Igor47's Blog

I administer several Linux desktop and server machines, and it's been useful to let claude handle administration tasks for me.

I occasionally need to allow some external service to interact with code that's running on my laptop.

It's basically impossible to get high-CBD chocolate.

This is a post about how to preserve your privacy and avoid spam while still supporting Democratic campaigns and movements.

I've got some Christmas lights on the front of my house.

The last few months, I've been working on CSheet, my LLM-assisted DnD-5e character sheet tracker.

We're in a critical moment for the climate. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and we're continuing to hit devastating climate disasters.

A Solar-powered EV at Burning Man 2024 For burning man 2024, I had two goals which sadly remain kind of unusual in 2024: Drive my EV there Power my camp with solar panels As an auxiliary goal, remembering the crippling heat of 2022, I was hoping to be able

Note: This is an old NowNowNow post!

In October, I completed ASA104 with Modern Sailing.

TL;Dr: store your secrets in git alongside your compose.yml file.

Note: There is a previous post, about my uncle.

I embarked on a yak shave so epic, it resulted in me writing an entire URL shortening service in rust.

I confirmed my pre-order for my Rivian R1S in February 2019.

Note: This is cross-posted to the Recoolit blog.

Note: This is cross-posted to the Recoolit blog.

In Cory Doctorow's book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, the main character (Jules) has this to say about himself: [my compulsion] was Beating The Crowd, finding the path of least resistance, filling the gaps, guessing the short queue, dodging the traff…

I was at Burning Man 2022 when I heard that my dear friend Peter was, initially, in critical condition.

I was born in Mykolaiv, Ukrain.

Language shapes thought -- a.k.a, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

I've been spending a bunch of time, both personally, and professionally, thinking about the clean energy transition and "kitchen table decisions".

I started a new job, and this job came with a new computer -- an Apple M1 MacBook.

After encountering some issues with Ubuntu on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th-gen, I went back to Arch linux.

If you, like me, live in the Bay Area, you may have woken up to something like this last week: This is my back yard, but things looked just as dire in the house: If you checked a website, like PurpleAir or AirNow, you would see scary numbers and dire warn…

From December 2018 until May of 2020, I worked as a software engineer at Aclima.

You might already be using multi-factor authentication (MFA) for logins to your AWS account.

When I was at Airbnb, I learned a lot about how to scale a website.

Syncthing is a file synchronization tool.

You install raspbian on a brand-new Raspberry Pi.

I've been on a climate-change book-reading spree lately.

Can your individual action make a difference for climate change?

The cover story on NYT today is headlined "Profitable Giants like Amazon Pay $0 in Taxes, and Voters are Sick of It".

When Let's Encrypt became available, I moved most of the vHosts I run on this web server behind HTTPS.

The Spa was a project for False Profit's Priceless event in 2017.

April 3rd, 2017 was my last day at Airbnb.

Recently, I wanted the ability to more reliably check email while on my phone.

I've been running a personal Linux server for just about ten years.

I'm a technologist -- someone who builds tools and systems.

Party people, we need to talk.

I recently had heart surgery to fix a leaky mitral valve.

I recently became locked out of my StackOverflow account.

I am one of the primary authors of Airbnb's SmartStack, which is composed of two pieces: nerve and synapse.

Your public domain name is the name that your users use to access your site.

Over the break, I dropped my phone on a tile floor and totally shattered the screen.

As an engineer at Airbnb, I do a LOT of interviewing.

In 1986, my uncle Michael got summoned to the offices of the KGB in Nikolaev, Ukraine.

When I wanted to start a github pages blog, github was serving it's page requests on <username>.github.com.

Welcome to my 2025 life update!