Ian Wagner
Using tar with Your Favorite Compression
Here's a fun one! You may already know that tarball is a pure archive format, and that any compression is applied to the whole archive as a unit. That is to say that compression is not actually applied at the file level, but to the entire archive. Th ... read more →
Delightfully Simple Pipelines with Nushell
I've been using nushell as my daily driver for about six months now, and wanted to show a few simple examples of why I'm enjoying it so much. I think it's a breath of fresh air compared to most shells. Why a new Shell? In case you've never heard of i ... read more →
Faster SSH File Transfers with rsync
If you're a developer or sysadmin, there's a pretty good chance you've had to transfer files back and forth. Back in the old days, you may have used the ftp utility or something similar (I think my first one was probably CuteFTP). Then you probably t ... read more →
My Current Favorite Headphones (and Amp) for Listening
It occurred to me that things which work well are often under-represented online. I absolutely love my listening headphones, so I thought I'd write a quick post about them. To say I love music is an understatement. My iTunes... er... Apple Music libr ... read more →
Elecom Deft Pro - Two Months In
It's not quite two months in, but I said I'd give an update on the Elecom Deft Pro after some use, so here I am! Bad Stuff Bad news first... Initial Adjustment Period I'm not gonna lie, the initial adjustent period on this was rougher than I expected ... read more →
Korean Music Beyond K-Pop Demon Hunters
Pretty much overnight, it seems that a movie I had never even heard of became the most-watched movie ever on Netflix. People everywhere are now singing the songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters. It originally seemed more popular outside Korea (the first doz ... read more →
Const Assertions
I'm currently working on a project which involves a lot of lower level data structures. By lower level I mean things like layout and bit positions, and exact sizes being important. As such, I have a number of pedantic lints enabled. One of the lints ... read more →
Elecom Deft Pro - First Impressions
I recently picked up a new trackball to replace my prematurely aging Elecom HUGE. Here are my first impressions after only a few hours, since there wasn't much I could find online comparing them properly. NOTE: I have an updated review after ~2 month ... read more →
Finishing Dragonball in Korean
Over the past few days of vacation I finally had the chance to finish reading Dragonball! I started this a few years ago and have gone in spurts, sometimes not reading for months at a time as work got in the way. This post is a short reflection on wh ... read more →
Unzip, UTF-8, Docker, and C Locales
Today's episode of "things that make you go 'wat'" is sponsored by unzip. Yes, the venerable utility ubiquitous on UNIX-like systems. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? This morning I was minding my own business sipping a coffee, when su ... read more →