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Early Flickr
Friday, 17 Nov 2023
In 1998, I moved back to Seattle after living in Long Island, NY for 4 years. I had managed to wrangle a DSL internet connection from my previous employer, and had set up a domain, which was running o…
Multi-device RSS reading
Sunday, 16 Jul 2023
I see a lot of questions about how one can keep RSS readers synced across devices in a self-hosted way. Here is a description and a step by step process of how I have set this up for myself. Rather th…
Disinterest
Tuesday, 4 Jul 2023
I used to get annoyed and dejected when it seemed like the senior leadership in my company, department, or organization seemed to take little interest in the projects that my team and I were working o…
Surprising Richness from Simplicity
Wednesday, 12 Apr 2023
Recently I have been tinkering with RSS feeds in code, initially working on code to fetch and store the feeds, so that later I could play around with ways to present and organize feeds and entries. Th…
TOFU? STFU!
Friday, 24 Mar 2023
This morning was one of those popcorn-for-breakfast days when the tech world learns about some impactful security event with a package or resource that is depended upon by many teams across many compa…
Cable Management Hack
Thursday, 29 Dec 2022
I have a desk that has a very nice, metal cable management grille attached to the rear legs, which is one of the reasons I bought the desk. What I found though is that over time, it just became a very…
Obligatory Colophon
Wednesday, 21 Dec 2022
A few notes on history and how this site is put together. In 2001, I discovered and embraced the weblog phenomenon, and maintained a personal blog, running on a dusty linux box under my desk, likely i…
Signing Is Not Trivial
Thursday, 15 Dec 2022
I hear something akin to the following a lot: “This problem is simply solved by (cryptographic) signing.” Over the last half-decade, I’ve always responded in the moment with a laundry list of all of t…
Escher-inspired Tesselations With Marked Tiles
Monday, 31 Oct 2022
Some while ago (during or not too long after my college years), I found the following page in a collection of M.C. Escher’s notebooks, describing overlapping motifs on tiles, which, when arranged in v…