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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…