Brain on Fire

I'd often heard about "severance agreements" (or "severance packages") and never really knew what they were -- something to do with the end of employment, involving some kind of payout and some kind of restriction.

Some quick notes on setting up a shared folder between a host computer and a virtual machine, using Debian 13 for both host and guest.

I don't have a smartphone, so I run Signal Desktop on my laptop.

A few years ago I decided to get a routine skin checkup (you know, check out all my weird bumps and spots to see if any of them are trying to kill me).

After my fourth Bontrager bike headlight died too soon, I've made the switch to Fenix.

Yesterday I installed updates on my Ubuntu 24.04 work laptop and rebooted, and was annoyed to find that I was being logged into the Unity desktop, not XFCE.

Over this winter break I've had some more time to work on Cavern, the social journaling protocol I've been developing intermittently for a few years now.

Inspired by Foone's suggestion this week I decided to start serving poisoned versions of my blog posts to any AI scrapers that I could identify—because I don't think it's enough to politely ask them to stop with a robots.txt file.

We have some slightly odd Easter traditions in my household.

I received some Blink outdoor security cameras a while ago but haven't been able to make use of them because they require a smartphone and internet access to set up, and I don't have a smartphone and don't want these things streaming video of my comings a…

I've been working from home for a few years now, and my happiest work environment is the front porch.

With the current exodus from both Twitter and (to some degree) Reddit, there's a lot of discussion right now about what the replacements should look like.

I've seen any number of people defending ChatGPT's use as a tool that can not just write code, but find bugs in existing code.

I've been using Firefox for something like 15 years, so it's no surprise that I eventually ended up with a corrupted profile (perhaps from a sudden shutdown).

The lxml toolkit is a library for working with XML and HTML from Python.

I seem to have accumulated some interesting links relating to agriculture, food systems, and general relationship to the land, and I haven't done a link roundup in ages... so today I'll be sharing with you: Landrace gardening A bank that supports local ag…

As I discussed previously, parser mismatches are an underappreciated class of vulnerabilities.

Yesterday I got inspired to start playing around with Fourier transforms of images, and I'd like to share some of the results.

There's a class of security vulnerabilities that has gotten very little attention until recently but shows up everywhere.

This is a recipe for a 100% whole wheat sourdough with no extraneous ingredients: Just flour, water, salt, and starter.

I've seen a lot of uncertainty and misunderstandings about how to handle IP addresses correctly when developing and operating a web service: What's my user's IP address?