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In the past month I’ve taken an interest in improving my chess.

It’s a matter of when, not if.

A combination TIL/PSA: since iOS 18 shipped last year FaceTime has both screen sharing and remote control functionality available if both sides are sufficiently up to date.

This week I was working on a QEMU-based integration test suite and needed to customize the base QCoW2 images shipped by the Ubuntu project for use in my test harness.

tl;dr Spilled!

Very briefly TIL that, if like me you happen to run Tailscale on your OpenWrt device, you can extend OpenWrt’s backup/restore script to include its Tailscale state allowing its identity to persist through upgrades or restore procedures.

In the last year I have developed a strong interest in simracing as a hobby.

tl;dr Every Github Gist can be accessed as a Git repository over either HTTPS via their URL or via SSH using the keys you have registered with Github.

I recently acquired a 50 series NVidia GPU and was unable to get DLSS 4 multi frame gen working in any of the supported titles before realizing that HAGS (Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling) is required to be enabled for it to function.

While working on my blog I discovered that some of the image and link sources in different posts had become broken without me noticing.

Another short “today I learned” post from the analytics mines.

I attended BSidesSF this year for the first time in a while and saw Aalaa Kamal Satti and Yuru Shao of Pinterest speak about their efforts on password security for both Pinterest’s consumer and business users.

One constant throughout my past decade has been the presence of a work and personal journal on my desk.

This week at work I had the need to build a small ETL (Export, Transform, Load) process to move some data from PostgreSQL database A (a primary relational database used by our application to serve customer traffic) to PostgreSQL database B (a back-of-house

I recently had the chance to join Guy Podjarny of Snyk to record an episode of The Secure Developer podcast.

Last year I started making a more deliberate effort to make digital memories of everyday life in the form of audio recordings, photos, and video.

Web content accessibility has been on my mind recently as I watched one of the other engineering teams at Intercom in San Francisco undertake to make the Intercom Messenger accessible and compliant with the Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 L…

The following is a list of some of the projects that I’m currently working on and about which I hope to write periodically on the blog.

This is an extension of my last post: A brief musical journey, as well as a number of stories which I’ve been posting on Instagram in recent days.

My name is Patrick O’Doherty.

I’m back!

This weekend I took the opportunity of some downtime and the fact that I’ve deployed a new primary VPS (with the wonderful iocoop) to migrate my blog source to use hugo, leaving behind the Octopress setup I’ve had for a while.

Administrating a single server that’s your sole responsibility isn’t that much of a hassle but anyone who’s shared this responsibility with others or inherited machines manually configured by others knows without documentation will quickly tell you it’s a…

I’ve lapsed yet again in the weekly writing requirement of the Iron Blogger project at Noisebridge and so feel compelled to give a core-dump type post to recount the happenings of the last two weeks.

This week I finished the first version of the barcode scanning flow I’ve been working on for Noisebridge.

It’s been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to sit down and write a nicely thought out blog post, but in the complete absence of any rhythm in recent postings I figured I’d write down some thoughts about the last 2 weeks.

I’ve been neglecting my weekly blog post the last few weeks, but I’m back!

Last Saturday I gave a workshop on Data Security to a small group of Bay Area journalists at Noisebridge.

I started riding my bike to work the other day, and it’s very enjoyable.

It’s been 3 weeks since Noisebridge’s Iron Blogger kicked off.

PSA: Don’t trust your valued data to proprietary products.

I finally, this past weekend, got around to implementing the Iron Blogger group that I’d been hoping to start at Noisebridge before Christmas (better late than never).

I realise it’s been a while since I last posted.

As I write this I’m back in Dublin having been at 31C3 these last few days.

Inspired by the twitter account “Shit Noisebridge says” I set about recently to script together that trains a Markov chaina on the complete archive of the noisebridge-discuss@ mailing list to create a rival account “Shit noisebridge probably says”.