((lambda (x) (create x)) '(knowledge))

It seems there's no lack of complicated things for me to contemplate lately, such is life sometimes.

So, we've found ourselves on yet another detour, I really shouldn't make these so regular but I truly cannot resist.

So just a few weeks late to the party here, it turns out that between work, the 3.24 Alpine release, and "camp counselling" I left myself very little time for actually working in my legacylab.

Like anything I participate in I inevitably take side quests.

I'm wicked excited, it's finally here!

It's not very often that I get feedback on the blog posts I write.

LLM assisted, or even just whole hog generated content, is all the rage these days.

We're back yet again to talk about a topic we've already covered several times over the years, the making of an Alpine Linux based NAS!

This one is inspired by a conversation I had recently with acdw, and several I've had over the years with mio.

This one might come as a bit of an oddity for any long time readers.

So this year for OCC I had this wonderful idea to tinker with several things, some old 100mb Cisco gear, Windows Server 2008, Symix ERP, and really just get nitty gritty with things I've been working with for years now, and some that I've just recently en…

Right, so in the wake of Broadcom's purchase of VMWare was the additional acquisition of the SaltStack project.

I've dealt with my fair share of infrastructure in my days, and usually it's period appropriate.

So earlier this month was the 2nd Rebble Hackathon, a little week long event where a bunch of us got together to breathe life into the "dead" Pebble smartwatch ecosystem.

I just released version 3.0.2 of tkts recently, which is frankly a really cool feeling.

So a while back (apparently October of two years ago?!)

U G H.

I'm apparently really bad at doing anything in a timely manner these days.

This is one I've been sitting on for a minute.

Is this blog becoming a Ruby blog?

You may or may not have noticed that things around here seem different.

We're back!

Picture an online door-to-door salesman showing up unannounced with some crazy thing he claims will change your life.

It's finally spring here in Maine, which means I feel I can safely reflect on this past winter without jinxing it and invoking a Nor'easter upon my poor family.

Let's take a look at a real world problem and build a simple solution for it.

There is this delightful project that first existed as a book, kept up to date every few handful of years, and now as a little web services complete with a simple json API.

Look at that, another post squeezed in right at the end of the year!

I've spent a long time putting off upgrading my homelab's services with SSL for a while now.

Could do what?

As most everyone knows, I'm a package maintainer for my favorite Linux distribution, Alpine.

It's been a hot minute since the OCC ended this year.

This every other day cadence seems to work well for me, so baring a dedicated blog post, or something really exciting happening I think I'll try and stick to that until the end of the challenge.

The first official day of the challenge!

I've decided to try and keep an at least semi-daily blog for this years OCC, instead of trying to do one monolithic post like the last couple of years.

It's been a hot minute since I updated the old blog.

Lets talk a bit about Verkos and the Kubernetes adventure I'm departing on.

Content Warning: Strong language A friend of mine wrote a ChatGPT IRC bot recently, which is great, because now I can say that I've talked to an "AI" on my droid.

Got a quick one this time round, just wanted to do a quick once over on a little Nim program I wrote recently to better glue together Shellcaster & MOCP for podcast playback.

13:46 <~mio> neat music playlist script by the way :) 13:46 <~mio> on your blog post 13:46 <~mio> I hadn't thought of generating playlists on the fly like that Thanks for the praise mio!

This is a short and sweet one, I just wanted to share a simple script I put together to generate playlists for mocp.

Sharing the love on this one, I had to figure this out in a pinch the other day and felt like it'd be neat to share with everyone.

It's the end of the year, but we've been busy leading up to it.

For a while my Droid has been showing its age.

In the pursuit of absolutely asinine levels of dedication towards my experimental workflows I've tried to truly push a Palm PDA into my personal and professional organizational workflow.

I really love Mikrotik gear, it's just super flexible, extremely affordable, and frankly rock solid when configured right.

I recently stumbled on the language Nim.

Over the past two years I've absolutely fallen in love with Golang.

A while back I talked about documenting some of the things I've been learning from my LFCE studying, I think if I've gotten to a point where I feel comfortable writing about a topic then I'm likely prepared to test on that subject too.

It's that time of the year again, we've hit the Old School Computer challenge again!

It feels like it's been a while since I've written anything for the blog, the last post has been up since I did my Tildewhirl interview back in April and there's been nothing but silence here since then.