Evan Pratten

One of my favourite network devices in my posession is my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X, a small router that I have been using to tunnel homelab traffic to-and-from my main network.

This past Canada Day, I spent some time in the middle of nowhere with some friends.

The Ableton Move is a great little music-making device, both because it is genuinely good at what it does, and because it runs a fairly open build of Linux!

For whatever reason, I've long been interested in time synchronization technology.

I've recently been on a little side-quest to use biometric-backed SSH keys in more places.

I recently discovered Fuzix while falling down a rabbit hole of reading about people's hobby operating systems.

Recently, I've set up a Minecraft server for my friends.

Today, I took some time to experiment with tension-based instruments in Ableton, and paired them with some spatial reverb plugins I've been building.

Over the past few months, a small group of us at work have been experimenting with the Jujutsu Version Control System.

This past weekend, I watched my father perform at two local music nights.

nftables is one of those things I've been aware of for the past few years, but have never bothered actually putting the time into learning beyond knowing "its like iptables but better".

At the end of last year, I had the opportunity to get a small re-programmable dual-frequency Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) circuit implanted into my hand.

A recording of Suspension, a song from my new album: Far Fetched.

Over the years, I have lent out many NFC cards to friends for use as virtual business cards.

Gitea is an easy-to-use self-hosted Git service that I like using for personal projects.

I am never happy with my website.

In today's tinkering session, I experimented with feeding an electronic piano into a Micsocosm.

I have released my modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1.

Recently, my father and I took a trip out to a local provincial park for a weekend of camping.

I have released my modpack for Minecraft 1.20.6.

I happened to be poking through the AMPRNet gateway list today, and pretty much out of nowhere came up with the question: I wonder what networks most commonly house AMPR gateways?

Over the past few days, I, along with DraconicNEO have been flying around the sdf.org Minecraft server, caching chunks, and rendering them out into PNG tiles.

I have released my modpack for Minecraft 1.20.4.

Each morning, shortly after I've woken up, I receive an email.

Beside my desk, I have a bookshelf.

So you want to use OpenSCAD...

I use Git a lot.

Like many builders and users of custom mechanical keyboards, I make heavy use of the QMK keyboard firmware project.

Ableton was not built to run inside Wine.

I've recently been using my 3D printer to make cable organizers.

It recently occurred to me that Obsidian is capable of editing any type of markdown document store, not just its own note "Vaults".

I have released my modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1.

One of the most common emails I receive from readers of this website generally starts with: Subject: I got an AMPRNet allocation.

Whenever I start using a new tool/system/library, I tend to inadvertently follow this pattern: Do it "correctly" Do it myself Decide that doing it correctly was the right choice in the first place and switch back An example of this process is: I'll find m…

In my ever-continuing quest to do interesting things with custom keyboards, I recently had the idea to take the left half of my Ferris sweep and configure it specifically for use in the game Rainbow Six Siege.

I have released my modpack for Minecraft 1.20.0.

IKEA's KALLAX shelf has some holes drilled in it that are intended to be used for wall mounting with a 90-degree bracket.

Recently, my mouse (a Logitech M310) has been starting to give out on me, which I suppose is to be expected considering how much use my peripherals get, but is nevertheless annoying, considering that the failing component was the middle button, which I use

I have begun work on my Minecraft modpack for game version 1.19.4.

Sometimes I wonder how many people really use the amateur radio services I hear about.

Ok.

I extensively use WireGuard to keep various devices connected across foreign and unstable networks.

Yesterday, the IPv6 Canvas was pushed to the public.

Anyone who has been using Mastodon (or other ActivityPub servers) for a bit might have noticed how its a little annoying to look up someone's "home profile" from their account handle.

Today, I released a new command-line tool called gamels.

As a network operator, I keep a fairly close eye on what my peers are up to.