usb-auto-passthrough.yaml

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 ```
 
 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 vendor_id:model_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

posts/2022-07-11_cheating_at_wordle_with_grep.yaml

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+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 <letter>` 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.

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