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I set reminders on my phone very often for a variety of tasks – checking the laundry, cook timers, banking things, work tasks, etc.

I now have open source ebook hosting, open source reading apps for my eink reader and phone, a library full of DRM-free ebooks, and self-hosted progress sync.

I’ve been doing more videos on platforms like TikTok.

With Apple releasing iOS 18 with support for RCS, I was ready to have a nice quality of life improvement messaging my iPhone using friends.

I’ve moved from using Calibre-web to manage my ebooks and am now using Kavita which in general works better for me, but I have a decent archive of .mobi and .azw3 files for my Kindle and Kavita only supports .epub and .pdf.

Update 2024-12-22: This is no longer needed as this functionality is built in as a feature called DNS Shield.

I am seeing increasing calls for real life identity to be a fundamental part of online presence, especially in places like Twitter where disinformation thrives.

EDIT 2026-04-18: Updated dead links to point to archived versions of the pages on the Wayback Machine where available Every few months or years it seems like there’s at least a few news cycles devoted to how Artificial Intelligence is an existential threat

So I got diagnosed with depression last year.

Fairly regularly there’s a public discussion on free speech and the first amendment.

I’ve always been interested in business and the stock market.

I made a password change tool to keep your user password and encrypted boot password the same on Linux and made it available on GitHub.

A recurring segment where I make predictions and check on my previous ones. 1.

And now the whole machine, which whirred away so quietly that people had forgotten that it was a machine at all and thought it was just the way the world worked, had given a lurch. – Terry Pratchett, “Feet of Clay” This quote has been stuck in my head ever

Recently I read The Art of Thinking Clearly.

UPDATE: I now have volume control working with some help from CEC-O-Matic.

There is currently a lot of discussion around Signal’s new PIN decisions.

Encrypted DNS is an improvement to end-user privacy and security.

Many words have been spilled covering open office floor plans and the problems they present to both employees and employers.

I’ve recently been trying to reduce unnecessary power usage in my home.

I recently was on the hunt for a new laptop, and after over a decade of *nix/macOS laptops, decided to go with Windows 10 on a Surface Pro 7.

Today I’m open sourcing an app Workdown – you write Markdown and it will be converted to a site, uploaded, and hosted on Cloudflare Workers.

Today I’m open sourcing a shortlink project I’m calling Lil Link that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers.

Overview My home AT&T fiber goes down on rare occasion.

This weekend I spoke at THOTCON in Chicago on 5G, IoT, and the increase of compromised devices with alway-on cellular connectivity being exposed to our home networks.

Android 9.0 introduced native support for DNS over TLS (DoT).

EDIT 2026-04-18: Updated dead links to point to archived versions of the pages on the Wayback Machine where available We measure the economy wrong.

I wanted to take a moment and respond to Troy Hunt’s recent post Here’s Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer.

This week I gave a talk at Ignite Ann Arbor.

Disclaimer: This is not a product of Cloudflare and is not supported or endorsed by them.

Update: Added diagrams for an example If you’re unfamiliar with asymmetric or public key cryptography, a good introduction without the math is available here.

I’ve gotten used to having freeipa-client available in dnf or apt repos, so I’ve rarely setup clients manually.

I have a hypervisor to run my VMs at home and I decided to finally rollout LDAP and Kerberos using FreeIPA.

EDIT 2026-04-18: Updated dead links to point to archived versions of the pages on the Wayback Machine There’s a prevailing myth in popular culture and the tech industry (and others I’m sure) of the “Necessary Jerk” - a jerk who is so singularly gifted in…

I am currently serving all the things out of my home from behind my “Golden Gate proxy,” which is a combination of an nginx reverse proxy, an SSH WebSocket proxy, and an SSH bastion host.

I am a fairly heavy user of ChromeOS.

I would like my videos to be ready to be moved to mobile devices when I want to travel, and things like Plex take too long for my liking.

I’m trying to make everything I do online as secure as possible, while compromizing my expereince as little as possible.

In addition to my Golden Gate proxy providing security for web requests, I needed it to assist in securing SSH requests as well.

I have a rudimenatry Golden Gate proxy up and running using nginx reverse proxies.

Update: I have now switched from TT-RSS to Feedly I’ve had people ask to get all my RSS Feeds.

This is a brief description of my security practices.

UPDATE: Since the writing of this post I have switched to Bitwarden for a variety of reasons.

This is a brief description of my security practices.

This is a brief excerpt of my security practices.

Overview This is an outline for a project I’m working on.