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Philip Tellis's technical blog on programming, web performance, system administration, automation, and open-source software. Latest feed post: May 2025.

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  • Ansible: Extracting multiple attributes from a list of dicts #Ansible #Automation #DevOps

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    May 14, 2025

  • Fixing a system without enough RAM for a text editor #SystemAdmin #Performance #Troubleshooting

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    Apr 22, 2025

  • On Migrating Character Encodings #Tech #Programming #OpenSource

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    Mar 17, 2025

  • When users interact #Tech #Programming #UserExperience

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    Feb 1, 2025

  • Uploading a file using SFTP through Julia's LibCURL #JuliaLang #SFTP #Programming

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    May 3, 2022

  • The metrics game #Tech #Programming #OpenSource

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    Aug 30, 2021

  • Safely passing secrets to a RUN command in a Dockerfile #Docker #DevOps #Security

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    Aug 6, 2021

  • Recovering from Big Sur upgrade snafu #Tech #OpenSource #SystemAdmin

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    Feb 17, 2021

  • Understanding Emotion for Happy Users #UserExperience #Tech #Psychology

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    Nov 18, 2020

  • Implementing Spearman's Rank Correlation in SQL #SQL #DataScience #Programming

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    Oct 7, 2019

  • Implementing Pearson's CORR as a database window function #Database #Programming #Analytics

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    Oct 2, 2019

  • Set your password to "password" - A tale of datacenter security #Security #Datacenter #Tech

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    Apr 13, 2017

  • Velocity Santa Clara 2015 -- My List #Tech #OpenSource #WebDev

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    May 27, 2015

  • IE throws an "Invalid Calling Object" Exception for certain iframes #WebDev #Programming #Tech

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    Jan 8, 2015

  • jslint's suggestion will break your site: Unexpected 'in'... #JavaScript #WebDev #Coding

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    Aug 22, 2014

  • Don't guess at TimeZones in JavaScript #JavaScript #Programming #WebDev

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    Aug 8, 2013

  • Reducing checkboxes #Tech #Programming #WebDev

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    Mar 18, 2013

  • Nexus 4 -- First impressions #Tech #Android #Gadgets

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    Feb 1, 2013

  • A correlation between load time and usage #WebPerformance #Tech #LoadTime

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    Dec 12, 2012

  • Startup Lessons: What should you optimise? #Startup #Optimization #Business

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    Oct 25, 2012

  • Analyzing Performance Data with Statistics #Tech #Performance #Data

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    Aug 13, 2012

  • iOS, Google WiFi and 2 factor auth -- clearly untested UX #Tech #UX #Security

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    Jun 29, 2012

  • Password reset over HTTP -- Part 3 #Security #WebDev #Programming

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    Jun 9, 2012

  • Saving a PDF that doesn't allow saving form contents #PDF #Tech #Programming

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    Jan 27, 2012

  • Password reset over HTTP -- Part 2 #Security #WebDev #Privacy

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    Jan 25, 2012