Tomasino Labs

My film ratings website is a project I’ve been dreaming up for the last few years.

The search engine has been the de facto method of online discovery since before the web was fully established.

It’s pretty well known that I do most of my daily work inside a terminal.

Large Language Models ( LLMs ) are all the rage.

In a previous post I set up a system to sign the pages of this blog with gpg.

I have unilaterally decided that the planets of our solar system have different days of the week than Earth.

Next month Google is rolling out Consent Mode V2 for Google Tags in Europe and applicable other markets around the globe.

I’m doing some work that requires the use of headphones but I wanted to listen to my audiobook at the same time.

Last night while lying in bed I started wondering how many songs had reached the hot 100 charts for only a single week, and never again.

About three years ago I built myself a recurring internet radio show on TildeRadio.

I recently wrote about CCPA and other state laws and the need for Global Privacy Control (GPC) support on websites in the US.

I learned a new git trick a few weeks ago.

Edited from a photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is striking some fear into the hearts of website operators in the US in much the same way that GDPR has done for Europe.

I use a lot of different tech stacks in my day job.

Recipes Recipes Recipes I had a terrible marvelous idea today!

It turns out that creating a webfinger response at the .well-known path is really easy!

Background Recently I had the idea to cryptographically sign my blog posts with gpg.

It’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) again.

Today I published my first npm package.

Semantic Versioning There are many aspects to dependency hell.

I’ve seen a number of articles recently claiming that dark modes and themes are scientifically shown to be worse than light ones.

I was just reading a blog post about a two-person startup using 28 various tools and services, and the costs associated with those.

Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy.

Color Scheme Options I finally got around to implementing prefers-color-scheme themes on this blog, and my personal one.

Yet another story has released showing the vulnerability of facial recognition software to relatively simple countermeasures.

During this slow week between Christmas and New Years my wife wanted to crochet a lap blanket for my son.

This blog, and many of my websites, take advantage of some of the microformat features available in the IndieWeb - a system of user-centric services & formats to wrest some identity controls back from the hands of the corporate web.

On one of my public access unix systems (tilde.black), I offer pseudo-anonymous access under usernames that are generated from the dictionary.

I’m attempting a setup where I can control a mac at the office from my Ubuntu laptop at home.

In my last post I wanted to lead off with a short animation of the 3D printer in action.

I brought my 3D printer with us to Iceland.

In college I had some brief exposure to the programming language, Ada.

I had a theoretical conversation with a coworker a few months back where I posited that it should be possible to use the HTTP REFERER (sic) header to determine if a link is coming from another site or if it was an internal link between pages.

I bought a 3D printer!

I’ve been able to secure matching permlinks in hugo to the ones that jekyll was generating.

It’s been way too long since I’ve updated my labs blog, and that is sadly for the dumbest of reasons: I broke my jekyll install.

I had a silly thought this weekend.

My configuration: I live in the terminal.

I’ve been kicking around an idea that comments–public feedback systems in general–are not helpful to the development of social systems.

I author this labs blog in Jekyll, but my personal blog uses the Hugo static site generator.

We build a lot of websites with superscripts in pharma.

Recently we’ve had a number of client presentations and pitches where my team has wanted to use video in their PowerPoint presentation.

I made a fairly major modification to my dotfiles yesterday when I revisited the structure and installation by leveraging the gnu utility, stow.

Today I received my first mechanical keyboard, the CM Storm QuickFire Rapid with Cherry MX Blue Switches.

On Thursday, while reading up on HTTP/2 and all the brilliant things it has to offer, I logged into my trusty old web server in an attempt to upgrade Apache and reap the benefits.

Yesterday I put together an extremely basic time tracker on the command line to compliment my other command line function.

I’ve been trying to get back on the fitness and healthy eating wagon lately after my last attempt fell apart because of delicious pizza.

As a follow up to my previous post where I converted this blog to take advantage of the AMP Project, I’ve finally managed to reintegrate comments.

The AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project has been floating around in the periphery for about a year, taunting me.

So you want to learn the way of vim?