Tris's Blog

some thoughts about gender and my sense of self

Getting your supporters to send emails to legislators is great, but dropping paper on their desks can be even better!

how to plot nearly every antenna structure in the US on a map in (n) easy steps!

a personal piece about moving away from the city I lived in for seven years

a prayer to the moon

References to a few Alabama Code sections and city ordinances that I find useful to have handy while cycling or planning a ride.

The correct CloudFormation YAML incantations to get an S3 data source showing up in Amazon Athena (backed by AWS Glue).

A list of projects I was once working on to keep track of Huntsville local government.

Notes on my todo list workflow using Taskwarrior; future work.

How to set up and use a hardware-backed SSH key tied to your system in a NixOS environment.

Musings on the 2021 Advent of Code event: how I played, what I thought about the puzzles, my plans for 2022.

How to quickly bypass the usual safety checks when using the Smallstep CLI to get a CA up and running quickly.

Notes on the XML format used to provision Polycom phones.

Notes on making the Debian cloud images work in Proxmox.

How to install and use my MQTT-based Pomodoro system.

Why your 802.11 point-to-point link with a MikroTik device as client breaks periodically and how to fix it.

Various notes on weird behavior exhibited by the built-in Windows IKEv2 VPN client.

Notes on using apt pinning to mix Debian packages from different distribution releases.

A detailed how-to guide on changing your legal name in Madison County, based on my experiences in September 2020 and kept up to date with feedback from the local trans community.

A link to Microsoft's product code / SKU list for Office 365.

Notes on using a self-signed certificate for TLS-secured LDAP on an Active Directory domain controller.

Notes on using a custom response class when testing Flask apps.