How to Exclude Files from a Zip Archive

When zipping a folder using the command line in macOS, you may have noticed certain files are include such as DSStore and MACOSX are included . With a few command arguments, these files can be filtered out. Exclude...

Seth’s First, ten

Seth’s post titled First, ten from back in 2009 is still relevant today. If you are building a product, finding your first ten users can be challenging but they are the first step to 100 then a 1,000 and so on. Plan...

Laravel, Cloudflare and Trusted Proxies

When using Cloudflare to manage your site, you may notice that if you check the ip address of the request, it will be an ip address from Cloudflare. This is happening because Cloudflare is proxying the request to...

How to View Source Code of an Extension

Browser extensions are composed of Javascript, HTML, CSS, and images. Before installing any extension I will usually review the source code. This is important to verify that an extension is not doing anything...

Is Wireless Charging that Great?

With the purchase of my new iPhone , I now had a phone that was capable of wireless charging. Yes yes, I know that Android has had wireless charging for years. I honestly didn’t think it was that great of a feature....

Set Image Src from Amazon S3

I needed to request an image from Amazon S3 using ajax so I could read the response metadata headers. At first this seemed like a simple task. The first issue I encountered was that S3 was blocking the metadata...

Weather Extension Status Page

When managing multiple websites, apps, and extensions it is important to know when a site is down before your users have to alert you. Currently, I use UptimeRobot to monitor all my websites etc. It’s a great service...

How To Find Large Files Linux

Running out of disk space on your Linux server and need to find the files taking up the most space? The du or Disk Utility command is a standard Linux command, used to check the information of disk usage of files and...

Text Replacement Not Working

With the release of iOS 12, Apple appears to have placed a 128 character limit on text replacement . At first, I thought this was a bug but it appears to be intentional. After some searching, I discovered a simple...

Curl gzip Website

If you have ever tried to curl a website and it returns a bunch of unreadable characters? It is most likely a gzip /compressed response. Here is an example of a curl request to amazon.com which returns compressed...