Everything Burns

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  • Early Flickr

    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

    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

    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

    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!

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…

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