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Tyler Cipriani

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’10’15’20’25
Posts
168 from 25 Mar 2007 to 28 May 2026
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now and then (3 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 2

  1. Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve
  2. GitHub Actions is a trap

2025 3

  1. The future of large files in Git is Git
  2. Per-project git commit templates
  3. Boox Go 10.3, two months in

2024 10

  1. Eventually consistent plain text accounting
  2. Git commit hashes that spark joy
  3. GitHub's Legacy of Terrible Code Review
  4. Git the stupid password store
  5. Hexadecimal Sucks
  6. My Remote Desk, 2024
  7. My eclipse photography plan
  8. Eternal shell history 🐢
  9. Framework DIY 13 AMD review ⚙️
  10. Treats from git's contrib tools🍭

2023 18

  1. Racy git magic
  2. Daylight confusion week
  3. Pull requests make CI harder
  4. Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck
  5. Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥
  6. Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
  7. Well-crafted grocery lists
  8. Please stop writing email like mail
  9. Monitoring my indoor air quality
  10. What I've learned about data visualization
  11. Write every day: my AlphaSmart fail
  12. Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto
  13. GitHub private repos considered private-­ish
  14. Just stop adding people.
  15. Books I can remember
  16. Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️
  17. The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee ☕
  18. Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions

2022 24

  1. Reading in 2022
  2. Writing raft
  3. Home temperature monitoring on the cheap
  4. Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature
  5. A tech lead guide to manager powers 🧙
  6. f.lux, but for your house
  7. GitHub's missing merge option
  8. Staging is a trap
  9. The purpose of SaaS is selling out
  10. Fixing delivery: a guide for engineering managers
  11. Meshtastic: A Review
  12. How I built a running habit
  13. Sock🧦 nerdery🤓
  14. Cool desktops don’t change 😎
  15. On the Proper use of Post-Its®
  16. Explaining git diff to myself
  17. I've Used All The Notebooks
  18. The Unreasonable Fight for Municipal Broadband
  19. My Home Assistant Music Cube
  20. Code Review Decision Fatigue
  21. Why I blog
  22. Repos that always pass their tests
  23. On the term “Blameless Postmortem”
  24. Job Interviews By Zombies

2021 7

  1. Useful photography for beginners
  2. Lessons from seven years of remote work
  3. Writing Skills for Engineering Managers
  4. The Deployment Fidelity Problem
  5. Code Review is Work
  6. Command Line HDR Image Processing
  7. Getting better at the New York Times crossword

2020 6

  1. Git squash is not nice history
  2. Migrating git data with rsync
  3. Buying a house 🏠 in 2020
  4. Humaning a Bowie Dog
  5. polymorphism
  6. UNIX Permissions for Dummies

2019 5

  1. The Square Knot
  2. Be Kind in Code Review
  3. Maintaining MediaWiki User Scripts via Git
  4. Reese the Cat
  5. Of Git Commits, GitHub, and Gerrit

2018 7

  1. CI Files in Their Own Namespace
  2. Halloween Nerd Projects 👻
  3. Git Advice
  4. Reverse Polish Notation, Lambdas, and Currying in Python
  5. 2012
  6. Bloop! Audible Error Logs
  7. Using AWK like grep with envvars

2017 9

  1. 2017 by the numbers
  2. Ssh Key Fingerprints, Identicons, and ASCII art
  3. Topographical Sorting in Golang
  4. Offline spellcheck
  5. The Rsync Algorithm in Python
  6. Literate Vimrc
  7. Deterministic Turing Machine in Python
  8. What I Told the FCC
  9. Yearly Reading: Done and To Do

2016 28

  1. Book Review: CODE by Charles Petzold
  2. Coreboot on the ThinkPad X220 with a Raspberry Pi
  3. My Remote Desk
  4. Book Review: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin
  5. Git Annex Metadata Filtered Views
  6. The 14KB in the TCP Initial Window
  7. Git-Config Colors and Include
  8. Why I Will Continue to Use Linode
  9. What is Code Review?
  10. ImageMagick to Extract a PDF Page
  11. Git Revision Colon Slash
  12. Delete Local Git Commits
  13. sensible-editor
  14. GPG Security things
  15. Lowering the Barrier to Blogging
  16. Bash Completion
  17. (ab)Using Git Notes
  18. Updates around here
  19. Books Read (so far) in 2016
  20. GNU Autotools
  21. Ikiwiki things
  22. Mutt
  23. Bitlebee/IRC info
  24. VHS to MP4 on Linux
  25. Beaglebone Black Setup on Debian 8
  26. neovim on debian
  27. Visualizing Git’s Merkle DAG with D3.js
  28. Command-Timing-Bash-Prompt

2015 7

  1. GPG Things
  2. AWS Cloudfront SSL Cert
  3. Asus debian jessie install
  4. Cucumber tests getting started
  5. Puppet, apt-get-update, source-lists, and Dumbness
  6. Git annex notes
  7. Toward a More Useful X Keyboard

2014 5

  1. Conway’s Favicon
  2. Cross-Browser JavaScript Scrollbar Detection
  3. Development Environments with Vagrant, Docker, and Supervisord
  4. Create a Baller/Useful MOTD with ANSI Art
  5. Replacing Jekyll with Pandoc and a Makefile

2013 4

  1. Knowledge Nuggets From My Tmux.conf
  2. Dotfile Boilerplate
  3. Installing Vim from source on CentOS 6.3
  4. Vim, the OSX clipboard and Tmux

2012 7

  1. My ZSH (and bash) prompt
  2. Integrating git with your existing website
  3. Using Amazon Product Advertising API to Grab Album Art
  4. CSS display inline-block Extra Margin/Space
  5. Library Thing(s)
  6. To Read
  7. Website Contrast Ratio in Practice

2011 1

  1. Alt-Numpad for Linux

2009 7

  1. Just Got A New Squeezebox
  2. Ninja Assassin
  3. Terroir
  4. field-notes-notebooks
  5. July 1, 2009
  6. Why Is There So Much Unemployment in a Depression?
  7. June 12, 2009

2007 18

  1. Boring Friday? Make Paper Airplanes.
  2. My Favorite Bookmarklets
  3. Write uʍop ǝpısdn
  4. Wayback Machine Fun
  5. Veoh for the Blogger Out-of-the-Know
  6. Navigate Your Computer the Easy Way
  7. The Meraki Solar Powered WiFi Kit
  8. Find Your Phone When You've Got No Friends!
  9. Steampunk No.2 is Here (and it's still free)
  10. Troubleshoot Firefox Multimedia Plugins
  11. Tech Blog of the Week? Me? That's Cool.
  12. Optimize Firefox Part I: A New Hope for Search
  13. Free Online Linux Courses
  14. Tyler Keeps You Posted
  15. Fantastic Five: The 5 Best Search Engines Besides Google
  16. Freeme - An Introduction to Open Source
  17. Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief
  18. Best Thing(s) of All Time Ever.