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Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Mar. 27, 2020
Last year, I added webmentions to this blog. To recap, webmentions are a web standard to create a network of comments, likes, and reposts between ordinary sites. I set up a brid.gy account to poll Twitter for webmentions targetting my blog, and I caught them with webmention.io.Webmentions were fetc…
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on Mar. 18, 2020
A listing of my favorite ls features.To know wich directory you're in now, use the pwd command. pwd stands for “print working directory”.> pwd/Users/sebastiandedeyne/Sites/testList the current directory, use the ls command. ls is short for “list”.> lsREADME.md assets index.htmlInclude hidden …
Written by Sebastian De Deyne
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on Mar. 18, 2020
I've been a Mac user for over a decade now. Over time I've added more and more Unix commands to my muscle memory.List a directory? ls. Create a new file? touch.But there are also pesky tasks that come up once in a blue moon.List a directory in a single column to copy paste? ls -whoknows. Find all …
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on Mar. 17, 2020
Every now and then I need to bump a dependency in a package, or require a higher PHP version. {"name": "my/package","require": {- "php": ">=7.2.0",+ "php": ">=7.4.0",- "league/commonmark": "^0.19",+ "league/commonmark": "^1.0", }}When updating an underlying dependency, I don't always tag a ne…
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on Mar. 12, 2020
I've always had a hard time finding a proper response to the classic “privacy isn't important because I have nothing to hide” argument.Paul Jarvis, cofounder of the privacy-first analytics tool Fathom Analytics, makes some strong points in But I have nothing to hide.Whether it’s on reality TV or ev…
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on Mar. 10, 2020
I just upgraded Node.js on a Laravel Forge provisioned Ubuntu server for the umptieth time. I can never remember how to upgrade to a higher major Node.js version, so I'm documenting the process for future me.Node.js is installed through a debian repository on Forge. Upgrading with apt-get will upgr…