Bits By Me

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Here's the latest. View the Blog or Today I Learned… sections for more. I’ve also read great books that I recommend.

Today I Learned…

Whitelisting Pi-hole — Working with Pi-hole and a bit of sed.

GitHub CLI — Using the GitHub CLI to make authenticated and authorized download from a private repo.

OSS donations, fonts — Starting some micro-donations to open source developers. And a font.

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Recent Blog Posts

Pay It Forward

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I had a great chat with a college student about a career in tech. I thought I’d share some of the advice I gave them. It’s not going to change the world, but it might help someone.

Tracking program investments in SQLite

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Using SQLite to work with hierarchical data and learning about CTEs and data loading along the way.

Task for automation

automation tasks

Using task as a Make alternative for your automation tasks and wonderment.

SQLite and Go App

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Using Go and SQLite to munge YAML data for fun and profit…or for free.

Giving Actionable Feedback

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Feedback is a gift. But how do you provide feedback to someone while increasing the chance that the person can hear and maybe even act on what you’re sharing with them?

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