Month: March 2025

Expect the unknowns

In 2002 Donald Rumsfeld made this statement about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there…

March 21, 2025
MacOS/UNIX tip of the day: Opening many urls at once

Today I needed to use a tool to look up information about 30 or so blogs at work. The tool is a web-based internal tool, which accepts a blog_id as a parameter in the url. I used some UNIX magic to extract these from some other information, so that I had a simple list in…

March 13, 2025

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