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Taking On Art History For My Second Major

Happy April Fools’ Day, all! As some may have guessed, I am not in fact adding a second major just a month before my graduation. As much I do appreciate the beauty of art, I am not nearly dedicated...

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Jetpack Sharing Links Revisited

A few months ago I posted about how to shorten WordPress Jetpack sharing links. Today, I would like to revisit this topic and provide a cleaner solution that I recently uncovered. Unlike the previous...

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The Importance of Sanitizing Input Strings

As a young programmer, it’s easy for me to forget that, unlike in the academic programming environment, it is vital that I protect my programs against any and all potential attacks. Recently I realized...

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SMS On Command Line

Sometimes we as tech nerds like to do things just because we can. This is an example of exactly that. In an age where practically everyone who hasn’t been under a rock for the past decade has a...

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Accurately Track Your Dynamic IP With Text Messages

A few weeks ago, I posted about how to send SMS messages via command line. Today, as promised, I am going to follow up on that post by providing a practical use for this functionality. My current setup...

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Tunneling Through the Great Firewall of China

Among the things that the People’s Republic of China is known for is the Great Wall of China, however, we tech nerds also associate the country with the Great Firewall of China (GFW). The GFW,...

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OS-Agnostic Ghostscript Detection

In developing one of my more popular WordPress plugins, Document Gallery, I was faced with a challenge that stumped me for a bit. Recently, some of my users had asked for additional functionality to...

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Removing COM Module from Honeywell UtilityPRO

A few weeks ago, my apartment complex installed new UtilityPRO programmable thermostats in all of the units. As part of the CPS Energy Peak Saver program. Quite a convenient little gadget, but a little...

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The Downside of the WordPress Plugin Directory

One of the most powerful and useful parts of WordPress and other popular CMS software offerings is the seemingly endless number of available plugins to extend functionality in nearly any way you like....

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FFmpeg Supported MIME Types

I’m shocked… Maybe I’m missing some well-hidden FFmpeg flag, but for the life of me I can’t find a way to pull out the supported MIME types. There are some commands that come sort of close, but not...

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Tunneling Through the Great Firewall of China Again

Nearly two years ago now, I wrote about tunneling through the Great Firewall of China (GFW). I recently revisited this topic and wanted to give a more detailed walkthrough of the process I took to make...

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Jetpack Sharing Links Revisited

A few months ago I posted about how to shorten WordPress Jetpack sharing links. Today, I would like to revisit this topic and provide a cleaner solution that I recently uncovered. Unlike the previous...

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The Importance of Sanitizing Input Strings

As a young programmer, it’s easy for me to forget that, unlike in the academic programming environment, it is vital that I protect my programs against any and all potential attacks. Recently I realized...

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Image may be NSFW.
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SMS On Command Line

Sometimes we as tech nerds like to do things just because we can. This is an example of exactly that. In an age where practically everyone who hasn’t been under a rock for the past decade has a...

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Accurately Track Your Dynamic IP With Text Messages

A few weeks ago, I posted about how to send SMS messages via command line. Today, as promised, I am going to follow up on that post by providing a practical use for this functionality. My current setup...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Tunneling Through the Great Firewall of China

Among the things that the People’s Republic of China is known for is the Great Wall of China, however, we tech nerds also associate the country with the Great Firewall of China (GFW). The GFW,...

View Article

OS-Agnostic Ghostscript Detection

In developing one of my more popular WordPress plugins, Document Gallery, I was faced with a challenge that stumped me for a bit. Recently, some of my users had asked for additional functionality to...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Removing COM Module from Honeywell UtilityPRO

A few weeks ago, my apartment complex installed new UtilityPRO programmable thermostats in all of the units. As part of the CPS Energy Peak Saver program. Quite a convenient little gadget, but a little...

View Article

The Downside of the WordPress Plugin Directory

One of the most powerful and useful parts of WordPress and other popular CMS software offerings is the seemingly endless number of available plugins to extend functionality in nearly any way you like....

View Article

FFmpeg Supported MIME Types

I’m shocked… Maybe I’m missing some well-hidden FFmpeg flag, but for the life of me I can’t find a way to pull out the supported MIME types. There are some commands that come sort of close, but not...

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