Rob Hoelz articles - 24 total
Avoiding spurious wakeups with my ThinkPad X1 Yoga
Last year I bought myself a ThinkPad X1 Yoga to use as my personal laptop - I've been pretty happy...
Random zsh tips
Random zsh tips My friend fREW and I both use zsh, and we've picked up a number of tricks...
Discovering your Prometheus via PromQL
Discovering your Prometheus via PromQL Knowing about all the metrics available on a Promet...
What do you do with five minute chunks of time?
What do you do with five minute chunks of time? During my morning planning today, I was th...
Save time by focusing on the result - using Prometheus' textfile collector to avoid writing an exporter
Save time by focusing on the result - using Prometheus' textfile collector to avoid writing...
Surprising Logic in the Firefox Codebase
Surprising Logic in the Firefox Codebase Recently, I was curious about how Firefox's reade...
Making Slack go slack-jawed: reducing the mental load around Slack notifications
Making Slack go slack-jawed: reducing the mental load around Slack notifications As I ment...
A little mistake I made in Go
A little mistake I made in Go I was working on a little Go project last night a few night...
Using udev to disable my infrared camera on Linux
Using udev to disable my infrared camera on Linux My work laptop has two cameras - one of...
Strategies, Observations, and Open Questions for Working From Home
With the COVID-19 crisis forcing more people to sequester themselves at home and work remotely, there...
Using SQLite's fsdir to effect a quick search index
Use two commands to build a search index that understands the nuances of English better than grep -R!
Unsung Heroes of the Command Line
Some lesser-known command line programs I find repeatedly useful
Papers We Love: Raft
Welcome back to Papers We Love! This week, we'll be dipping our toes into the waters of distributed...
Papers We Love - Reflecting on Trusting Trust
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first paper of Papers We Love! @thejessleigh was kind enough to...
SQLite Types: To Affinity And Beyond
Avoid getting trapped by one of SQLite's little quirks
Combining Character Caveats
How do combining characters in Unicode impact how you process Unicode text?
Repository-Specific Ignored Files in Git
See how to tell Git to ignore files without affecting your fellow contributors' gitignore!
Quickly Change Directory to the Repo You Just Cloned
Learn how to shave off some keystrokes to boost your command line efficiency!
SSH Shortcuts
Save time when using SSH by tweaking your SSH configuration!
Using Two Different Protocols for the Same Git Remote
Save yourself some authentication headaches when you just want to git-fetch
Finding the other end of a pipe on Linux
Let's look through kernel code and see if we can find out who we're talking to!
Adding Remote Shortcuts to Git
Create custom prefixes for Git remote URLs
Using AWS Lambda to improve Lambda Error Reports
In this post, we'll cover how Lambda handles errors with dead letter queues, go over Cloudwatch logs, and discover some pitfalls that you can run into while doing development for Lambda.
Lazily Evaluated Learning
This one simple trick, discovered by a Rob, can help you keep up in tech!