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My private blog drafts.

Youtube URL structures you should know

YouTube URL
YouTube URL

Knowing the basic structure and parameters in a YouTube URL can come in handy on the occasion you need it. Here’s how to find the video ID, link to a specific timestamp, and more.

The redesign of my website

Homepage on bbaovanc.com, using bobatheme.
Homepage on bbaovanc.com, using bobatheme.

For the past three weeks I’ve been designing and perfecting a new theme for my website with the goal of keeping it simple but not ugly.

Allow non root processes to bind to privileged ports in Linux

In Linux, processes cannot bind to privileged ports (<=1024) unless they are running as root. Here’s how to allow any process to bind to privileged ports.

Checkra1n GUI on other Linux distros

Checkra1n GUI running on Arch Linux
Checkra1n GUI running on Arch Linux

You can run the GUI version of checkra1n on non Debian-based distributions.

Put (edited) in the middle of a message in Discord

Example image
Example image

With a bit of trickery using the RLE character (U+202B), you can get the (edited) text on a message to be somewhere other than at the end of the message.