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I needed to convert some large PDF files into images for my wife. All of the free online converters had a file size limit of around 25 MB… but the files I was working with were a few hundred MB. Once again, Imagemagick comes to the rescue. Here’s how to do it:

At work, some of our projects keep test data in large JSON files. These files are usually structured as an array of objects, which can be thousands of lines long. When I need to make changes, manually find-and-replacing can only get me so far. I can get cleverer with vscode’s regex mode, but still, I am limited.

It’s no longer feasible to maintain this doc. Instead, see Get Docker.

In an excerpt from his book Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb lays out a conversation between Fat Tony and Socrates. My gut reaction when reading this was to defend Socrates. But after a few reads this gem soaked in: a person can know a thing well, and still explain it badly in words.

I agree, it shouldn’t be this hard. Alas.