google.com/ncr - stop google geolocating automatically

GeoIP databases - which map IP addresses to geographic locations around the world - occasionally get it wrong, since VPN exit nodes, CDN edges, and shared infrastructure can move around. When GeoIP databases get out of sync with reality, you might end up somewhere you don’t expect by typing google.com and getting google.ca, or somewhere else.

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new machine setup

Whether it’s from regular lifecycling or a hardware issue, it is important to have a way to get yourself back up and running after a machine change. I used to use an Ansible playbook to do this, but I found the solution to be too clunky.

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some useful git aliases

Here’s a handy set of aliases for .gitconfig that can make working with many repos with different trunk names easier.

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