Paul's Notes

I’ve written down a new rule (no name, sorry) that I’ll be repeating to myself and those around me.

The Internet has changed a lot in the last 40+ years.

I can’t remember exactly the joke I was making at the time in my work’s slack instance (I’m sure it wasn’t particularly funny, though; and not even worth re-reading the thread to work out), but it wound up with me writing a UEFI binary for the punchline.

In basically every engineering organization I’ve ever regarded as particularly high functioning, I’ve sat through one specific recurring conversation which is not – a conversation about “complexity”.

Years ago, at what I think I remember was DebConf 15, I hacked for a while on debhelper to write build-ids to debian binary control files, so that the build-id (more specifically, the ELF note .note.gnu.build-id) wound up in the Debian apt archive metadat…

PKCS#11 is a standard API to interface with HSMs, Smart Cards, or other types of random hardware backed crypto.

About a year ago, I bought a Projector after I finally admitted that I could actually use a TV in my apartment.

Around a year ago, I started hacking together a machine readable version of the OSI approved licenses list, and casually picking parts up until it was ready to launch.

Last week, I posted about python-sense, and API wrapper for the internal Sense API.

A while back, I saw a Kickstarter for one of the most well designed and pretty sleep trackers on the market.

As some of the world knows full well by now, I’ve been noodling with Go for a few years, working through its pros, its cons, and thinking a lot about how humans use code to express thoughts and ideas.

As nearly anyone who’s worked with me will attest to, I’ve long since touted nedbat’s talk Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?

For the tl;dr: Docker FDW is a thing.

I’ve been using Linode since 2010, and many of my friends have heard me talk about how big a fan I am of linode.

I gave a talk this year at PyCon 2014, about one of my favorite subjects: Hy.

On a regular basis, I find myself the odd-man-out when it comes to talking about how to work with Python on Debian systems.

One of my new favorite languages is a peppy little lisp called hy.

Over my time working with Debian packages, I’ve always been concerned that I have been missing catchable mistakes by not running all the static checking tools I could run.

It’s sometimes helpful to keep your machines using a list of apt archives to use, rather then a single mirror, because redundancy is good.

Some of you out there may have tried to pass flags to a script that was being invoked via /usr/bin/env in the shebang (#!)