Christopher Simpson

Christopher Simpson

Interested in: Building, async communication, open source history, teaching, learning, and business. Note: I struggle with spelling please feel free to message with corrections.
06
Jan
Photo by Greg Lloyd 1969, Photo of Hypertext Editing System (HES) console at Brown University, circa October 1969.

How to search backwards on tmux

How to search backwards/upwards on tmux. To enable tmux scroll back history press: Ctrl + b and then [. That'
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29
Dec
SaaS Development at Subscribie Lessons Observed

SaaS Development at Subscribie Lessons Observed

Log everything, except when you shouldn't Logging in python has always confused me. It takes a long time
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28
Dec
Make Playwright faster: experimenting with containers and build caching on Github actions

Make Playwright faster: experimenting with containers and build caching on Github actions

GitHub - KarmaComputing/playwright-testingContribute to KarmaComputing/playwright-testing development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubKarmaComputing Background: We started using Playwright
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10
Dec
How can a process run with or without a tty, what's the difference?

How can a process run with or without a tty, what's the difference?

A process can be associated with or run in the context of a TTY, which provides a text-based interface for
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23
Sep
Openai Whisper Automated AI Transcribing & Translation is here?  (and how badly I speak French)

Openai Whisper Automated AI Transcribing & Translation is here? (and how badly I speak French)

We've all tried to manually transcribe audio at some point- it takes ages! But what if computers could
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13
Sep
[remote rejected] (refusing to allow an OAuth App to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/...` without `workflow` scope)

[remote rejected] (refusing to allow an OAuth App to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/...` without `workflow` scope)

Github OAuth apps now require the 'workflow' scope when performing operations such as pushing a new workflow to
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09
Sep
Install Podman with --mount=type=cache support from source Ubuntu LTS 22.04

Install Podman with --mount=type=cache support from source Ubuntu LTS 22.04

Based on official docs: https://podman.io/getting-started/installation#building-from-scratch podman version 4 supports --mount type=cache for each container
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30
Aug
Deploy Human Capital not 'apps'

Deploy Human Capital not 'apps'

There is very little left which we cannot automate: tax, processes, predictions, article writing...  most processes humans do, for the
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01
Jul
Login to websites with your fingerprint - webauthn a passwordless future

Login to websites with your fingerprint - webauthn a passwordless future

Crucially this webstandard has representation from Apple (Jiewen Tan), which is critical for adoption across platforms- WebRTC took a long
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21
Jun
How to write a secure container

How to write a secure container

So, how do you write a secure container? Rule 1: Know where your data is coming from Common things to
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