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# kill %1 || kill 1
When it REALLY needs to die.

I have never been more stressed out about writing 200 lines of code than my DNSSEC NSEC validation function 😭

Also, DNSSEC isn't as SEC as I initially assumed.

Have you ever wanted to stream video directly from one OBS Studio instance to another? With this one little trick it is trivial to set up!
thewoods.blog/obs-to-obs/

I am planning a dev stream while creating a linux distro from scratch, any advice? (no this isn't going to be a Debian/Arch variant)
thewoods.blog/projects/lin...

When not to create a new web service. Seriously, stop it. I have had this argument too many times so I just wrote it all down: thewoods.blog/svc-lib/

Decapitating GPT (no not that GPT, GUID Partition Table). I needed to do some direct manipulation of disk images and created a GPT header parser using nothing more than hexdump: thewoods.blog/gpt-header/

Have you ever just wanted to buy a decent website template rather than build your own for the 100th time? Every time I go looking I am miserably disappointed by the code quality and data factoring of "professional" templates. If you make website templates, PLEASE READ: thewoods.blog/ssg-templates/

If you work in data science, or more specifically with the Galaxy data pipeline platform, I have some great tricks for you! Most notably conditional branching in workflows: thewoods.blog/Galaxy-tips/

Spent some time writing a base64url encoder/decoder in Javascript that is as terse as possible while still being somewhat readable: thewoods.blog/base64url/

If you ever have to deal with a private git repo and Terraform there is a handy trick to pre-authenticate git before Terraform slams its head into the auth prompt: thewoods.blog/GitHub-Actio...

I wanted to take a vacation to Yellowstone. To plan ahead I did some data analysis of the park fill times so I wouldn't be left stranded at the gate: thewoods.blog/Yellowstone-...

Did a write up a while back for a O(1) algorithm to calculate an offset in a domain through recursive subdivision. This is handy for producing a series of colors that start as distinct as possible: thewoods.blog/Recursive-Su...