Matt Stenson

This is the personal site of Matt Stenson. I'm a programmer, nerd, mountain biker, skier and outdoors enthusiest. I'll blog about different stuff here. I like open software and privacy focused tools.

Posts

My Weekly Listening

I thought it would be fun to share the podcasts that I currently listen to almost every episode of. These have a wide range of topics including #skiing #mtb #linux #dev #tech etc. Read More…

Open SSL Vulnerability

Looks like many people who are on LTS releases have dodged a bullet with the new OpenSSL vulnerability. The vulnerability reportedly only affect version 3+ of OpenSSL. Read More…

Why Social Feeds Suck

Teaching Kids to Code: App Inventor

My 10 year old son recently asked to start doing some coding for school. He’s done some LEGO Boost projects in the past so I was looking for something that would be a bit more interesting. Read More…

Cleaning Facebook and Twitter With UBlock

Ublock Origin has a handy feature that allows you to build custom fields in addition to their standard ad blocking abilities. Read More…

The Strongest Argument for Decentralized Tech May Be Security

Twitter got hacked real good last night. From all appearances it doesn’t appear to be a technical hack, but a social engineering hack of employees with almost limitless access to the platform. Read More…

Climbing South Hayden

My wife and I decided to try something new over the weekend. We attempted to summit the relatively remote Hayden Mountain. Read More…

B2 Caching Control

Backblaze B2 storage and Cloudflare have a partnership that allows free egress from B2 storage through the Cloudflare CDN. What this means in effect is free bandwidth for serving your images and videos. Read More…

Docker Slider

This slider in the Mac GUI for Docker kind of makes me sad. We start at 59.6GB. A click magically changes it to 21. Read More…

NEW.CSS - CSS Without Classes

Look at the source of many modern websites and you’ll see something like this: <body class="home page-template page-template-page-templates page-template-front-page page-template-page-templatesfront-page-php page page-id-13 template-front"> <div id="container"> <header id="masthead" class="cf" role="banner"> <nav id="header-top-nav"> <ul id="menu-footer-social" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-40" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-40"><a href="https://facebook. Read More…

A Modern, Retro Blog Workflow

I recently experimented with moving this blog from WordPress to a simpler system in Tumblr. However, this setup never felt great and still felt “overtooled” for the task at hand. Read More…

Unplugging My Phone

I recently dropped my phone… and cracked it really good. I’m cheap when it comes to tech and I’d rather be buying dirt bikes and mountain bikes. Read More…

How we have been handling social distancing

PIP has been enabled on desktop Firefox

Macbook Keyboards

The new 16″ macbook pro laptop was recently announced with a “new” keyboard. And by “New” apple basically means the old, good keyboard. Read More…

iPhone 5s

This past week while on a trip we had a phone die which meant I needed to switch to an IPhone 5s. Read More…

Mac Bluetooth Quality

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208896 Huh, never knew this before. If you have an app open on your Mac that utilizes your mic audio quality from other apps over bluetooth will be reduced. Read More…

Moving Apps

Mind Blown: It makes so much more sense, but it seems like there could be some kind of visual indication that this is the way to do it. Read More…

Add LL command to MAC OS

Ever want to have the ll command to view file permissions, ownership and other details in a terminal session. MacOS does not come with this command by default. Read More…

Convert String to Base64 in Visual Studio Code

I work with .eml files pretty often that have base64 encoded data in their body. By default base64 is not human readable so converting it quickly in my editor is handy. Read More…

Display Date and Time of Single Day or Multi Day Events With Blade

I recently needed to display the date and time of a start and end date for a Laravel project. Up front I don’t know if the start and end date/time are on the same day or a different day. Read More…

Git changelog for particular line numbers

I often need to go spelunking through code that predates my work on the codebase. Sometime looking through the commit history for a large file can be rather overwhelming if there are lots of commits not related to the particular section of the file you are interested in. Read More…

Open File With App From MacOS Terminal

Sometimes I like to open up a text file in a robust gui text editor on my mac while I am working in the terminal. Read More…

Owning Content

So I’m reviving my personal site. In the past I was worried about owning the storage of my content so I self hosted this site on wordpress, which is honestly a pain for just wanting to write some stuff every so often. Read More…

Replace a string inside of a MYSQL field

I recently needed to replace part of a URL found inside the body HTML of a page that was stored in a MySQL column. Read More…

Splitting Large Log Files

Every so often you run into a log file that doesn’t have a log rotation set up and has grown so large that it is near impossible to open in many editors. Read More…
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