Posts on JFR's Musings

I’ve been self-hosting my git repositories for some time, but I’ve just upgraded them to use git-http-backend.

(Originally written as a response to the video Electricity is About to be Like Housing by Hank Green.

The other day, while doing some normal maintenance and removing a few files, I accidentally removed the only copy of a particularly important disk encryption key.

For many, many years now, AWS has been the top source of abusive traffic I’ve actually received.

Google makes it pretty easy to use a service account with domain-wide delegation through their SDKs (spoiler alert, you just download the service account credentials file from Google, point the SDK at it, and then call a setSubject('whoever@example.com')…

I had cause to reverse-engineer the mechanism by which Zebra printers are discoverable, and am documenting the information, such as it is, here.

My back has hurt forever, but why do my legs have to hurt?

Had the displeasure of visiting Quora today, and I want to share with you the answers I found.

JSON sucks.

Compare and contrast: const crlSetAppId = "hfnkpimlhhgieaddgfemjhofmfblmnib" const versionRequestURL = "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?

systemd sucks.

Allow me to show you a comparison, between the enormous two-trillion-dollar web behemoth, and myself: https://developers.googleblog.com/2024/03/build-with-google-ai-video-series-season-2.html DOMContentLoaded: 652 ms Load: 1.73 s https://jfr.im/blog/2024/…

Recently I had the desire to rewrite the timestamps in my IRC logs.

At work, we have one central server running Postfix which accepts all internal email, and sends it out through our email provider (Google Workspace).

For this blog, I’m using the static site generator Hugo, but manually deploying a new build is too boring for me.

This is how I wish someone had explained git to me when I was first learning.