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I've been using the construct sudo run-parts /etc/update-motd.d/ to determine if recent system updates required a reboot.
Today I learned I can simply check for the existence of the file /var/run/reboot-required.
Determining if a reboot is required on Linux was originally published...

I was recently building something that was taking date input from an HTML form field, and casting it to a PHP DateTimeImmutable. I was then comparing that to another date, and got thrown off during testing when I compared the resulting instance to new...

I'm doing a little DB work recently, and needing to choose how to represent certain data in the database. For a few fields, ENUM would be the correct choice, but there's a possibility I would need to expand the ENUM later to add values.
My question: is this safe?...

I've been using the experimental "display: masonry" CSS for my gallery and a few other areas of my website for over a year (with a fallback to standard grid columns). However, I noticed in the last few months that my browser was no longer honoring it...