Weather Extension Status Page

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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 that offers uptime checks and will alert you by email or text. It’s free for up to 50 sites checked every 5 minutes. You can even ping servers.

Recently I noticed they offer free status pages which can be public or password protected. Within a few minutes, I was able to create a public status page for my weather extension. Setup was pretty easy after adding the CNAME to my domain in Cloudflare. So now status.weatherextension.com will display the current state of my API, homepage and weather provider. Currently all checks are 100%!

 

How To Find Large Files Linux

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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 directories. Below is the command that will list out the files and folders in the current directory in descending order.

Sort DESC in human-readable format

du -h | sort -h -r

 

Here is a great resource for additional du parameter options.

Text Replacement Not Working

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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 workaround using the Google Keyboard.

This is not ideal, but unless Apple releases an update, this is the best option. Once you install the Gboard, you should be able to use your text replacement shortcuts as before.

Hope this helps!

Curl gzip Website

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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 characters.

To get a readable response, you can add the –compressed options to your curl command.

curl --compressed https://www.amazon.com/

If you are using curl in PHP you can set the CURLOPT_ENCODING to an empty string.

curl_setopt($x, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '')

The contents of the “Accept-Encoding: ” header. This enables decoding of the response. Supported encodings are “identity”, “deflate”, and “gzip”. If an empty string, “”, is set, a header containing all supported encoding types is sent.