Adventures of a Technomancer

Here's a little script I wrote to extract a whole lot of .png files from a compiled sprite sheet. The python script reads the .bin file as binary, finds the starting header of a .png file (89504E47) and the footer (49454E44AE426082)

I bought a 0.2mm Micro Swiss nozzle for my 3D printer after the provided 0.4mm wasn't achieving the resolution I required for my up and coming keycap printing job, and I was having a painful time getting prints to come out

In early October I was approached by a teacher and friend to help create a simple low-cost terrarium for high-school students taking biology 101 or what might eventually become biotech 101. The idea behind the request was to teach students about photosynthesis

Have you ever thought to yourself ... > Gee, I wish I could focus more on my work and not get distracted by all these Slack and e-mail notifications and done something about it? By any chance did you install heyfocus [https://heyfocus.com/]? Because if

Here we are, after a few changes to the hardware, software and network it's time to see if all the hard work has paid off. In summary the things I changed where; * Decreased apache mpm servers * Installed fail2ban *

With the foundation (or 'Bedrock') of this upgrade complete it's time to see what some upgrades will do. The plan of attack is to change MySQL to MariaDB, upgrade PHP from 5.6 to 7.0 and upgrade the DO Droplet to something with

> Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that gets you started with the best development tools, practices, and project structure. This post will be a little light on descriptions as it's fairly straightforward to move an existing WordPress project into a Bedrock

Here's some awesome knowledge passed along from @bradleyfalzon [https://twitter.com/bradleyfalzon]. If you add CDPATH to ~/.zshrc you can tab complete into those directories without typing the full path. Very handy if you happen to run several vagrant instances or a verbose directory structure to mimic

Nicole of Bitten By the Travel Bug [http://bittenbythetravelbug.com/] has reported some issues with her WordPress install but is unsure as to what is breaking. The only message she sees is; Error establishing a database connection So into the terminal I dive, ssh-ing into

A good friend of mine, Nicole, runs a travel blog called Bitten By the Travel Bug [http://bittenbythetravelbug.com/] recently came to me with some WordPress troubles. Her WordPress install that deals with just under half a million hits per month is having a