The Yakshed

According to my email history, I've been using DigitalOcean since 2013.

Some Definitions Jujutsu (jj on the CLI) is a version control system, like Git.

There's an oft-repeated nerd joke that goes something like: The "S" in IoT stands for "Security"[1] And it's one of those things that's funny because it's unfortunately true.

I run most of my sites, including this blog, off a mini PC in my basement.[1] I have a gigabit fiber internet and host mostly simple, non-media-intensive applications, so bandwidth isn't really an issue, but I don't have a static IP address, so I tunnel a…

I'm far from the first person to make a comparison between carpentry and software engineering.

Or an alternative title: "Man uses astrology in desperate attempt to convince himself he's the smarter sibling" My sister and I are both pretty avid readers, but she handily outreads me by any metric you'd care to measure (words, pages, books, time, etc).

I have approximately two main goals with this project: Become an internet service provider (ISP) for (at least) one person Become a hosting provider (i.e.

This was supposed to be a post about how to migrate domains from Google Domains to Porkbun, but I spent too much time talking about the domains themselves, so now this is a post about domains.

The journey begins.

Chart built with Excalichart, explanation of results at the end SPOILER: This is one of those optimization stories where the dramatic improvement comes from just not-doing the wrong thing anymore, as opposed to any feats of actual performance engineering.

I get nerdsniped easily.

This past Christmas, a friend gave my partner and I tickets to a show.

Here's a bunch of loosely related statements: I want to make my environment conducive to the goals I want to achieve.

I've been writing on other assorted parts of the internet for a while, but never really had a good place to write about the random menagerie of things I've built over the past decade or two.