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Timed posts with Pelican.
Late last year I posted that I'd migrated my website to a new blogging package called Pelican, which is a static site generator. If you noticed that my site's been screamingly fast lately, that's why....
View Article6 January 2021 was a security clusterfuck.
Note the first: I started working on this article last week, but didn't post it until now because I wanted to let all of the (usually astoundingly bad) hot takes die down. While I realize that the...
View ArticleNeologism: Reality segmentation violation
reality segmentation violation - noun phrase - A syndrome in which someone is so deep inside their own little world that any utterly mundane activity can provoke a combination of emotional upset,...
View ArticleNew decade, new TARDIS.
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the worst year in a long, long while was capped off by discovering that my car had been wrecked and towed without my knowing about it. I finally got the pictures I...
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Getting an ancient phone online in 2021.ev
Note: The more I worked on this article, the more I realized that it needed to be split into two separate articles. There was more ground to cover here than I originally thought. This article covers...
View ArticleOne year of COVID down.
Here we go again, this time 943 years.This time, I got nothin'.Many of the horrors of the last four years are over and not a few of us are sleeping much better, mostly because we have to spend less...
View ArticleOptimizing Searx with UWSGI.
Long time readers have probably read about some of the stuff I do with Searx and I hope that some of you have given some of them a try on your own. If you have you're probably wondering how I get the...
View ArticleCross-compiling go-sendxmpp.
I used to joke that the day setting up a cross-compilation environment was easy we'd be one short step away from having true artificial general intelligence. For the most part neither has happened yet....
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First .plan file update of 2021.
I have updated my .plan file file for the first time in 2021.ev. The usual warnings and caveats apply.
View ArticleMaking an oscilloscope kit suck less.
A couple of jobs ago I worked in an electronics lab that had all the toys - from tool cabinets as tall as I am to anti-static gear all over the place (and ruthlessly enforced rules for making use of...
View ArticleDistributing Huginn workers across servers.
For quite a few years I've written about strange and sundry things you can do with Huginn, but not a lot about what to do when you run into systemic limitations. The nice thing about Huginn is that you...
View ArticleNeologism: Stop
stop - adjective, humorous - Golang code written in a very un-Go-like style.Example: "The data structure in the new protocol shim was written with a very stop design pattern."
View ArticleTerminology: Blank
blank - noun - Someone who has scrubbed or never created any substantial presence on the Internet. No social media accounts (or deleted ones), no domains registered, no known e-mail addresses, no...
View ArticleI'm still here.
I'm still here. Still alive. No timed post this time.Tired as hell because my work/life balance has gone to hell in a handbasket. I think over a year of covid has finally started to affect the rest of...
View ArticleVaccinated.
Well, it's been a long couple of weeks since I've been able to post. Work has been eating me alive the entire time, but thankfully it's been leaving my wires alone so I at least have that much on the...
View ArticleIt doesn't seem like it ever ends.
It's been nearly a month since I've last had time to post anything here. Earlier I'd expressed hope that things would slow down and I'd have some compute cycles free to get my breath back, maybe go for...
View ArticleNeologism: Macgyver-Sherlock Effect
macgyver-sherlock effect - When it's far easier to improvise a solution to a problem than it is to find the people who're actually responsible for fixing it. A fairly normal state of affairs for very...
View ArticleNeologism: Octopus mud wrestling
octopus mud wrestling - A situation where multiple conflicting problems and solutions come together to prevent anyone from accomplishing anything useful. Every possible step toward a solution causes...
View ArticleInstalling Searx by hand.
In monitoring the Searx Github repository because I'm a pretty heavy user of this software, I've noticed a common trend. Folks seem to have a hard time getting the automatic installation script to work...
View ArticleBuilding a locksport box.
Longtime readers have probably noticed that I have an interest in locksport, or picking locks for the fun of it. As you might imagine, this requires a good deal of buying locks to practice on. From...
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