Ramblings of an Elder Nerd

A CC0 licensed proposal for Bambu Labs or anyone else to use to provide a secure binding between an embedded device with an on device UI and a local management application for access to privileged APIs

A helper script to create ACME DNS-01 validation entries on Porkbun's DNS service from TrueNAS

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Wherein we pick apart a spam voicemail and the way it tries to suck you in with escalating threats

thoughts about getting laid off and excitement for what lies ahead

On the game of Cracker Whistle, from Zoom

Wherein I ramble about surveillance capitalism and avoiding it as much as possible.

2023 Resolutions and shit

I needed some desk drawers, so I made them with my laser cutter

Wherein I profess my love for CI/CD

head desking with hugo

Time for the every few year effort to revive this blog.

The talk I gave about streamlined vendor review processes at Art into Science: A Conference on Defense 2020

Black Lodge Research Arduino Class

wherein a company does email marketing right by asking me to opt-in

I had to move off the server I'd been on for 10 years

Drobo saved my data's bacon

Thing I love about living in Seattle

It's funny what you find when you're doing renovations on your house.

In preparation for the Arduino Class I'm teaching this month at AS220 Labs, I made this breadboard template in Inkscape to make it easier to layout circuits for the presentations.

Posting this mostly as a reminder to myself for the next time I have to do this.

Archive of the Intro to Arduino Class I taught at AS220 in June 2009

Besides being a computer geek, I’m also a bit of a foodie.

I’d been wanting to pickup a Meggy Jr from the fine folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs for a while.

I’ve given this site a much overdue overhaul in terms of design.

My neighborhood is filthy with ice cream trucks.

I got interviewed by our local NBC affiliate, WJAR 10, about a month ago for a segment on over the air (OTA) HDTV.

I spent the better part of yesterday digging up about 24 square feet of the side yard to make room for a raised bed garden.

I think that it’s funny that Bare Bones Software (the makers of BBedit) have registered “It Doesn’t Suck” as a trademark.

I got a pleasant surprise this morning while I was making french toast for breakfast.

So… I went to Staples this morning to pick up some DVD-Rs.

I spent this past weekend at ShmooCon.

Having grown up in Rhode Island, I’ve heard the term ‘Swamp Yankee’ my whole life.

After missing the Doughty show last friday at The Call, I finally broke down a spent the big ten bucks on a Pollstar account.

Implementation Sticker Posted in Cambridge, England I spent last weekend participating in the Psy-Geo Provflux 2005 event here in Providence.

Love the Flock of Seagulls look!

The modernist prefab housing trend is gaining some traction in Germany.

Rick Santorum (R-PA) is floating a bill that would force the National Weather Service to hold back any of its data if it competed with a private sector company that also provides similar information.

A couple of years ago when we were looking for a new house, I had the pleasure of going through one house where they had no concept of keeping their house nice for potential buyers.

Apparently a number of folks who own Frank Lloyd Wright homes from his usonian period are having are hard time selling them.

My wife and I are sitting here having coffee early this fine November morning and listening to the sound of our neighbor Bill putting the garbage out for tomorrow’s collection.

This week at work, I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to get AIX installed on a couple of machines.

I was kind of bored on Sunday, so I figured I would try my hand at making an icon for Mac OS X.

Having spent way too much time over the last year cooped up in this house, we decided that we needed to start getting the hell out of the house more often.

Every day, around 4pm, our dog starts getting all excited because it’s almost his dinner time.

In a moment of utter boredom this morning, I was contemplating my navel lint.

Are you in need of X.509 certificates for your systems?