I’ve been slowly organizing/migrating my ancient configurations.
I glanced at my spam folder yesterday and it looks like craft wants to be the word of the year. I still have lots of vim power tools, vim drill bits, and vim drill sets in my toolbox.

I don’t get to use vim as much as I’d like to but maybe I’ll get a chance to clip out more esoteric stuff from vim, neovim, and other niche terminal programs.

If anyone’s getting into nginx look into nginxinc/crossplane. That parser is particularly good if you’re trying to analyze or do sophisticated stuff with a huge nginx.conf. I have this one installed in my playground, here’s a quick and dirty demo:

I think someone asked. But is it possible to classically convert a PDF into JSON? And the answer is yes, yes you can. The feats of programming know no end (it’s out of my explanatory scope, sorry).

qpdf --json-output my.pdf my.json

I’m finally realizing that in the stack link of this post, there’s actually an entry about “grepping” the device. Everything’s a file or something. It feels comical.

This graph is from Grafana. It’s moreso for developer operations. I used to use qtiplot for random stuff, but nowadays I use gnuplot for scriptability (not GNU, see demos). Then, there’s Microsoft Excel et al.