Garrett Mills - Notes

For a while now, I've wanted a reproducible, representative Proxmox cluster to experiment with, without accidentally trashing my main cluster.

I have had/have used my Creality Ender 3 3D printer for nearly a decade now.

Google have announced that, starting September 2026, they will silently update every Android device to block apps from 3rd-party sources.

I swear this isn't a photography blog, I just think they're neat...

I've reached a milestone in my months-long project to convert this website over to the Eleventy static-site generator: the new site is now live!

Sticking with my approximately-annual tradition of redesigning this site, I've just switched over to a new design.

I've been dealing with data corruption on the Postgres server in my home lab.

I've published a new version of my markdown-based bookmark format, MarkMark.

World Plate Adventures is a lifetime exploration of international food.

Recently, CVE-2024-2961 was released which identifies a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU libc.

MarkMark is a free (as in freedom) bookmark format designed to be machine-readable and easy to use.

I've had a pretty stable shell setup consisting of Guake + Fish shell for ~5 years now.

Begrudgingly, I recently spent a bit of time playing around with ChatGPT and its prowess with the Coq proof-assistant language.

On a whim, I decided to redesign this site to have a bit more character.

Recently, I've been working on a distributed, parallel language called Swarm.

I recently upgraded to Fedora 36 and discovered that my VPN settings were completely broken and I couldn't re-import it from the .ovpn file.

I've been re-learning Docker and containerization and I decided to take the plunge and start converting my self-hosted environment over to Kubernetes.

Recently, I've been having a really annoying issue with my laptop keyboard where some keys require multiple presses or lots of force when pressed to register a key stroke.

How I (ab)used the TypeScript compiler to enable transparent runtime data validation using Zod and TypeScript interfaces.

Recently, I've been working on adding secure vaults for user secrets to my auth server project, CoreID.

One non-technical interest of mine is photography.

Between work and my personal lab, I write a lot of command-line tools to help automate various tasks.

I decided that it was time for a visual refresh of this site.

For the past few weeks, I've been reworking my analytics collection system with an eye to privacy.

Google announced recently that the beta version of their Chrome browser will include a new tracking system called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC).

For the past few years, I've been experimenting with various paradigms for DI in JavaScript and TypeScript.

Noded is a project I started at HackKU last year.

Roger Marshall, Kansas Senator-elect, has expressed his intention to vote not to certify the result of the 2020 presidential election.

For an open-note exam, I wanted a quick way to full-text search PDFs from the command-line.

I wanted a simple way to queue jobs to be run in the background without having to run a separate daemon.

For the last year or so, I've been working on converting an Ionic app to a progressive web app with offline support called Noded.

I'm trying to write down or save all the technical tricks, notes, and fixes I find.

With the current need to work from home, I've put together a list of tricks and tools I use to do my work as a software developer remotely, and discuss the challenges.

I recently made some tweaks to my website.

I recently released a small utility library for defining Vue components as proper ES6 classes, but in vanilla JavaScript.

I've built a simple Connect-4 webtoy as a project for EECS 368 at the University of Kansas.

In my never-ending quest to self-host all the things, I've deployed a combination of Gitea and Drone CI for a feature-for-feature, self-hosted alternative to GitHub.

I recently attended the annual University of Kansas hackathon, where me and a couple friends built Noded.

Flitter-DI is the second-generation dependency-injector used by the Flitter framework.

DI is a powerful pattern for segmenting code to keep it efficient and easy to reuse.

I've finally moved the home of my blog from Medium.com over to a self-hosted Hexo blog.

This release of Flitter's auth provider brings an OAuth2 server, OAuth2 client, and refinements to the login flow structure.

Recently I had the pleasure of presenting at the University of Kansas' Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis Weekly Colloquium.

In the third installment of my miniature-HPC series, we discuss OpenMPI, Python3, and running parallel jobs.