Yesterday I wrote a script to create backups for my server. Just when I ran the script, I realised it would take an hour to complete.

It was 7pm. I needed to leave for home.

I cursed myself for not doing bgrun bash backup.sh instead of bash backup.sh.

The thing is bgrun doesn’t exist.

The closest thing I found was:
nohup your_command > output.log 2>&1 & disown.

Let’s break it down:

• nohup = no hangup
• your_command = anything like bash backup.sh
• > output.log = put the output of the …

A bad carpenter blames his tools

I implemented metaWeblog APIs on this blog over the weekend. This allows me to use MarsEdit (or any other blogging tool) for writing posts.

I remember using Microsoft’s Live Writer a lot in the early days. The desktop interface reduces the friction of opening a webpage, logging in, and navigating various menus. I created my own blogging system to avoid the ever-growing complexity of WordPress. Still it is a multi-step work to write. MarsEdit removes this need for a browser and provides focus on writing.

What to write …

• First, our hard-disk got filled due to access logs
  
• Then our hard-disk got filled due to too many open files error logs
  
• Various services started hitting file descriptor limits
  
• The system started dropping packets and killing connections as the connections table got full
  

Is it a DDoS?

sudo netstat -nta …

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden …

• HasGeek is free.
  
• It automatically sends the reminders for the events.
  
• It allows us to broadcast messages before and after the event. This is …

Squarespace Billing Nuisance

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021.

remote: Please see https://docs.github.com/get-started/getting-started-with-git/about-remote-repositories#cloning-with-https-urls for information on currently recommended modes of authentication.

fatal: Authentication failed

Fix