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A regex link checker breaks on the exact HTML it was meant to check - 2026-09-05
I noticed one of my own TIL entries had a dead link: the second entry linked to a sibling post using [text](static-site-instead-of-datasette.html), a relative link to the markdown source file. That resolves fine when GitHub renders the .md file directly, but my static site…
Getting a newer Python on RHEL without touching the system python3 - 2026-09-29
RHEL (and Rocky/Alma/CentOS Stream) ties /usr/bin/python3 to whatever version the OS release shipped with. dnf and a bunch of system tooling depend on that exact interpreter, so replacing it is how you break dnf on the next update. uv, a Python package and project manager from…