Jack's Brain

I’ve been using Himalaya to give my agent swarm email comms, which is currently their main method of communication after my quick-and-dirty messageboard convergently evolved until I realized this was ten times more work than just giving them each an email,

MeshCore is a peer-to-peer encrypted mesh radio communications system.

I’ve been playing around a lot with MeshCore, a peer-to-peer, encrypted, routed radio network run by average citizens using LoRa modulation in unlicensed sub-gig bands (902-927MHz ISM band in the US).

An Uncomfortable Scenario You’re in a foreign country, and you’ve been mugged1, completely — you’ve got the clothes on your back, and nothing more.

I love me a typewriter.

ohai.

And boy that came out well 😍😍😍 Conway’s Game of Life LED matrix with frame

TL;DR No.

Always wanted to build one of these and now I have!

This weekend I set out to build a 64x64 LED matrix version of Conway’s Game of Life.

I scoured the web for an easy-run RFC865 Cookie/QotD server that I could throw into my Docker host and serve a proper DHCP Option 8 on my home network, but none existed so I vibe coded one.

Well, turns out this design (an ouroboros twisted to form a Möbius loop, interlocked with two others into Borromean Rings) doesn’t really exist on the internet as far as I can tell.

Help I’ve fallen down a well [and it’s filled with regular solids].

I was shocked to not find any fidget regular solids floating around the 3D printing/maker spaces, so I made one, open source and parametric using OpenSCAD.

Happy New Year!!

Welp, with the faster site came an unexpected change in how my RSS feed renders, resulting in subscribers getting a LOT of emails.

And in keeping with new things for the upcoming new year, a site redesign!

Three of my four current implants.

Hiking the Accursed Mountains in Valbonë, Albania Howdy!

My PGP identity is verifiable at Keybase, where my GitHub profile is verified, and my SSH key can be further confirmed.

I’m updating my public SSH key; it’s long overdue to step out of the dark ages and move to ED25519.

I had too much time on my hands after work today and yesterday, so I made this silly site to celebrate my new shromps. https://skrimp.lol There’s nothing more to it, except that the shrimp dances faster each time you tap/click it. skrimp. lol.

And the tetrapods and gabions look great, even if the round jar makes the cube looks like it’s melting haha.

I’m starting a new shrimp tank soon and I want to fill it with hollow tetrapods, commonly used for reenforcing shorelines.

I was pleased with my last post on getting TinyLibrary up and running on an ESP32 (and WOOOO got a PR accepted to the ESP-IDF codebase for the standard ESP32 firmware for DHCP option 114), but really wanted something with some more RF and speed oomph.

I’ve been on a big ebook kick lately (currently rereading the first scifi I ever consumed as a little kid, Contact by Carl Sagan).

Last week, I implanted a SmartMX3 P71D321 secure element chip in an ultra-thin, biosafe-polymer-enclosed form factor as provided by the Dangerous Things flexSecure implant in my left arm.

This weekend I implanted an xSIID, an implant that is essentially a copy of my first xNT implanted chip, except that this one lights up when you scan it.

What an awesome review of a side project I’ve been really passionate about.

For years, I’ve had an abiding love of machine code, the fundamental binary instructions that the CPU of a computer understands, ever since I took my first embedded systems course at Santa Clara University.

At any given time on https://twitch.tv, the livestreaming capital of the internet, there are thousands and thousands of streamers playing games, making music, or just hanging out with an audience, talking and relaxing with friends.

My pet hisser Julian on the prowl, with some dubbed Jurassic Park for atmosphere.

I recently stumbled upon a site I wanted to save a video from, so I went to open devtools and check the Network tab for the video source when suddenly the page redirected me to an error page!

Zork is one of the very first interactive fiction games and was released in 1977 for the PDP-10.

If you’re like me (and, in this regard, if you’re not then you should be), you use Google Authenticator or a similar application to generate Multiple Factor Authentication tokens — six digit codes that add an extra step of identity verification to sites y…

Well, after four and a half wonderful years with my magnet, I bid it farewell.

I’ve been diving quite a bit (just finished my 26th dive today)!

A couple weekends ago, I install PiHole, a software package that provides DNS blackholing for your local network, and I was shocked.

…I’m becoming one of those blogs with 6 month intervals between posts.

Hai world.

My latest hobby/focus/obsession has been mead, and man, I’ve been having so much fun sinking my teeth into the art and science — already made 3 gallons and just started a 5.5 gallon batch.

TL;DR: I’ve learned things, built things, got employed at a thing, was sad about and thought about things, and am happy about things.

Today marks the end of two summers of interning with Facebook; I’ll be going away for a week and then the job hunt begins with a mess of interviews.

Hey y’all.

[trigger warning: pretentious thinkpiece] Tonight I was speaking with a new friend and the topic of what we do with our free time came up.

And no, it’s not my brain. nope forcibly shuts down your computer down like pulling out the plug.

Hi all.

…because I make things like this.

Wait!