Justin Vollmer

The past week was once again relatively uneventful, with work consuming a lot of my time.

This past week was pretty uneventful.

This week was, for some reason, slightly exhausting for me, though I can’t point to any one specific event or series of events that caused the exhaustion.

Last week I referenced to trippy, a handy networking tool that I had run across but hadn’t had a use for yet.

This week I ran across trippy, an interesting little networking tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping.

A large portion of this week in the office was spent working through some interesting networking configuration to allow test devices at remote sites to securely access a cloud database… thankfully people much smarter than I were able to assist!

Early this week I set up an old Lenovo ThinkCentre to run a headless install of Ubuntu, and started playing around with some projects I’ve heard of from others, but never used myself.

News articles are continuing to be published regarding Precision Planting’s 2024 announcements.

Overall, this week was relatively uneventful (outside of some stuff at work).

Even though it’s technically a holiday, I had work on Monday, preparing for our conference, and will instead use it as a floating holiday sometime later this year.

Early in the week, I spent a little time to make my Mastodon account discoverable by searching for this domain.

This morning I made some changes to the permalink structure of my blog posts, which inadvertently caused a number of my older posts to reappear in the RSS feeds.

While doing some reading on integrating Mastodon and Hugo this afternoon, I ran across a handy little project by Francesco Maida.

I decided to try something a little different this year.

One day after the tenth anniversary of this blog, and I’m already making changes?!?

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of this website.

Wow, this year has seemingly flown by!

I first saw this trend a little over a month ago from Kev Quirk, and soon after, most of my favorite bloggers had joined in.

Almost all bugs can be a “security” issue.

Something that’s been on my tech to-do list for a number of years is to set up a self-hosted photo/video storage solution for myself that utilizes my home server, and can be easily backed up to an external storage solution if/as needed.

There is something special about using an app that the developer has clearly put a lot of time and effort into, and it shows in the small details, the little finishing touches that make the app a delight to use.

From a blog post by Manuel Moreale: Please, for the love of all things web-related, if you decide to do anything online, get yourself a domain name.

A little over a year ago, I wrote a blog post on a new laptop I had recently acquired to use for embedded development.

This afternoon I updated the format of my reading list.

Until today, I thought that more or less everyone/everything I cared about was on Mastodon now… …everyone except the local National Weather Service, that is.

Okay, I normally don’t really pay close attention to app update sizes… … but why the HECK is the Microsoft Outlook for macOS update 974 MB, and the installed size over 2 GB?

I realized today that I’ve been enjoying the Ivory experience on my phone to such an extent that I’m only really viewing Mastodon in the browser once or twice a week now.

Excited to be checking out Ivory!

From Monique Judge, writing for The Verge: In the beginning, there were blogs, and they were the original social web.

It’s December 31st again!

🎄 Merry Christmas everyone!

Just completed reading my 30th book in 2022, Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow. 📖 It’s been a few years since I read any books related to cybersecurity, fiction or otherwise.

Warning: I have no conclusions in this blog post.

Somehow, even though I’ve known of it for years, I never actually tried TiddlyWiki until today… … and I’m kind of hooked on it now.

I told myself this day would never come.

A little over 21 months ago, I finally scratched the itch that I’d had off and on for years to migrate my website to a static site generator (SSG).

Michael Steeber: The Apple Store Time Machine is a celebration of the places and products that have shaped our lives for more than twenty years.

For a while now I’ve been considering splitting posts on my site into different categories, primarily to allow myself more freedom in the type of content I author, while also allowing readers to filter out only the posts they are interested in seeing.

Federico Vittici, writing for MacStories: With WordleForever, you can put the original Wordle on your iPhone or iPad Home Screen and play the original game (with the same words as everyone else) for years to come.

Author’s note: This post is a deviation from my standard posts which have historically been mostly technology-related.

Randomly found out that NetBSD and DragonflyBSD now have COVID-19… as in, they both now have the “covid” utility that prints out the well-known COVID-19 genome to the terminal… …which made me curious if Arch has it.

Happy Memorial Day!

iOS 14.5 was released yesterday (2021/04/26), bringing a whole host of changes that have been heavily covered on all of the major tech news outlets.

Anyone else here on Fosstodon use Nextcloud News as their RSS feed reader?

I normally operate all of my devices/apps in light mode, unless it’s after dusk (I use auto switching where possible).

I first got the idea for this blog post from Kev Quirk, and have since sought out other examples online to satiate my own curiosity on how people spend their days.

Over the last few years, the general population has become increasingly more interested in fitness tracking, health metrics, and other associated smart wearables.

January 1st.

December 31st, 2020.

Saturday mornings are for… workouts. coffee. upgrading DigitalOcean droplets. all of the above.