Tyrel's Blog

This week I'm at Django Con US 2026 in Chicago.

I've not been blogging much lately, haven't really had a lot of brain power for side projects.

I guess the hip thing to do, is write a year in review. 2024 I have been pretty MIA from blogging.

After a year at my previous place, I felt it was time to move on.

Since my last post, about Djangocon I've been pretty MIA.

I am at DjangoCon 2023 this year!

I've been doing Advent of Code for a few years now, and every year I do it in my favorite language, Python.

I had a bit of a "Tyrel you know nothing" moment today with some commandline tooling.

Trying to write a more prose version of my Resume.

As mentioned in a previous post, I'm on the job hunt again.

You can now message me on Matrix using @tyrel:tyrel.dev.

"Hey Tyrel, I put a meeting on your calendar, let me know if you can make it."

I recently bought four Netgear WAC104 devices, and am flashing OpenWRT onto them.

This week I finally got a machine that is solely to run pfSense.

I have to use LastPass at work, and I store some API keys in there.

I made a mistake with not reading CHANGELOGs for all my packages in Neovim this week.

I haven't had much time lately for blog posts, I've been dealing with bed time routines with my newborn, and once those are done, I get a few hours of alone time for computer things.

My friend Nik showed me his /now/ page, and I find that a cool idea.

Per my last post, I did not succeed in cleaning off the malware.

This morning I woke up to an email from DigitalOcean saying they have scanned my host and on port 8080 was botnet.

As I mentioned in my December post I'm doing a 6502 course on Pikuma.

This weekend I purchased a book from this seller on Craigslist - "Advanced MS-DOS Programming: The Microsoft Guide for Assembly Language and C Programmers" and before opening it, I wanted to get a C environment running.

New Year's eve eve, my main portable computer crashed.

Advent of Code this year is kicking my butt so I haven't been doing any tech blogging really lately.

Short update today.

I put this up on my wiki a bit ago when a friend asked for coffee recommendations.

NOTES This post is ported over from my wiki, so the format isn't as storytelling as a blog post could be, but I wanted it here.

The Setting My neighbor has a Bosch tankless water heater he put in last year.

Django ORM - My History I'm not the best SQL developer, I know it's one of my weak points.

If you have read the previous post, and then looked at this one, there are a LOT of changes that happened.

Was talking to someone about CSS Nostalgia and "back in my day" when scrollbar colors came up. /* For Chromium based browsers */ ::-webkit-scrollbar { background: #2A365F; } ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: #514763; } /* For Firefox */ html {

This was written in 2017, but I found a copy again, I wanted to post it again.

Parsing Epubs Recently I've become frustrated with the experience of reading books on my Kindle Paperwhite.

I took ten years to get my pilot's license.

I bought a house on October 9, 2020.

Story at my previous job: Tieg: Hey Tyrel, I can't run invoke sign 5555, can you help with this?

I never intended this to be a full fleshed CLI tool comparable to the likes of the real GitHub CLI.

It's no lie that I love terminals.

This blog here I want to keep some permanent tech thoughts in more written form than my Wiki where I keep the majority of my written work.

Mom and I hugging in front of the right wing of N43337 It's my brother's wedding weekend and he asked me to take him and his new father-in-law flying.

The other day there was a call to action on the Wings of Carolina slack.

Today I got checked out in a Cessna 152.

Tuesday night I emailed my instructor saying "Hey the Mooney is available Sunday afternoon, could we start getting me ready for a checkout", and he said "sure, book it", so I did.

I actually did a flight on July 7th, but It was only one lap around the pattern.

Today was my first flight with my wife, Lauren.

I can finally rent planes through Wings of Carolina!

I was able to sneak in a cooler morning flight in N8080A.

On April 26th, I took my first flight as a Private Pilot.

When I worked at Propel Marketing, we used to outsource static websites to a third party vendor, and then host them on our server.

When I worked at Propel Marketing, my dev team used to have presentations on things they loved.