I can’t seem to keep my eyes open for long when flying. So right after boarding in Tehran, I fell asleep. “Sir. Sir.” I turn my head to the source of the sound and open my eyes. I got woken up by...

Inspired by our current ‘post-fact democracy’, I had the thought that maybe the internet isn’t the democratic safeguard that people believed it to be in the 90s and 00s. Before the internet, infor...

Catch 22: To manage your municipal information as a Dutch citizen, the Dutch government has created DigiD: a digital ID. You’d be correct to think it’d be super useful for people living abroad, if ...

Remove osxfuse if installed via homebrew: brew uninstall osxfuse Install osxfuse binary and choose to install the MacFUSE compatibility layer Reboot (optional but recommended by osxfuse) Instal...

First, we add your current user account to the operator group and we give the anyone in the operator group read-write access to the raw partition. In my case it’s /dev/disk0s4, but it might be diff...

Create your PAC file, for example function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (shExpMatch(host, "*.google.com") || host == "google.com") { return "PROXY wpad:8888"; } else { return "DIR...

tac Concatenate and write files in reverse, copies each FILE ( - means standard input), or standard input if none are given, to standard output, reversing the records (lines by default) in each fi...

Or click here if that doesn’t work. The piece about the sofa car starts at 2:30 in.

Updated for ansible 2.2.1.0 A friend introduced me to Ansible recently and since then I’ve been spending a lot of time on writing playbooks. (Time which was perhaps better spent on Docker, but for...

Connect to your wordpress DB using MySql workbench and execute this query: DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0; DELETE FROM wp_commentmeta WHERE comment_id NOT IN (SELECT comment_id...