Brian's Waste of Time

I finally put enough of a bow-tie on bdsh that I can use it as a daily tool.

I have teenage kids, and they are possibly dorkier than me, which is awesome.

The two fun problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

Kong is my go-to CLI parser in go, so I used it for epithet.

The Goal We want to set up a real epithet system, end to end, and use it.

I last talked about epithet two years ago, in 2023, when I started kicking around ideas to make it general purpose.

I'm replacing my general/util server at home and want to manage VMs on the new host with vm-bhyve.

I live by Alfred as a launcher and all around insta-utility thing.

I've been lucky enough to get into the Ghostty beta, and am very happy with it o far.

Since Bob asked, I'm cleaning up a system to make using short-lived ssh certificates easy, simple, and secure.

There are lots of tutorials out there, but I want to compile my notes so if I walk away from playing with them again for a few years, I can pick it up again!

I do some volunteer sysadmining for a local non-profit, mostly network management and related things.

I recently redid the DNS on my home network, moving from dnsmasq to Unbound and NSD.

I cannot let 2023 go past without writing anything given it is 20 years of this blog, but an update to Hugo broke things, and getting it to work was just annoying.

Jumped out of order from my earlier checklist and set up some automagic build and deploy.

I've attempted to wake this blog up a couple times, but between Jekyll changing, Pygments changing, and whatnot, it has been more pain than any given post seemed worth.