Michael Was Here

This is the third year I have stood up SneakyNet, my fake telephone company at the Southwest Vintage Computer Festival.

I have recently been doing a lot of work with Cisco IOS Interactive Voice applications written in TCL.

In the last post I showed how my cluster is maintained day to day and using various industry standard tools.

In the last post, I talked about how I setup my Nomad cluster running on bare metal using Void Linux and Ansible.

I recently decided to rebuild my development cluster so that I can finally nail down a few services that I’ve wanted to understand better for some years now.

Its late at night, you’re on a walk, and you see something wrong.

People who’ve known me for a while know that I’m an alumni of a program called BEST Robotics, and that I still actively volunteer with the program.

One of the topics of discussion in my circle of friends we keep circling back to is security of personal, work, corporate, and production systems.

My home network is complicated.

TL;DR - If you’re using USB-C displays with Intel 12th or 13th gen hardeware, its probably a DRI firmware issue in the i915 kernel module.

I was recently asked at my day-job to think about what the global fleet would look like if I had the powers of Star Trek’s Q and could snap my fingers with a flourish and re-form prod into what I think would be better.

Recent changes in high profile open source projects has got people talking about sustainability in companies that build open source again.

I’m involved in a lot of projects both in and out of work, and people have often asked how I keep it all running at once.

Debian has an autoinstaller.

Though I don’t have a huge amount of time for playing computer games, I do spend a lot of time playing minecraft, as well as a number of retro games and point and clicks.

I was recently going through deprecation warnings and doing some housekeeping in one of my personal projects, NetAuth.

I am fascinated by most network technologies, and having spent several years at this point looking at the latest and greatest I’ve now decided to look back at some of the technologies that got us to here.

I’ve seen over the last few days a lot of comparisons being made between the power outages occurring in Texas and the power outages that are an annual event for parts of California.

I recently had the baffling experience of reaching out to a company to ask about commercial support for their product as I was having a lot of trouble getting it installed and working.

For annoying reasons that I won’t get into here, I’m finally building out a home office.

Early and late binding are often discussed in terms of symbol resolution in programs that have symbols loaded from shared objects and static libraries, so what does this have to do with configuration?

Just over 8 months ago I wrote about running the complete HashiCorp stack on top of Alpine Linux.

I am too young to remember the first day of eternal September personally.

Those who are near me for any length of time know that I like open source.

I was recently talking with some people from the open source world about what it means to own a project and this got me thinking about some of my own projects.

I often get asked about why I am always so frustrated with the code that people tend to write.

Recently at work I’ve been setting up a Nomad cluster to take over the production workload in our primary serving cluster.

I’ve just gotten back from the Apollo 11 movie, which I saw in IMAX.

I was recently asked by a few different people about why I have such strong feelings about Python in production on Void’s infrastructure.

I recently decided to try the Caddy webserver project’s implementation of a webserver written in Golang.

As anyone who’s spent more than 10 minutes around me knows, I’m fascinated by software and by the development and management of the infrastructure that surrounds it.

Ansible is a configuration and systems management tool from RedHat.

For about a year now I’ve been working on a side project.

When you download an image for your Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone or other SBC do you ever pause to think about how that image came to be?

I have a lot of computers in my collection from machines I’ve wanted or otherwise picked up over the years.

Into the Void.

First day at Google!

Finally I’m done.

My last spring break and I’m spending it doing a massive network refactor.

Senior design is shaping up just as bad as everyone said it would be.

Twas the night before christmas and not a creature was stirring save an infrastructure engineer.

Its the start of December.

As I imagined getting Void into the T100TA would not be easy.

Its a late night tonight as I setup the honors network for a smooth start one last time.

Well that didn’t last.

I am a staunch supporter of Linux and open source software.

One of the many irons I have in the fire is amatuer radio.

This site is a dramatic improvement over the apache webserver’s default page.