Victoria Drake

is the software developer who recently wrote these articles.

coding How to print newlines in command line output
String interpolation quirks to consider when printing escape sequences for humans.
cybersecurity The care and feeding of an IoT device
Why IoT devices are, basically, puppies, and whether or not you should give somebody one for Christmas.
linux Bash and shell expansions: lazy list-making
A tour of brace expansion, shell parameter expansions, and playing with substrings in Bash.
cybersecurity A cron job that could save you from a ransomware attack
How a simple scheduled job can help you quickly recover from ransomware.
data Publishing GitHub event data with GitHub Actions and Pages
A guide to overcoming the GitHub event data horizon with a little command-line magic.